• Securimage PHP CAPTCHA – Free PHP Captcha Script
  Securimage is an open-source free PHP CAPTCHA script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes to protect forms from spam and abuse. It can be easily added into existing forms on your website to provide protection from spam bots.
  (tags: php captcha)
• Insoshi: open-source social networking platform in Ruby on Rails
  Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product!
  (tags: ruby rails opensource socialnetwork)
• Scrollovers – A New Way of Linking
  Scrollovers are a way to quickly and easily add flair to your web pages, giving your users an experience they weren’t expecting.
  (tags: ajax animation javascript webdesign scrollovers design webdev)
• Mindquarry DO – Free Open Source Software Download for Team Collaboration | Mindquarry | The Open Source Collaborative Software
  Mindquarry DO
  Free Open Source Teamwork Software
  (tags: application collaboration development groupware gtd opensource management productivity)
• pixelperfect – Google Code
  PixelPerfect is an AIR application that lets you measure things on your screen in pixels.
  (tags: air application flex)
• visigami – Google Code
  isigami” is both an image search application and screen-saver. Right now it can search from three different image sources: Google Images, Picasa, and Flickr.
  (tags: google photo screensaver photography image flickr search)
• appmenuboy – Google Code
  AppMenuBoy is an OS X application that puts a hierarchical menu of applications in the Dock
  (tags: apple mac osx dock desktop applications)
• unbound imagnation
  tm_syntax_highlighting is a new Rails plugin that allows you to do TextMate-style syntax coloring in your app
  (tags: textmate syntax rails plugin ruby highlight code)
• Tapping participants brillance | DavidCrow.ca
  Whether it’s participant-driven conferences, or providing tools for feedback at other conferences, engaging the audience and giving them the opportunity to connect and share is key to having a successful conference.
  (tags: collaboration conferences unconference toronto)

• SmartHippo – Compare and find the best mortgage rates, read bank reviews – Join the herd. Save money.
  SmartHippo is a community of people like you who help each other to find the best rates and services on mortgage or other financial services.
  (tags: finance innovation montreal web2.0 lead)
• Intridea – Seed Fu: Simple Seed Data for Rails
  Seed Fu: Simple Seed Data for Rails
  (tags: activerecord rails database seed plugin rubyonrails ruby plugins deployment)
• Announcing: Feather
  Feather, a Merb Blogging Engine
  (tags: blog blogging engine merb opensource ruby)
• Picolena – DevjaVu
  Picolena is a lightweight ferret-powered documents search engine written in Ruby on rails
  (tags: document rails search ruby ferret fulltext library)
• gma’s git-me-up at master — GitHub
  Automate common steps when getting setup with git-svn.
  (tags: git rails svn)

• SoundManager 2: Javascript Sound for the Web
  A Javascript Sound API which talks to Flash, effectively mapping most of Flash 8′s native sound capabilities to Javascript. It enables web developers and front-end engineers to programmatically control sound in a cross-browser/platform way
  (tags: actionscript javascript sound flash audio mp3 ajax music)
• Peritor Webistrano – Trac
  Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.
  (tags: admin capistrano rails deployment rubyonrails webistrano sysadmin ruby hosting)
• Homepage – StartupIndex.ca
  StartupIndex.ca is a free, community-based index of technology startups and investors in Canada.

  Make this site more valuable by submitting startups, updates, and corrections.

  (tags: canada startups list)
• easyALBUM
  easyAlbum is an open source image gallery script built with JavaScript.

  This image gallery does not have an AJAX interface but it simply presents the images inside list tags with a Lightbox type browser friendly pop-up and navigation support.

  (tags: css gallery javascript ajax photo images design webdesign)

Half a year after Leopard has been released, we finally get an official Java SE 6 from Apple today!

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds support for Java SE 6

Thanks Apple! Anyway…

As you can see from the description:

This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the default version of Java.

So if you want to make Java SE 6 your default version of Java, there is one thing you need to do:

sudo ln….. OK, no command line this time.

Here is the right way to do:

1. Launch /Applications/Utilities/Java/Java\ Preferences.app
2. Drag “Java SE 6 (64-bit)” to the top of the “Java Application runtime Setting”
3. Save

You could change Java Applet Runtime Version to J2SE 6 too, but please make sure you know you really need it.

Enjoy!

• Qrp
  A Mongrel-based reverse proxy designed to feed concurrency-disabled Rails Mongrels.
  (tags: mongrel proxy rails ruby rubyonrails)
• RubyLearning.com Blog
  Some Security Concerns While Programming In Ruby
  (tags: programming rails ruby security)
• Ruby Reports
  A simple, extensible reporting system built for Rubyists
  (tags: activerecord ruby reporting reports rails library rubyonrails report database analytics chart charts)

• stage
  Stage is a code template generator that utilizes helpers as presenters to reduce ruby code used in views. Of course, contributions are welcome if you like the concept. I would especially like to hear of any code reduction suggestions.
  (tags: generator merb plugins rails ruby scaffold)
• schleyfox’s wikipedia-api at master — GitHub
  Ruby wrapper over the Wikipedia API
  (tags: ruby wikipedia)
• www.apifinder.com – the essential directory for application programming interfaces
  APIFinder is a growing index of various application programming interfaces (APIs). An API provides a set of instructions that you can use to make new software interoperate with existing applications.
  (tags: api programming development reference)
• Jake Scruggs: Dead Simple Rails Metrics with metric_fu
  Dead Simple Rails Metrics with metric_fu
  (tags: performance rails metrics ruby)

