I meant to get these links out earlier but Kanye interrupted me.

• cloud-crowd
  A ruby gem to assist with doing parallel processing in “the cloud”
• Mac Tips you may not know
  Some good keyboard shortcuts here.
• Acorn 2.0
  Just discovered a new version of Acorn is out. This is my favorite “poor-man’s Photoshop”. Mac only.
• 10 Really Helpful Traversing Functions in jQuery
  If you use jQuery, you’ll want to commit these to memory.

Hate it when I think something will only take half an hour and it costs me an evening. And by the way, note to future me, loading javascript and css files dynamically cross browser is HARD.

• Phiculator, the Golden Ratio calculator
  phi, considered the “golden ratio” and often used in architecture, art, etc can be a great way to make your design aesthetically pleasing. This tool helps you calculate the ratio.
• jQuery Tools 1.0.1 released
  A collection of jQuery plugins/tools from the folks that make flowplayer. I’ve used several of these previously and they are top notch. The overlay plugin addition looks really nice.
• Flowplayer 3.1.3 is out
  Speaking of flowplayer, looks like those guys have been busy, and have a new release of it as well. This is my go to flash player these days. Lots of really nice config options.
• SVGWeb Brings SVG Support to Internet Explorer
  Uses flash on IE to replicate and make SVG a viable cross-browser technology.
• Pretty checkboxes with jQuery
  A tutorial showing some pretty spruced up checkboxes.
• New OS, more pane! (Passenger preference pane v1.3)
  New Passenger pref pane for Snow Leopard.

Only took me 4 days to get my mac re-situated after upgrading to Snow Leopard. Re-situated may be overstating it, actually.

• app_store
  A Ruby module for fetching information from Apple’s App Store.
• James Edward Gray II — How to become a successful rubyist
  A nice interview with Oklahoma’s very own JEG2.
• jQTouch
  A jQuery plugin for mobile development (iPhone, Android, etc) using HTML5, CSS3, and javascript.
• Tweetie-style paging with pageSlider
  A nice-looking jQuery based slider plugin.
• 7 Stages of new language keyword grief
  Amusing. Although I admit having these feelings more with C# / ASP.NET than I do with open source technologies like Rails. There may be something to that…

If it’s not clear by now, it should be. The best thing about the Rails/Merb merger is @wycats.

My Five Favorite Things About Rails 3

• Rotate Images and Stuff with CSS only
  “Did you know you can rotate images (and all other html elements) by using nothing but CSS?” Quoting Johnny Carson, “I did not know that. That’s wild, wacky stuff”
• Collecting Feedback on Your Web App
  Good info from the Prefinery folks about what worked and what didn’t as they’ve tried to collect info from beta testers about their service.
• acts_as_commentable_with_threading
  A drop-in replacement for acts_as_commentable that adds threading features.
• acts_as_scribe
  I know, another “acts_as_…” plugin. This one allows you to track user activity (for a timeline, wall, etc).
• 20 Top jQuery tips & tricks for jQuery programmers
  Useful stuff.
• 5 Ways to Make Ajax Calls with jQuery
  I know I get confused about the different ways to make AJAX calls with jQuery. This clears things up.

• pivotpro
  A gem to automate interaction with Cucumber and PivotalTracker.
• slickgrid – jQuery grid/spreadsheet
  A JavaScript grid/spreadsheet component that focuses on being high-performance and on grid features over data manipulation (that the author feels is best left to the developer). Does indeed look slick.
• CSS Dock Menu using JQuery
  Nice example of a Mac-style dock using JQuery + a Fisheye Interface component.
• Wrap text in Ruby
  A snippet that uses regular expressions to wrap text.
• ColorSuckr
  Extracts color from photos to create color schemes. Great for matching colors to background images.

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.