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Steer WebDriver from Ruby with Backseat

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Use valid markup in your jQuery DOM creation

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Simple Rspec Markup Matcher

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factory_girl is a nice solution for creating models with default attributes in your tests.
Great talk from Tim Bray @ Future Of Web Apps Conference
rr in an interesting option for reducing mocking/stubbing verbosity
Lighthouse Keeper makes Lighthouse a lot more convenient.
WebKit's Web Inspector gets an overhaul I haven’t yet had a chance to try it out, but from the summary, it sounds like most of my major gripes have been addressed.
The association mass assignment patch was pulled from Rails 2.2. Probably a good thing, as there wasn’t agreement over the best approach.
Museo Sans is one of several free fonts from exljbris I like the pay-for-other-weights system.
PhoneGap provides an easy way to package your web app for the iPhone, along with exposing some native APIs
The Chicago Tribute redesigns its print edition It’s much more modern- note the web site style navigation inside sections. Now they just need to redesign their website…
Maybe one day I'll understand why I have to go to the PHP online documentation to figure out the formatting string for this Ruby app I'm working on.
JS.Class is a library for Ruby-style JavaScript
Interesting UI on this iPhone tips page. That the up/down scrolling occurs a page at a time is unfortunate though.
Meta Serif now has its own site
Visual Automata Simulatoris a tool for visualizing finite state machines (or Turing Machines)
MerbCamp- with live webcasting!
RDiscount and RPEGMarkdown are two options for Markdown processing in Ruby Maruku was having some trouble with inline HTML, and RDiscount stepped up to the plate and dealt with it correctly.
MySQL supports SOUNDEX() Who knew?
git whatchanged gives a nice listing of commits and the files that were changed I discovered the command while taking the git survey.
Somehow I missed this article on data visualization back in April
A preview of TraceMonkey, Firefox 3.1's improved version of SpiderMonkey Some interpreted code runs nearly as fast as native code, which is amazing.

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