07-26-10
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Ruby & Rails
- Rails Best Practices
Mac OSX Apps
- Meld: Diff and merge tool
- Go-oo: Office Suite
- Fraise: Powerful Lightwight Editor for Mac
- Hotspotshield:Hotspot Shield protects your entire web surfing session.
- Synkron: Open Source folder synchroniser
Software
- Cyn.in: open source collaborative knowledge management appliance
- Chive: MySQL database management tool
03-27-10
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Ruby and Rails
Ruby Enterprise Edition and gem path: Updating the Path everywhere on Ubuntu see also post on Stack Overflow
Rails2 and Rails3: So Happy Together
Rails 3: Let ActiveRecord Manage Your Translations
Be pragmatic with your time
validates_as_hostname_label: Checks for valid hostname labels (i.e. subdomains)
Rit: a standalone web application that allows users to edit and schedule content.
eBooks
Designing for the Web by Mark Boulton
Mac Performance Guide: for Digital Photographers & Performance Addicts By Lloyd Chambers
Miscellaneous
Free SEO Tools: Internet Marketing and Backlink Checkers
Vagrant: Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments (using Sun’s VirtualBox).
6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed
How To Node: is a blog featuring projects and tutorials relating to the Node.js project.
03-10-10
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10 golden rules for building web apps, from Fred Wilson
Ruby and Rails
- #gemsday: Share your favorite new RubyGems weekly
- serve: Serve is a rapid prototyping framework for Rails applications. A strict separation of concerns between designer and developer
- StaticMatic: Static Websites, the modern way
- ambitious_query_indexer: Pain-free indexing to speed up your Rails app
- Erector: Erector is a Builder-like view framework, inspired by Markaby but overcoming some of its flaws
- Rapid prototyping with HAML, SASS and Ruby: A good prototyping Workflow
- seo_checker: check your website if it is seo.
- rubys-metaprogramming-toolbox: a really great explanation of ruby metaprogramming
- Canable: The Flesh Eating Permission System
Database
- Susy: A Grid Plugin for Compass
Ebooks
- A Byte of Vim: “A Byte of Vim” is a book which aims to help you to learn how to use the Vim editor.
Software / Apps and Plugins
- S3HUB: Amazon S3 Client for Mac OS X
- Shareaholic: The Easiest Way to Share Webpages on Facebook, E-mail, Twitter, and Lots More! (Firefox Plugin)
- hurl:Hurl makes HTTP requests, perfect for demoing and debugging APIs
- Charles: Web Debugging Proxy Application (Record all traffic between your browser and the Intenet)
- Boxee: Best way to enjoy entertainment from the Internet and computer on your TV
- SimFinger: Screencasting for iPhone
- Storytlr: open source lifestreaming and micro blogging platform
- StatusNet:
- Sharetronix: Open Source multimedia microblogging platform.
- Jolicloud: The OS your Netbook has been screaming for
02-25-10
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Medfoss: Medical Free/Libre and Open Source Software
Ruby and Rails
- importex: Import an Excel file using Ruby.
- Rails 3 Setup using rvm & Ruby 1.9.2
- The Skinny on Scopes (Formerly named_scope): fantastic write up from Ryan Daigle
- The Best Ruby on Rails Hosting Services
- Vim Tutorials on ShowMeDo
- Vim Screencasts on Ruby Head
- Vim Novice Tutorial Videos by Derek Wyatt
- Rails Metrics: Engine for tracking various metrics related to a Rails 3 application
- Quick and easy static pages in Rails
- RubySlide: Ruby Slides and Presentations for Ruby People
- RubyTube: Ruby Screencasts and Videos for Ruby People
JavaScript
- YoxView: JQuery image viewer plugin like Lightbox
CSS and Design
- Html Dog: HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, and Articles
02-21-10
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NoSQL-Database: Your Ultimative Guide to the Non – Relational Universe!
Ruby and Rails
- octopress: A Jekyll blog template
- carrierwave: Classier solution for file uploads in Ruby for Rack, Rails, Merb and Sinatra
- kzak: a web-based jukebox
- JQuery with Rails3
- Complex Nested Forms with Rails and Unobtrusive jQuery
- From Textmate to VIM for Rails Coders
- Simple_form: Forms made easy for Rails!
- device: Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden – ready for Rails3
CSS & Design
- Haml Sucks for Content
- Less.app: LESS CSS app
- EZ-CSS: An easy to use, lightweight, CSS-Framework
- Perfect SignIn dropdown box likes Twitter with jQuery
JavaScript
- jBreadCrumb: JQuery breadcrumb
- editease: jQuery CMS no fuss, no database, no worries
Software
- JustNotes: A simple, beautiful and powerful notes app.
