My bookmarks for 07/23/2010

• Resque - Background Job Scheduler

  "Resque is a Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later."

  tags: ruby redis resque queue jobs

• Clockwork - Cron Replacement

  "Clockwork is a cron replacement. It runs as a lightweight, long-running Ruby process which sits alongside your web processes (Mongrel/Thin) and your worker processes (DJ/Resque/Minion/Stalker) to schedule recurring work at particular times or dates. For example, refreshing feeds on an hourly basis, or send reminder emails on a nightly basis, or generating invoices once a month on the 1st."

  tags: clockwork cron ruby system administration

• Bullet

  "The Bullet plugin/gem is designed to help you increase your application’s performance by reducing the number of queries it makes. It will watch your queries while you develop your application and notify you when you should add eager loading (N+1 queries), when you’re using eager loading that isn’t necessary and when you should use counter cache."

  tags: rails ruby Ruby on Rails performance activerecord

• Redcar

  Redcar is a text editor for programmers written in JRuby. It supports Textmate themes and snippets. Everything is a plugin and you can write new plugins and commands in Ruby.

  tags: ruby editor textmate jruby redcar

• The Great Ruby Shootout (Windows Edition)

  The implementations tested were:
  
  * Ruby 1.8.7
  * Ruby 1.9.1 p378
  * Ruby 1.9.2 dev
  * JRuby 1.5.1
  * IronRuby 1.0 x64 for .NET 4.0
  

  tags: ruby windows benchmark

• Stashboard: The open source status dashboard

  "Stashboard is a status dashboard for APIs and software services. It's similar to the Amazon AWS Status Page or the Google Apps Status Page. Stashboard was originally written by Twilio to provide status information on its Voice and SMS APIs. Stashboard is designed to provide a generic status dashboard for any hosted service or API. The code can be downloaded, customized, and run on any Google App Engine account."

  tags: dashboard python web development services

• Ruby on Rails CMS - Refinery CMS

  "Manage Your Site. Easily.
  Refinery is an easy way to manage your custom website.
  And when we say easy, we mean it."

  tags: rails ruby Ruby on Rails refinery

• An Introduction to Refinery CMS – A Rails Content Management System

  "Refinery CMS is an open source Ruby on Rails CMS for small businesses. The project was originally closed source for 4 years at Resolve Digital until it was finally released to the open source community in mid 2009. Refinery focuses on doing things "the Rails way" where possible. This means you don't have to learn too much to start theming it and building your own custom plugins."

  tags: cms refinery ruby rails Ruby on Rails

• 960 Grid System Photoshop Actions | Johnny Nines

  "Do you use a grid for your web designs? Do you use the 960 Grid System? Well if you do, I have provided a set of Photoshop actions for you to download.
  
  These actions will create a Photoshop document ideal for laying websites out in 12, 10, 8, 6 and 4 columns. "

  tags: photoshop actions 960Grid css web design

• Apt-fast and Axel: Faster apt-get Installations and Upgrades  | Ubuntu Geek

  "Apt-fast script that combines the power of the axel download manager with the stability of apt-get."

  tags: apt ubuntu debian system administation

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.