Design
tips for non-designers A good set of tips here, particularly
for those of us who aren't blessed with the gift of design sense.
There's an awful lot of good stuff on
YourTotalSite
in general.
The Backpack
web service has been available for a few short hours, and already
O’Reilly has started using it on their
Radar
Blog. They’ve devised a nifty way of tying together content on their
public backpack pages, with the Amazon API in order to produce their
books
page. This reminds me a lot of shell scripting on a *nix system, tying
together applications to build something new.
Obie Fernandez of ThoughtWorks put together a great presentation on Ruby
on Rails for the Agile Atlanta group. It does a good job of covering all
of the things that make Rails great.