NeverBlock. co-routines for ruby. requires ruby 1.9.

Google releases serialization scheme | The Register. This Dziuba guy is hilarious. “Scalability: the problem that tens of thousands of engineers yearn for, but only six actually have.”

Hadoop: When grownups do open source | The Register. that’s probably the best thing i’ve ever read about programming.

a canadian startup » Well.ca: A Shift to Agile-ish development. ali pokes at some golden cows.

Codefluency: Migrating to Ruby 1.9. a list of what’s probably the big gotchas. and hash will now preserve insertion order. random.

The Thing About Git. about solving the “tangled working copy” problem. nice. via ram.

Git with Rails Tutorial on Vimeo. also about how to use it with deployment.

Riding Rails: Rails is moving from SVN to Git. hosted on github and using lighthouse for tracking. git is clearly the new hotness.

Adapting Ambitiously — err.the_blog. this might actually be useful for all the SOAP mapping i do.

play/type blog. starling and asynchrous tasks in ruby on rails. in case you have some heavy lifting to do with your rails app.

Data Store API documentation – Facebook Developers Wiki. this looks interesting. it’s basically an objectspace storage. has functionality to add associations between object types like database foreign keys but also define whether they’re symmetrical or asymmetrical. via anton

21 Merb Links, Tutorials and Other Resources. really time to give this a try.

Nimble Method: Guerrilla’s Guide to Optimizing Rails Applications. in case you really care about rails perf.

Snipplr – Code 2.0 “Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day. Best of all, it lets you share your code snippets with other coders and designers.”

merb + datamapper + noob: quick start. i should give this a whirl.

James on Software: Why Distributed Version Control Matters to You, Today. an argument for using git for version control. via ram.

Thrudb – faster, cheaper than SimpleDB. create a scalable distributed datastore with memcache and this disk+S3 storage solution. uses facebook’s thrift as well. tobi has a post on getting this setup on OSX.

Beanstalk Messaging Queue | Ruby on Rails for Newbies. a simple message queue example with rails using beanstalkd.

RubyGems 1.0.0 Released. and ‘require_gem’ is no longer supported.

uTest Gets $1.7M for Crowd-Sourced Quality Assurance. Looks like an interesting product as full-time QA staff isn’t viable for a lot of small/medium-size companies.