links for 2008-02-19

Shorty is a simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. You install Shorty on your server, so the links you create with it never go away.

ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface.

Creating OSGi bundles

Functional Programming For The Rest of Us

Roundup: Scala for Java Refugees

USPS Track is a plugin which allows you to track US Postal Service packages easily from your Rails app.

A collection of RSpec Matchers focused on specing Ruby on Rails projects

ZenTest release boasts an improved cascading configuration model that works well for subclasses (like those ship with RSpec) and allows users to override the mappings of specs (or tests) to code as well as the list of files that get ignored by autotest.

When you create or import an app with Heroku, it’s already live on the web. No configuration or deployment necessary.

Piston is a utility that eases vendor branch management. This is similar to svn:externals, except you have a local copy of the files, which you can modify at will. As long as the changes are mergeable, you should have no problems.

Braid, formerly known as giston, is a simple tool to help track git and svn vendor branches in a git repository.

It’s similar to piston but it’s for git.

respond_to.email, or how to handle incoming emails in rails RESTfully

You’ve reached the central repository for cheat, the RubyGem which puts Ruby-centric cheat sheets right into your terminal.

This tutorial was built and tested using rails version 2.0.2. Features covered include activation, changing passwords, forgotten passwords, enable/disable users, roles and OpenID.

It’s a rails plugin, invoked via rake tasks. After installing the plugin and modifying a few lines in a config file, you can have your application backing up both its database and static files to Amazon S3 within minutes.

XRAY is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6+, and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page.

Create your family tree on line

VA4U provides comprehensive international registers of our Virtual Assistant (VA) Members. Each Virtual Assistant has their own personal web page and directory where they describe the services that they offer and details so you can contact them.