• Idubee
  Idubeeis an online spreadsheet application built with Adobe Flex framework. Currently it’s in alpha stage but it’s already pretty functional application. Please, log in to try it (currently by invitation only)
  (tags: spreadsheet flex)
• http://www.alivepdf.org/
  ActionScript 3 Open-Source PDF Library
  (tags: actionscript3 air as3 component development flash flex actionscript pdf opensource library)
• wForms – A Javascript Extension to Web Forms – The Form Assembly – The Form Assembly
  wForms is an open-source, unobtrusive javascript library that adds commonly needed behaviors to traditional web forms without the need for any programming skill.
  (tags: accessibility javascript ajax web2.0)
• BrainBuster – Relevance Open Source – Trac
  BrainBuster is a logic captcha for Rails. A logic captcha attempts to detect automated responses (i.e., spambots) by asking a simple question such as a word puzzle or math question.
  (tags: captcha plugin plugins programming rails ror ruby rubyonrails)
• Building a Social Network Site in Rails | Jim Neath
  Building a Social Network Site in Rails
  (tags: rails ruby socialnetworking rubyonrails development)
• LearnHub Integrates CC Licensing – Creative Commons
  (tags: LearnHub CC creativecommons)
• Subject to Change | DavidCrow.ca
  Primary design principles:

  1. Wear it during sex.

  (tags: Toronto Design)
• GitHub RubyGems
  sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/
  (tags: gem git ruby github gems rubygems library)

• almost effortless » Automatically Creating, Loading, and Migrating your Database (with magic!)
  Automatically Creating, Loading, and Migrating your Database (with magic!)
  (tags: activerecord database rails rubyonrails migrations rake ruby)
• jbarnette’s johnson at master — GitHub
  JavaScript with a creamy Ruby filling.
  (tags: javascript ruby)
• Tender Lovemaking » Blog Archive » Take it to the limit one more time
  ruby wrapper around Mozilla’s Spidermonkey. The project is coming along quite nicely. Ruby objects can be passed in to javascript land, and javascript objects can be passed back in to ruby land.
  (tags: javascript ruby bridge)
• From Git to Darcs, from Hpricot to Rubinius, from Erlang to Python, from OS X to Emacs, from sweat to practices. How to use ActiveRecord fixtures with Namespaced::Models
  How to use ActiveRecord fixtures with Namespaced::Models
  (tags: ruby rails rubyonrails activerecord)
• CopyCamp | An unconference for artists about the Internet and the challenge to copyright
  Registration for CopyCamp 2008 is now open!. Space in the event is very limited so we encourage you to act early so you won’t be disappointed.
  (tags: canada conference copyright creativecommons conferences copycamp)

• All About Agile: eXtreme Programming Versus Scrum
  So which is right for you, eXtreme Programming (XP) or Scrum?
  (tags: agile xp scrum)
• Dilbert.com – The Official Dilbert Website with Scott Adams’ color strips, Dilbert animation, mashups and more!
  (tags: comic comics humor dilbert humour creativity)
• markItUp! Universal Markup Editor
  markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.

  markItUp!

  (tags: ajax jquery javascript editor wysiwyg markup)
• What’s up in Ruby?
  (tags: rubyonrails searchengine ruby rails)
• Timetoast Timelines | Create timelines, share them on the web.
  Timetoast is a great way to share your past, or even your future…

  Creating a timeline takes minutes, it’s as simple as can be.

  (tags: history interactive visualization timeline rubyonrails flex)
• gdocsuploader – Google Code
  Max OS X application to allow for easy and quick uploading of documents into Google Docs.
  (tags: mac google googledocs osx uploader)
• Antares Traders Blog » Sketch Programming: A Precursor to Test Driven Development
  Sketch Programming: A Precursor to Test Driven Development
  (tags: bdd programming tdd testing ruby rails)
• skwpspace – Useful git commands and quirks
  Useful git commands and quirks
  (tags: git howto tips versioncontrol scm)
• Shopify’s active_shipping at master — GitHub
  Interface with the web services of various shipping carriers. The goal is to abstract the features that are most frequently used into a pleasant and consistent Ruby API. Active Shipping is an extension of Active Merchant.
  (tags: ecommerce plugin rails shipping shopping)
• cfis : How to Profile Your Rails Application
  How to Profile Your Rails Application
  (tags: rails performance profiling ruby optimization rubyonrails programming development benchmark)

• IExpenseOnline.com
  (tags: finance financial flex money showcase)
• Import Gmail Contacts using Ruby on Rails | Atlantic Dominion Solutions
  Here is a quick tutorial to get up and running in ruby on rails with the Gmail Contacts API.
  (tags: authentication gmail rails google ruby contacts api rubyonrails programming development)
• tranexp
  Translates words or phrases from one language to another, using tranexp website
  (tags: gem language programming rails ruby translate translation translator)
• RDoc Documentation
  (tags: algorithms comparison ruby text library programming gem)
• Stone: Dead-Simple Data Persistence
  For small applications, a database can be overkill for storing your data in a consistent and organized manner. Therefore, Stone was built to provide plug-and-play data persistence for any application or framework. It is fast, and it is easy and good.
  (tags: ruby database persistence rails orm merb rubyonrails gem)
• InfoQ: Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications
  Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications
  (tags: flex programming ria adobe actionscript)
• Slapp: A simple chat wall Merb tutorial.
  Welcome to the Slapp tutorial. The primary goal here is to gently introduce the major components of the Merb micro-framework by building a simple chat wall style application.
  (tags: merb tutorial ruby chat development programming)
• 7 soon to be released Ruby and Rails books | Zen and the Art of Programming
  7 soon to be released Ruby and Rails books and more in comments
  (tags: ruby books rails rubyonrails)