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Phew! it was a long time since i last posted Bago’. Israel keeps me busy.

• Dive into HTML5 – HTML5 guide. looks ok.
• Very simple parallelization with Ruby – not the best implementation i’ve seen, but will work on small scale solutions.
• Ruby’s #inject- i have been using ruby and rails for more than 4 years, and i got how to use #inject only yesterday.
• Ruby’s TempFile explained – Avdi’s share on Tempfile.
• OrientDB – Another NoSQL implementation. supposed to be really fast.
• Rails 2.3.6 changeset – probably my last version.
• Ruby VM shootout – interesting.
• Upgrading Rails 2 to Rails 3 – wuhoo.
• Ruby Proxy Pattern and Dynamic Delegation with ActiveSupport BasicObject – implementation and an excellent walkthrough.
• Ruby’s equality operands – a good read.
• Write-Through Cacheing is an Essential Part of a Healthy Scaling Strategy – great scaling read.
• List of generators for Designers – some are nice.
• Testing Javascript with cucumber – ha! nice.
• MongoDB master-slave installation – howto.
• Feature flipper for Rails – deploy specific features, awesome.

Treasures

• jsChat – a nice chat engine using javascript and MongoDB.
• Google Fonts API – nice, font-face will get a boost from this one. (here are the fonts)
• fancy-buttons – Easily style buttons with beautiful CSS3 features like gradients, rounded corners, etc. Don’t worry the buttons also degrade nicely for browsers with no support. requires Compass though, which is annoying.
• ZeroMQ – java based MQ manager. looks great.
• ShowOff – presentations made simple. wicked.
• Google’s S3? – Storage for developers.
• to_xls – convert objects to excel spreadsheets.
• KingSOA – KingSoa orchestrates a SOA landscape, by knowing where services live and how to call them.
• Linkscape – a library to access SEOmoz’s API.
• ActiveCart – a basic shopping cart implementation.
• MongoHub – native MacOS MongoDB GUI.