Dave Elkins

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Ben Curtis has a good article about deploying to EC2.
http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2009/07/automating-ec2-deployments-with-ruby/

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One of the big pushes that social networks have had in the past couple years is the ability to extend them and build on top of the platform.  Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and OpenSocial all have ways to provide “Apps” for extending the platform.  Google Wave is no different, it has several ways for developers to [...]

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Google recently opened up Google Wave to developers and I was lucky enough to get one of dev accounts.  I have been working with Google Wave for a few days.
Google Wave is a next generation communication environment that is an attempt to reinvent email, IM, and collaboration on the web in general.  There are many [...]

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A couple of good articles about integrating OAuth into your Rails app.
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2009/07/21/consuming-oauth-intelligently-in-rails
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2007/11/26/how-to-turn-your-rails-site-into-an-oauth-provider
http://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin/tree/master

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http://railscasts.com/episodes/171-delayed-job – A good railscast about using Delayed Job.
http://www.therailsway.com/2009/7/22/do-it-later-with-delayed-job – Article by TheRailsWay about why to use and how to use.
It looks like are really simple way to offload long running tasks.

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Cucumber looks interesting but I am still not sold that it is necessary.  It feels a little overkill.  What do you think?
Here are some links to see how to use it and how it works.
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/cucumber-introduction/
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/cucumber-more-advanced/
http://railscasts.com/episodes/155-beginning-with-cucumber
http://railscasts.com/episodes/159-more-on-cucumber

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In this article, Intridea shows you how to use CloudFront and AssetPackager together and prevent stale copies of assets from being served.
http://www.intridea.com/posts/amazon-cloudfront-preventing-stale-assets

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This is an article about different techniques for creating small unique tokens in Ruby.
http://blog.logeek.fr/2009/7/2/creating-small-unique-tokens-in-ruby

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Here is a really good article about using Cassandra from Evan Weaver.
http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/07/06/up-and-running-with-cassandra/

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