Thanks to everyone who came to the Hackfest last night - we all had a great time! Lots of code, drinks, and good music thanks to our in-house DJ extraordinaire, Rylan. Click through for a list of what was worked on...

Canvas/SVG Performance on iOS

Some quick benchmarks.

Sinatra 1.2 Release

Check out the new features!

Knockout.js

A dynamic UI JS library.

Cleavage

Code to allow a PhoneGap built iOS application to be included in an existing native app.

Extendable.js

JS object namespacing.

Exec.js

Execute javascript in ruby and get back ruby objects.

Goliath

A non-blocking asynchronous web server utilizing fibers in Ruby 1.9

Yepnope.js

Asynchronous conditional JS loading.

Now.js

Client/Server variable and code syncing with Node.js

Quick Left-overs is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.

Spree is a fully-featured e-commerce system available as a modular set of Rails 3 Engine gems. Although it comes with a ton of functionality out of the box, Spree can take a little getting used to due to slight differences in convention from a standard Rails deployment. What we'll discuss today assumes that you've already installed Spree and understand the directory structure. Onward...

Ruby 1.9.2 and Heroku
Heroku announced their plans for full support of 1.9.2!

Comfortable Mexican Sofa
A fancy CMS with a silly name

Loading Spinners

Some examples of loading spinners using only CSS

Git Immersion

Learn the fundamentals of Git

Deferreds in jQuery 1.5

A great tutorial full of examples on the deferred functionality that is new to jQuery

Vim Fugitive

A full featured git plugin for vim

dust.js

Yet another JS templating engine

Quick Left-overs is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.

OAuth made a splash when it was released and quickly became a standard across consumer sites for authorizing third-party data access via an API. Over the last 12-18 months, the draft specification has been maturing, we've seen live OAuth2 implementations released in to the wild, and there's been a ton of activity in the Ruby-verse to create quality toolsets for developing on top of the OAuth2 protocol...

Style Up!

A history of CSS resets.

Janus

Setup your MacVim dotfiles with style!

Relish

A gorgeous UI for your cucumber tests.

HeadJS

Download in parallel - execute in order.

SSL in Rails

Some good tips and information on enforcing SSL in Rails.

Rails 3 Engines

A nice little demo Rails3 Engine packaged in a gem.

Quick Left-overs is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.

Get Your Refinements On!

Using RVM, load up the bleeding-edge Ruby with Shugo Maeda's refinements feature.

Speed Tracer

A neat site profiling tool from Google.

Object Scopes in Rails 3.1

An update from Aaron Patterson on some new features coming in Rails 3.1.

Akephalos

An up-and-comer in the headless browser testing arena, Akephalos uses HTMLunit and is fast as all get-out. Checkout this article from thoughtbot and their fork as well.

Selenium: Headless

If Akephalos isn't for you, try having selenium run headless on your CI box.

Named Arguments in JS

A cool library to add named arguments to your javascript functions.

Rubular

A web-based Ruby regular expression editor.

mod_pagespeed

An apache module from Google to decrease page load times.

Quick Left-overs is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.

Whoa we got behind there for a quick minute. Here's the RubyConf Wrap-Up Part 2! Full report is below the fold!

Continuing our series of RubyConf follow-up posts, here's one with a focus on testing and code profiling. Paul Wilson referenced the infamous "Vietnam of Computer Science" article by Ted Neward. The Elabs crew went over front-end testing and some of the tools they use or have created. Rein Henrichs gave some great tips on making your objects play nicer and Jake Scruggs talked about his awesome code profiling tool, MetricFu.

Collin and I ventured to New Orleans last week to attend the 10th annual RubyConf. Needless to say, it rocked our socks off! To begin our wrap-up series this week, we thought we'd cover the keynote speeches by Dave Thomas, DHH, and Matz. The full report is after the fold...

Customizing Form Elements with CSS3

37Signals wrote up this nice tutorial - it's specific to WebKit

Remote Cucumber Tests on IE

A great tutorial on getting your cucumber tests running on IE remotely

Gem Development

Use Bundler to create your ruby gems and laugh while learning how

OmniAuth

Let your users choose!

Quick Left-overs is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.