Free as in Time

• Long running Threads in Rails and metaprogramming fun. You know, I should just link to Yan’s blog and be done with it.
• Ajax search in Rails
• Book Review: Deploying Rails Applications
• Looking into Rubinius, a new Ruby VM
• Spiceworks: Rapid Ruby, Customer Focus, and Starting a Company

This Wednesday we’re all about theming and theming systems for WordPress:

• A Revolution in Theming: WordPress Theme Frameworks
• 960 Grid System
• LaunchPad, The WordPress Domain Parking Theme
• Prologue theme for a group Twitter blog?

Ok, maybe not all about…

• Tutorial: Embedding Google Newsbar Wizard to WordPress
• A plugin for WordPress (unreleasedat this time), that changes stylesheets if it’s a holiday or seasonal time
• Conditional statement using custom fields

• Testing your ActiveRecord migrations
• Setting The Crontab Environment For Your Ruby on Rails Jobs
• How to setup TinyMCE for Ruby on Rails
• Ruby Plus: Free Ruby and Rails Screencasts
• The RubyFringe conference

http://www.thewebfellas.com/blog/2008/6/9/rails-2-1-now-with-better-integrated-caching

Rails now supports memcache out-of-the-box, as well as other solutions.

Here’s hoping at least one of my projects will ever need to scale.

The FeedWordPress plugin is wildly useful. More on this soon.

At this moment I’m highly caffeinated and trying to understand what’s going on here:

Gems On Rails → ‘gemsonrails’ aka ‘vendor everything’

I think it’s the answer to about 70% of my LDAP connection woes. Or it will be. When I can see straight.

I’m excited about building some new sites using Drupal 6, and decided to collect a few links on creating themes for Drupal 6:

• Theme Template Files for Drupal 6 – That’s lesson 41 from Drupal Dojo
• Theme guide (Drupal 6) – Under Construction as of this posting, but getting there, and certainly worth starting now.
• Some training materials from Mastering Drupal

And here are a few extras I didn’t want to lose track of:

• Drupal Sites that Don’t Look Like Drupal Sites
• Drupal Theme Garden
• Black and Blue Drupal Theme, which [...]