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Melbourne Analog Blog November 2008

  • No meeting next month, but we’ll organise drinks on Thursday the 18th
  • RailsCamp 4 was teh awesome!
    • Next one will be in Queensland next year
  • Rails 2.2 is out
    • Worth it if you’re using SQL Server for the new adapter
    • Thread safe, and has DB connection pooling, so JRuby is looking cooler
  • FFI lets you call C in a nice way from Ruby
    • Works from JRuby, etc.
    • Lets you do callbacks without writing C
  • Deprec 2 supports Passenger
  • Passenger is getting more popular
  • Craken - Cron meets Rake and Capistrano
  • tabtab is Dr Nic’s cool tool for make shell completion easier and more useful
    • git also has completions for bash, which you should use
  • github gem - command line tools to make working with github super easy
  • GitX is a nice Cocoa git viewer
  • CouchDB promoted to an Apache incubator project. Is that a good thing?
  • twicl is a command line twitter client
Posted by pete on December 1st, 2008

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