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• Online Speech Javascript API – Enable your website with speech recognition, a free javascript API.
• Multiple Table Inheritance with ActiveRecord – @hakunin demonstrates how to achieve an STI table layout on active record, using multiple tables, win.
• Optimizing HTML – great post by kangax, a great blog in general.
• Get method called in MooTools – this is why i am now officially in love with MooTools, feels like Ruby almost.
• acts_as_taggable and the CASE problem – apparently, the AAT family is case sensitive.
• Rails quick tip: readable conditional validation – a quick tip on how to make those :ifs look readable.
• A successful git branching model – a suggestion on how to manage Git workflow in a team.
• Targeting IE7 and IE6 with only 2 chars – or, you can simple avoid the support in IE6.
• Automatic timezone conversion in Javascript – Tackling an issue i was long fighting with, great.
• Building iPhone apps with HTML, CSS and Javasctipt – an e-book by Jonathan Stark.
• DelegateClass rocks my world – Split your models to a logically separated units.
• Get CSS3 on IE – yes, it’s a javascript trick to lie in that diabolic browser’s face.
• Using jammit with rails – notes on using the asset packager/minifier on rails, apache rules included! yay.
• Rails and MongoDB resource list – on my next secret project we are going to use it, this list helps.
• Redis and rails practice – who is online? – a tutorail on how to use Redis on a Rails application, loos neat.
• Realism in UI design – keeping it REALLY real.

Rails 3 stuff

As some of you may know, this past weekend RailsBridge held it’s 3rd Bugmash event, focusing this time on Rails 3 integration and actual test driving.

Although i didn’t take an active part in this bugmash (oh clients…) i peeked once in a while to see how stuff are going on and it seemed to me, that people are actually having fun. Lots of people worked hard this weekend and i want to thank them all and hopefully join with a more vivid performance on the next bugmash.

• Rails 3 introduction – a debrief on what actually happened between Rails 2.x and Rails 3. haven’t read it all yet but by browsing it, looks like it’s a good writeup.
• Rails 3 Reading material – a great collection of posts on Rails 3. awesome.
• Customizing your Scaffold templates on Rails 3 – Rails 3 tutorials and posts are starting to sprout like mushrooms after the rain, yay.
• Notes from the field on upgrading to Rails 3 – a detailed overview on an upgrade mission, good to have in hand.

Treasures

• BumpTop – 3D desktop for Mac. Looks nice, works pretty smooth but not sure how productive that is.
• FriendlyORM – noSQL on MYSQL, inspired by FriendFeed’s usage of schema less storage.
• Fog – interact with your Amazon/Rackspace cloud.
• sinatra-pages – a Sinatra Extension that renders any page or sub-pages located under the views/ directory inside your Sinatra application.
• scrooge – another gem to handle money data types as integers.
• BloodHound – Simple key:value string conversion to hashes, with type casting.
• wagn – hardcore wiki, will try this one soon.
• url_store – store sensitive data, hashed in URLs.
• ActsAsSolrReloaded – Solr duals Sphinx, again.
• arid_cache – hardcore caching for ActiveRecord.
• Rails reservation calendar plugin – Show multiple, overlapping reservations across calendar days and rows.