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

Official CitrusByte Blog » Automate Your Rails Deployment. some interesting scripts for automating provisioning too.

Frankie Goes To Facebook. 1 gem install, 18 lines of ruby, 2 lines of config, a couple clicks on facebook, and i have an authenticated hello world app.

webmat’s git_remote_branch. i think i need to give this a try.

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

Amazon Rents Out Its Checkout Cart. You can use the Amazon order pipeline for a 2% to 5% cut. I wonder if you can use all payment types around the world or just credit?

Silverback — guerrilla usability testing. really slick app for recording usability testing sessions.

Deploying Rails on Dreamhost with Phusion Passenger. that looks pretty simple.

zerosum dirt(nap) - Clone Pastie with Sinatra & DataMapper 0.9. i’m very eager to try and make some simple app with sinatra and datamapper.

Firebug :: Firefox Add-ons. old versions of firebug don’t work properly in firefox3. go get the 1.2 beta.

LinkedIn has scaled Rails to 1 billion page views per month. i wonder what their hosting bill is?

Splunk Your Distributed Logs in EC2 - igvita.com. splunk always struck me as a cool app.

Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 1. need to read up on what they did to migrations

Processing.js. John Resig ported over a graphics API called processing to javascript and it uses the html canvas. seems like quite the task.

New Relic : Serious about Rails performance. another rails performance / monitoring provider.

TableKit. nice and fast table plugin that does column resize, sorting, and editing. uses prototype though (and not jquery). via paul.

Building a Social Network Site in Rails | Jim Neath. big list of plugins you would find useful if you were building a social site.

On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services. LISA conference paper by James Hamilton, of Microsoft Live, on operating massively-scaled recovery-orientated systems.

MySQL Conf - Memcached Internals - igvita.com. some tips for running memcached.

hoverIntent jQuery Plug-in. very handy for UI that is too responsive.