Oh hai Friday! Thank God ur here! (If I’m resorting to lolcats you know that’s a sign of a long week)

• Text Rotation with CSS
  An alternative css trick to the Date Display with Sprites technique that I posted a link to a few days ago. This one rotates text using pure css – no images required.
• How To Develop a jQuery Plugin
  A nice tutorial for getting started making your own plugins.
• Working With Multiple Ruby Versions Has Never Been This Easy
  They’ve created a ruby switcher that can install and switch between various flavors of ruby. Switching can be done per terminal shell. Looks incredibly useful.
• ViewLikeUs – Check Sites in Various Resolutions!
  An AJAX powered site that allows you to test how your website will look with various browser resolutions. OSIM

About to do the whole undress to get through security at the airport thing. Not sure why I even bothered to get fully dressed this morning.

• Date Display Technique with Sprites
  Cool css trick that might be useful elsewhere as well.
• Chroma-Hash
  An interesting experiment (using jQuery) to create secure visual feedback for password fields.
• Getting Started with Orbited
  An introductory tutorial to Comet and Orbited
• Supporting IE6 – a poison chalice or the holy grail? | Building the real-time web
  A different take on the, er, advantages, to supporting this awful browser.

Went from 110 degree Texas heat to 70 degree Colorado. A nice juxtaposition.

• An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day
  If I had the discipline to put this plan into action, I probably wouldn’t need the plan, but still…
• Top 25 Apps for Designers and Web Developers (on the iPhone)
  Some useful tools for us lucky folks that fall into the categories of web developer and iPhone owner.
• acts_as_taggable_on_steroids was REALLY slow [Snippet] « elc technologies
  Not only a cautionary tale for those using acts_as_taggable_on_steriods – this has some handy techniques for improving performance on your MySQL db.
• Ramen Profitable
  Good article, although, as Graham runs a venture firm, he is heavily biased toward the idea that startups should seek investors at some point.

How did I survive three decades without coffee?

• Load Impact – Free web site load test
  A service for load testing your website. Starts at the great price of free for “low load level” testing (whatever that means) up to $99 for advanced level testing (5000 users).
• Can’t Get Approval for your App? Sell the Source Code
  Interesting way to make lemonade from lemons. Probably not a significant market here, but who knows.
• Plugin Review: WordPress Console
  Review of a very irb-like WordPress Console plugin for working with php + WordPress. Thumbs way up!
• Better Password Inputs, iPhone Style
  Use jquery + css to display password inputs iPhone-style.
• announcement_fu
  A Rails plugin for site-wide announcements. Currently in “pre-beta,” but something I’m keeping an eye on.

A 7-hour drive ahead with a 2 year old. Hmm, I’d rather be debugging.

• jQuery Before/After Plugin
  Creates an interesting slider effect that can be used on before & after pictures.
• Prefinery: Beta Management Software
  SaaS app for creating and managing beta invites for your application. Looks like you need an invitation code to use it as apparently it is still in…er, beta.
• Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
  Brilliantly poignant. If I’m tasked with setting a meeting, I always try to set the time near lunch or the end of the day. Otherwise my morning or afternoon is effectively shot.
• Sass Never Forgets – dead-center mixin
  A sass mixin for centering a div vertically and horizontally. I can never remember this technique either Jerod.
• feedback plugin
  A Rails plugin that adds an Get Satisfaction style Feedback button to your app. Feedback results are mailed via ActionMailer.

Eagerly awaiting a few books from Amazon. Hopefully they don’t come to my house and steal them while I’m sleeping.

• The Rails Way: Do it Later With Delayed Job.
  If you struggle, like I sometimes do, to identify good candidates for async jobs, Koz advises “to look through all your after_save, after_create and after_destroy methods, and evaluate which of them could be off-loaded.” Good stuff.
• Rip 0.0.2
  Second alpha of rip pushed. Starting to see this used some in the wild.
• Consuming OAuth intelligently in Rails
  OAuth plugin was updated today. Here’s a good guide for consuming multiple OAuth services like Twitter, etc in a DRY way.
• Coding Horror: Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers
  Too true. Although I will say that I worry much more about installing software for my wife than I do about myself. My expectations are usually low.
• Giles Bowkett: Do You Believe In Magic?
  I don’t think language features should be “off-limits” because they are “magic,” but there is definitely such a thing as being too clever.

Tuesday? Why does it feel like Friday already…

• Two Must-Read Books for Micropreneurs | Software by Rob
  I read Bob Walsh’s first book – Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality – and it was top notch. Pre-ordering The Web Startup Success Guide today…
• jquery line-through
  A jquery plugin for creating an animated line-through. Hard to imagine a use case for this, but it is sexy.
• enumerate_by
  A Rails plugin that allows you to create pseudo-enumerations. Handy.
• Bridging desktop and browser with Swell’s native Drag and Drop implementation
  A newish javascript framework that has a lofty goal of providing cross-browser drag & drop support between browser and desktop. Looks like they are making progress.