Merlin Mann's How to Succeed in Business

From John Gruber and Merlin Mann’s talk on making money by being authentically enthusiastic:

1. Give away more stuff than you think you should, and make it easy for people to get.
2. Focus on diverse secondary revenue streams, and always have your eyes open for new and replacement ones.
3. Don’t do stuff that seems profitable, but potentially messes up the reason people like you.

should be || should_not be

Stephen Eley has done something very clever on the rSpec list, it begins thus:

should be || should_not be: that is the expectation:
Whether 'tis nobler in the parser to interpret
The outputs and side effects of outrageous duck typing,
Or to inherit against a sea of matchers
And by declaration extend them?

And on from there, to a satisfying conclusion.

javascript_named_routes

Fred Polgardy has just released a tasty bit of code that will allow JavaScript to access Rails named routes in a very straightforward way.

Check out his javascript_named_routes Rails plugin.