links for 2007-12-20

Technology
[Heroku](https://heroku.com/) A cool idea for hosting your Rails applications. You can even edit your code on-line. (tags: [rails](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/rails) [hosting](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/hosting)) [Overview](https://geminstaller.rubyforge.org/index.html) A great utility for managing your gems, especially when going to production. (tags: [rails](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/rails) [gems](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/gems)) [Heroku - YamlDB Plugin](https://opensource.heroku.com/) Nice plugin for manager database configuration in a .rb file. This...

links for 2007-12-16

Technology
[Carl Mercier?s blog ? Blog Archive ? How to fix that Rubygems mess on Leopard](https://blog.carlmercier.com/2007/12/14/how-to-fix-that-rubygems-mess-on-leopard/) Need help with fixing gems on Leopard? (tags: [mac](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/mac) [Ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Ruby) [leopard](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/leopard))

links for 2007-12-13

Technology
[Running Long Background Tasks In Ruby On Rails Made Dead Simple / Ruby On Rails / Blog](https://trix.pl/blog/ruby-on-rails/running-long-background-tasks-in-ruby-on-rails-made-dead-simple) A nice alternative to BackgroundRb for long running tasks in Rails. (tags: [rails](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/rails)) [Utility Belt: Usage](https://utilitybelt.rubyforge.org/) Cool set of utilities to help out Ruby developers using IRB (tags: [ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/ruby))

What is ALT.NET?

Technology
I am searching for answers….what is ALT.NET anyway? I thought I knew what this movement was all about but the more I read the posts to their mailing list I confirm I don’t. I don’t think they do either.

links for 2007-12-07

Technology
[Live Labs : Volta : Download](https://labs.live.com/volta/download/) Microsoft's latest, Volta for creating web applications. (tags: [Volta](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Volta)) [Confreaks: RubyConf 2007](https://rubyconf2007.confreaks.com/) A bunch of presentations are available from the most recent RubyConf (tags: [Ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Ruby) [rubyconf](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/rubyconf))