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.

Amazon Web Services Blog: Storage Space, The Final Frontier. Amazon will be launching mountable volume storage to EC2 soon enough. rightscale has a nice post of why this is useful.

Overview — Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails). it has officially launched. i should see if this will work on 1and1.

jQuery.ScrollTo. this guy wrote a bunch of well done plugins for doing in-page scrolling.

thoughtbot: Shoulda testing plugin. rails plugin for testing. seems a lot lighter than rspec.

Restful Authentication with all the bells and whistles - Rails Forum. a very thorough article on authentication in rails.

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

Ambling. rails plugin to easily generate data (and config) for amcharts.

Ryan’s Scraps: What’s New in Edge Rails: Dirty Objects. i’d find this even more useful as a jquery plugin.

Scout - Web Monitoring and Reporting Software. host monitoring solution that uses ruby.

DebugBar - IE extension for web developer. basically firebug for IE.

Flexigrid. nice jquery grid.