links for 2006-01-13

the gems, not the code

Detailed article on deploying ruby on rails application, plenty of helpful information

How to know you are doing quality work, are you working on the hardest problem in your field, if not why not and more in that vein

A slight kickback to the list ticking GTD approach, find the most important things and concentrate on them. Everything else can go hang, it could be taken too far, as who picks up your mess. However this and the hamming article are good food for thought

tips on using subversion on Tiger

keychain is a command-line tool allowing easy setup of ssh based passwordless access to servers using RSA keys

roles based auth for Ruby on Rails, basic but looks interesting

visual mapping tool, depicting where your site visitors are coming from

I've meant to read the book that this site is based on in the past. My typography and site design has never been strong, so this should help