blog.newforge-tech.com — Having a staging environment to verify changes adds an extra measure of confidence to each deployment. Git is the primary means for deploying apps to Heroku. For Heroku, a staging environment corresponds to another app. For Git, it is just a branch.
scotchi.net — Localghost makes it easy to switch development host names to resolve to localhost with a status item (i.e. system tray) that adds / removes entries from /etc/hosts.
railsdispatch.com — ActiveRecord 3.0’s big new feature is a brand new finder API that is backed by ActiveRelation, or Arel for short. Arel is a Ruby implementation of relational algebra. This week’s screencast will be a hands-on demonstration of the new ActiveRecord finder A
jsconf.eu — Node.js might be the most exciting single piece of software in the current JavaScript universe. Ryan received standing ovations for his talk and he really deserved it!