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Paul Graham on Building Stuff.
37 Signals on doing the same

Try them all!

The future is parallel. No pretending otherwise when NYTimes is writing about it. Erlang, here I come…that is, if I ever get around to finishing this.
I suppose I could also just listen to Paul Graham and relax…
Except in special kinds of applications, parallelism won’t pervade the programs that are written in a hundred years. [...]

BDD is quite fun (ok, I’m a dork). Nice presentation from the Rspec gang at the most recent Ruby conference.

Ezra posted an excellent explanation of his Merb framework late yesterday.

Bamboo blog has some good tips on database optimization for Rails apps.
Adam Keys on creating micro-apps using existing infrastructure and APIs like Foamee does with Twitter.
Good presentation on application interface design..
New Rails restful help with the plugin resource_this.
40 design books from Smashing Magazine.
Oracle has built a JRuby application Oracle Mix.

Great article on tools for making social networking sites more portable.
Corkd’s use of microformats is also covered in greater depths in a recent microformats book

Interesting take on some issues with managing multiple social networking sites.

Two interesting recent explorations of features gone awry.
As well as interesting counterpoints (or opinions) from Donald Norman, Joel On Software and the always delightful Zed Shaw.
Random side note: it’s quite cool all of the things one can do with Mongrel…Merb is a good example of using Mongrel handlers to great affect. Even better, [...]