
Yaketee (‘ya-ke-t’E) is a message board with a twist. To post and read messages, you have to be on the same network as the people you’re exchanging messages with.

Yaketee (‘ya-ke-t’E) is a message board with a twist. To post and read messages, you have to be on the same network as the people you’re exchanging messages with.
My new venture. What exactly we do, you’ll get to find soon enough.
The best tool is the one that gets the job done in the most efficient and effective way possible. Many developers are discovering that the best often happens to be Ruby. As the authors of Ruby in Practice observe, by using Ruby you can impress your friends, appease your boss, get work done, have fun, go home early, and have a life.
Ruby in Practice increases your productivity by showing you specific Ruby techniques you can use in your projects. The book offers detailed strategies for using Ruby in a large-scale environment. You’ll see concrete examples of integration, messaging, web development, and databases, all presented in a clear Problem/Solution format. This book won’t help you push your deadline back, but it will help you get the job done in less time.
PDF and paperback available from Manning. Paperback from Amazon.
Pretty much everything I’m working on these days has source hosted on the wonderful GitHub and is only a git clone away.

Buildr is a build system for Java applications. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest. But also something we can easily extend for those one-off tasks, with a language that’s a joy to use. And of course, we wanted it to be fast, reliable and have outstanding dependency management.
Besides being a kick-ass build system that doesn’t force XML down on you, it’s also the first full on Ruby project at Apache. Check it out.
Scraping HTML with style. A toolkit for writing scrapers using CSS selectors and a scraping DSL.