02-14-10
iPhone Game Development Frameworks
- Sparrow: An Open Source Framework for iPhone Game Development
- cocos2d-iphone: A Framework for building 2D games for the iPhone and iPod Touch
- Unity: is a multiplatform game development tool
- D’Jinn: D’Jinn Engine is a 2D iPhone Engine using OpenGL ES
02-12-10
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10 Ways to Improve Your Web Page Performance
Rails
- Bayesian Classification on Rails: Search keywords to find new customers ( for example using Twitter)
- Job-Board: A simple job board app written in Sinatra, Mongo, Effigy, & HTML5
- configliere: Wise, discreet configuration for ruby scripts: integrate config files, environment variables and command line with no fuss
JavaScript
UkiJS: simple UiKit for complex Web apps. Uki is a JavaScript user interface toolkit for desktop-like web applications
Wordpress
- Premium free fresh Wordpress themes year 2009
- Minimalistic clean free Wordpress themes
- Wordpress Optimization Bible
- The Ultimative Wordpress .Htaccess File
- 10 awesome .htaccess hacks for WordPress
Database
- PostgreSQL on Mac OS X: Tutorial to install PostgreSQL on Mac OS X
- Installing MySQL on Snow Leopard
- You can also use them MAMP-Version: MAMP and the Ruby MySQL Gem
- Neo4J: Open Source NoSQL graph database
Software
- RSSOwl: a free and powerful news feed reader
- Gruml: Google Reader for Mac OS
- feedly: feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page (based on Google Reader and Twitter)
- Password Assistant for Mac OS X
- Foursquarex: A Foursquare client for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- ShowOff: the best damn presentation software a developer could ever love
- Sequel Pro: MySQL database management for Mac OS X
- Navicat: Database Administration-Tool
Mobile Development
- TapkuLibrary: Collection of iPhone UI classes intended for broad use in applications.
- iphone style checkboxes: Turn your checkboxes into iPhone-style binary switches
02-10-10
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Ruby and Rails
- Rails3.0 Beta: Links and Resources To Get You Going (by Rubyinside)
- Rake tasks to get database and table sizes
- Facebooker Tips from Elad Meidar
- Is Your Plugin Ready For Rails3? –> Look at Railsplugins.org
- Rails Module: good write up about the new Rails Module
Mobile Development
- rhomobile: the open mobile framework
- BIGFORCE: building iPhone apps without programming
- iphoneseattle: iPhone web App Builder
- iPhone Game Development Toolkit
- 13 Tools Building Your Own iPhone App
- How to Create Your First iPhone Application
- How to Make iPhone Apps
- How To Build An iPhone App: A Guide (from Mashable)
CSS and Design
- 52Framework: HTML5 and CSS3 Framework
- Sexy Buttons: HTML/CSS-based framework for creating beautiful web site buttons.
- Wordpress Constructor Theme: Build your own unique wordpress theme
JavaScript
- jDIV: flexible jQuery drop-down menu
Software
D’Note: All “TODO” and “FIXME” notes floating around your source code are rotting away.
riak: Another NoSQL alternative
02-06-10
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NoSQL-Resources: News, Articels and Links
Jemini-Tutorial: Creating a shooter game with Jemini a Ruby-based framework for game development.
Ruby and Rails
- Webiva: Content Management System (Built on Ruby on Rails)
- Rails3: Beta Release
- New Action Mailer API in Rails3
- Rails3: Release Notes
- Rails3 Plugin and Gems: A maintained list of plugins and gems and their state of Rails 3 ‘readiness’
- Free Peepcode Screencast: Rails3 Upgrade
- Safe_Buffers and Rails3:
- delayed_paperclip: Delayed_paperclip is a rubygem that works with Paperclip and delayed_job. It allows you to easily process Paperclip attachments (such as resizing images) in the background with delayed_job.
- RVM (ruby version manager): Using Multiple Rubies Seamlessly On The One Machine with RVM
- Rails plugin – event_calendar: Show multiple, overlapping events across calendar days and rows
- fakeimage: A dummy image generator a la dummyimage.com, but written in Ruby.
- webtranslateit: A ruby executable, Ruby on Rails plugin and rack middleware to sync your translations between your Rails app and Web Translate It
CSS & Design
- debugging with Sass: Line Comments Make Debugging Sass A Breeze
- Elegant Themes: Free Icon Pack
- Why use HAML (and SASS)? I already know HTML. A nice write up!
JavaScript
- XUI: A simple javascript framework for building mobile web applications
- Rich-Text Editors: List of 22 of the best Rich-Text Editors for 2010 and beyond
- jQuery Easy Slides: Possibly the easiest to use jQuery plugin for making slideshows!
- gMap: gMap is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you embed Google Maps into your website
02-02-10
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Ruby and Rails
- ruby-prowl: Ruby wrapper for Prowl. It’s a webapp and a iPhone app that works together and lets you send push notifications via HTTP to any iPhone that has the prowl app installed
- RailsBridge: Rails3 BugMash Outcomes
- The Path to Rails3: Introduction by Jeremy McAnally
- Rails-upgrade: Automating a portion of the Rails3 upgrade process
- Rails Star Ratings Plugin Comparison
- Moonshine: Rails deployment and configuration management done right. ShadowPuppet + Capistrano
Mobile Dev Links
- Appcelerator: Build native mobile and desktop apps with web technologies.
- mobile-fu: Automatically detect mobile requests from mobile devices in your Rails application.
- active_device: Mobile Device Detector
Ebooks
- CouchDB: The Definitive Guide – A free O’Reilly Media book about Apache CouchDB
JavaScript
- Colorize – jQuery Table Plugin: Colorize is a jQuery plugin to add background color to alternate HTML table rows, highlight a row/column on mouse over, and colorize a row/column when you click your mouse button over it
