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• My Rails Toolbox
  A great article about a Rails developer toolbox. A real one. From Servers and Deployment to Plugins, Libraries, Outliers, Hammers and Tape, only good stuff.
  (tags: rails ruby tools development tips deployment productivity reference tutorial web)
• PasWiki
  A Wiki powered by Pascal … weird, huh? I desperately tried to find one, and so did I! Ladies and gents, this is the PasWiki !
  (tags: wiki pascal delphi web opensource to_use)
• PSP - Pascal Server Pages - Multiplatform Web Programming
  “Pascal Server Pages and utilities allow you to write binary CGI programs in easy and comfortable way for the major Pascal/Object Pascal compilers. If you need binary server pages and you know Pascal, PSP (Pascal Server Pages) will help you. “
  (tags: pascal web opensource web_development to_use)

• Selenium IDE: Selenium IDE
  Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests. Selenium IDE includes the entire Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record
  (tags: testing ide opensource javascript firefox to_use)
• Selenium on Rails:
  Selenium on Rails provides an easy way to test Rails application with Selenium Core. This plugin does four things: 1. The Selenium Core files don’t have to pollute /public, they can stay in the Selenium gem or in /vendor/selenium. 2. No need to create s
  (tags: selenium testing test ruby rubyonrails development rails agile javascript tool)

• Google-powered Ruby Search
  (tags: ruby search to_use to_read)
• Getting Real
  The 37signals book, now free online!
  (tags: agile book business design development free web technology programming 37signals productivity)
• GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of extracting RDF data from XML documents
  GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages. The GRDDL specification introduces markup for declaring that an XML document includes gleanable data and for linking to an algorithm, typically represented in XSLT, for gl
  (tags: w3c web_development microformats rdf semantic_web)
• GRDDL Primer
  GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages. It is a technique for obtaining RDF data from XML documents and in particular XHTML pages. Authors may explicitly associate documents with transformation algorithms, typic
  (tags: w3c semantic_web web_development rdf rss microformats example to_read)
• RedHanded » Camping is Still Your 4k Pinkyframework!
  Yes, this is a 4k web framework, all ruby. Gotta check this out!
  (tags: ruby web_development framework rails opensource)
• Yurt CMS
  The Yurt CMS is a content management system designed for web developers who create mostly static web sites. This software package has the following distinctive features:

  * No Database: Content for mostly static sites resides in editable files, not

  (tags: cms opensource ruby web_development)

• Ariel: A Ruby Information Extraction Library
  Ariel is a library that allows you to extract information from semi-structured documents (such as websites). It is different to existing tools because rather than expecting the developer to write rules to extract the desired information, Ariel will use a
  (tags: ruby extraction library programming data web development opensource rails web2.0)

• Redefining content management
  Without wishing to state the obvious, content management needs to be all about the content. However, when most of us think (or talk, or read) about content management we are quick to associate it with a specific technology - the CMS.

  That, my friends,

  (tags: article blog CMS design development technology usability web web2.0 content management)

• HpricotForms
  “Since the introduction of Hpricot, the snazzy and fast Ruby parser for HTML, I’ve been meaning to give it a whirl - the API looks yummy. Now, as I’m doing more testing and validation stuff at work, such a need has come.”
  (tags: plugin rails ruby hpricot testing forms)

• Searching for Information: The Last 50 Years
  A presentation of Joseph Janes
  (tags: article to_read search web_development)
• Findability - A Cyberspace Safari
  Findability
  (tags: article to_read search web_development)

Man, there are some days you just wanna quit you current job and just go work in the USA! Look at this pretty, attractive, incitant offer I got a few days ago:

Subject: JOB IN USA

Good day Sir/Madam,
We inform you about new vacancies in Violent Cooperation Company.
If you are interested in our offer, please, write an e-mail to our manager Donald Albanese and visit our website
[link removed]
to receive a Representative Contract and detailed information about this job.
Best Regards,
“Violent Cooperation” Company

• Flash Video Player
  The Flash Video (FLV) Player can be used standalone, without the need for the Flash authoring tool. The player allows you to show your videos more controlled and to a broader audience than with Quicktime, Windows Media or Real Media. if you do work with F
  (tags: flash video player flv Tools free web)

• IAwiki: IAwiki
  IAwiki is a collaborative knowledge base for the topic of InformationArchitecture. Anyone can contribute, and there are no pre-registration hoops to jump thru …
  (tags: ia wiki information_architecture information reference architecture design development)
• Type tester
  The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its’ primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.
  (tags: fonts typography webdesign design css tools web free)
• Browser News: Resources - Fonts
  This gives information about fonts.

  * User Default Fonts
  * Generic Fonts
  * Common Fonts
  * Similar Fonts
  * Choosing Fonts
  * Downloadable Fonts
  * Samples of Fonts

  (tags: fonts css design web webdesign browsers typography reference)
• Browser News: Resources - Font Samples
  This depicts a number of fonts: * Microsoft’s Core Web Fonts * Common Windows Fonts * Common Mac Fonts * Common Unix / Linux Fonts
  (tags: fonts web css font webdesign design typography)