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RubyManual.org is a nicely organized, searchable documentation reference for the Ruby language (it’s about time). I cam across it this morning and put together a little bookmarklet that will let you search the manual really quicky. Just drag the following to your toolbar:Ruby Manual LookupThen you can just click the bookmarklet, enter your search string, [...]

I presented at RUM tonight about my experiences deploying two Rails apps (Feedmarker & Teacher!). Here are some links I accumulated while researching the presentation (and troubleshooting my apps):
http://railsexpress.de/blog/http://weblog.textdrive.com/article/175/rails-optimizing-resource-usagehttp://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails#Switching_to_FCGI_with_Dreamhosthttp://convergentarts.com/pages/fastcgihttp://duncandavidson.com/essay/2005/12/railsdeploymenthttp://work.alexyoung.org/archives/102/dreamhost-and-rails-500-errorshttp://work.alexyoung.org/archives/134/getting-started-with-rails-optimisationhttp://weblog.textdrive.com/article/175/rails-optimizing-resource-usage

Pascal over at nanoRails has a good walkthrough of how to include TextLinkAds in a Rails site, complete with caching. Also check out his copy of the Rails 1.1 Cheat Sheet.

Ok folks, let’s keep this orderly; try to contain your emotions. Saddam Hussein’s novel, already a bestseller in Jordan, is being released in Japan. And we all know what that means: it’ll be at your local Barnes & Nobl within a month.
The historical novel depicts ancient tribal warfare and includes chapters entitled “The Foreigner Who [...]

Ok, this is just silly. Microsoft has put up a page on the Windows Vista Web site that is meant to help laypeople (like me) “get ready” for the release of the long-awaited (and long-delayed) next incarnation of Windows. Here’s a snippet:
Getting ready for Windows Vista, available in early 2007, means choosing the edition that’s [...]

The Whiny Nil is a blog about web development, creativity, and fun. In the next few weeks I’ll move most of the non-Feedmarker related stuff off of this blog and over to The Whiny Nil. I’ll continue posting here on the Feedmarker Blog, but I’ll try to limit the content a little more and stay [...]