Andy Ferra

New Rails Plugin: has_excerpt

It's a super-easy way to create an excerpt of an Active Record field for posts and such.

Stop by github page to learn more.

Visualize your Twitter following with Twittersheep

Just came across this sweet little app that helps you visualize your Twitter following by scraping the bios of your subscribers. It's called Twittersheep.

~ via Bre Pettis | I Make Things

Event Delegation in jQuery

Came across this excellent screencast on the subject.

I really like this fellow's blog in general -- lot's of good front-end stuff.

Friendly Fires 'Skeleton Boy' by Clemens Habicht

Came across this awesome video on +KN | Kitsune Noir.

RubNub == NerdyBliss #=> true

Last night at Gangplank I was sitting next to Remi and I saw him typing something like this in his address bar:

gith blackbox

After he hit enter and I saw github search results appear on his screen I asked exactly what black sect he belonged to.

He assured me that it was in fact not Satan's work but rather something called YubNub.

Somehow that was less helpful... at least at first. YubNub describes itself as "a (social) command line for the web". Basically, people (including you) create commands that can be passed to YubNub and get parsed into useful actions.

For example you can type:

ls google

... and get a listing of all the commands that have to do with Google. And, It appears to do way more than that.

So that brings me to RubNub which is the mayonnaise in this sandwich of awesomeness.

RubNub is a Firefox plugin that passes your address bar input through YubNub. So, you basically end up with a command line in FF.

It's like having every search bar engine installed (including one's that don't exist) and it's much faster because you don't touch the mouse.

Definitely worth checking out.