Daniel Rubio has a nice analysis of Ruby on Rails and explains that it is Impressive, and will surely shake up web development.

If you’re working on a local Ruby on Rails project and want to access the Rails documentation offline, here is a great tip.

When you installed the Rails Gem, the complete Rails documentation was also installed on your system. To access it, you need to start the built-in Rails server named “Webrick” by going to a command prompt and typing gem_server. Next type http://localhost:8808 into your browsers address bar, and voila!

[Tip via Atog]

AutoLink from Jesse Ruderman is a Greasemonkey User Script that will turn plain text links like http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/
jim.rutherford@gmail.com into clickable links.

Firefox 1.1 (AKA: Deer Park) Alpha 1 Candidate Builds are now available for testing. You can download the installer for Windows , OSX and Linux or if you prefer, you can grab a zipped version that does not require an installer.

A noteable feature in this version of Firefox is that the JavaScript Console now shows CSS and markup errors as seen in the screenshot below:

As markup and css errors account for many problems creating standards-based layouts, this feature is bound to be useful for devlopers.

Nathan Torkington from O’Reilly Radar discusses How To Roll Out An Open API for your web applications.

DNKA is a remote desktop search tool that let’s you search another computer using Google Desktop. It acts as a web server (search server) by interacting as a layer between Google Desktop Search (GDS) and user and allows other users to search, view and download your files, emails, chats and web history.

This could be usefull if you have multiple PC on your network or at remote locations that you want to be able to search.

Google is now offering a FREE Enterprise Edition of it’s popular desktop search tool. The Enterprise Edition will allow users within a corporate environment to search for common documents and emails llocated on their computers and includes administrator features that provide enhanced security, centralized configuration and easy deployment.

456 Berea Street shows you how to create Transparent custom corners and borders using CSS in this excellent article.

Are you concerned about people creating Greasemonkey user scripts that will modify your websites? Mark Pilgrim – the author of Dive into Greasemonkey posts this tip to Disable Greasemonkey on Your Website

If you use Subversion concurrent versioning system, you may want to read ONLamp.com’s article that compares three Subversion UI’s.