"Design, host and share your own custom maps." Interesting - tile hosting, tile creation.

"Gemcutter is the next generation of gem hosting for the Ruby community. Instantly publish your gems and install them. Use the API to interact and find out more information about available gems. Become a contributor and enhance the site with your own changes." Apparently this is the next big thing, post-github not serving gems. Let's chase this trend for a bit.

"...it’s been a week and we’ve decided to not bring back the gem builder. It was a fun experiment but Jeweler and Gemcutter combined make it ridiculously simple to publish a gem. The gem builder use case (fork a project, make a change, publish a gem, install it) is now easier than ever using these tools." Which is all very nice, but a bit of a PITA for anyone who'd been depending on this. Still: gems.github.com will serve for another year.

"The bottom line is, there are laws on the books in the EU that stand in direct conflict with the needs of Google's architecture, and no amount of hand waving will make that fact go away." Smart artcile about the legal issues of cloud computing.

SixApart's MySQL DBA shares some thoughts on running tight ops ships. Lots of good wisdom in here.

"SwitchPipe is a proof of concept "Web application server" or, more accurately, a Web application process manager and request proxy." Wow. Peter Cooper comes good on his "RBoss" concept. Could be interesting to see if there's mileage in this.

Hosted subversion and continuous integration specifically for Rails development. Looks interesting; reasonably competitive pricing.

Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.

Phil kept pretty detailed notes on moving hosts. Worth bearing in mind, as I think about doing the same...

What it says on the tin. Could be very, very useful...

I'll need to install this quite soon.

No time to read this now, so into delicious it goes...

Locking the core Rails gems' versions. Useful, if it's still valid syntax (Rails moves a lot in a year)

Good notes; could come in handy

Ryan Lackey on the death of Havenco, the Sealand based colo, and what went wrong