• a jQuery ‘jumpstart’ application – test your jquery plugins on this web app, cool idea.
• exposing MongoDB REST/HTTP interface – a good discussion on the google group.
• FactoryGirl gets callbacks – thanks to @fowlduck the magnificent.
• A detailed list of Rails based CMS applications – thanks to the glorious Mike Gunderloy
• Static sites with mustache – a brief tutorial.
• Checking your Javascripts with JSLint on Rails – howto + plugin.
• Setting up Amazon’s RDS on Heroku – just to make a point, i love heroku.
• Introduction to MongoDB – if you haven’t jumped that train yet.
• Document templates for Freelancers – a list of documents (contracts, proposals) that you might need.
• 20 MySQL best practices – useful.
• Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails – from Github, which it may not be nice to say.. but i’m not sure they are the ones that should be telling others how to scale and stabilize an app. :)
• Coding semantic templates – make your HTML_fu more powerful.
• Scala blog for fun – Twitter uses it, so it’s not for “fun and profit”.
• MapReduce lecture – Other good stuff on that YouTube channel.
• Hadoop on Twitter – fun at Twitter.
• Creating a web application from scratch – design-wise.
• Authenticated S3 GETs for private objects with Paperclip – just when i needed it.
• Bubble effect in CSS – like the MacOS dock. awesome.
• Converting Rails applications from MySQL to PostgreSQL – some Pivotal awesomeness.
• Async Reads and Async Writes resources list – Great list of tools and tutorials from Dix’s Rubyconf presentation.
• Generating zip files with Rails, paperclip and Nginx – i really need to checkout nginx.. well, if Heroku will fail me.

Treasures

• days_and_times – Natural language method chaining for Time, Durations and the like.
• awesome – a Redis implementation in node.js
• pancake – a Rack rack.
• ruby-gmail – Gmail interaction made fun.