Back to weekly summary, a week before some [short] vacations.

Programming

• Sphere Online Judge - is a problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in many languages:http://www.spoj.pl/tutorials/
• Rust Language tutorial:http://dl.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html
• kennethreitz/python-guide:https://github.com/kennethreitz/python-guide
• Best Paper Awards:http://jeffhuang.com/bestpaperawards.html
• CPU DB:http://cpudb.stanford.edu/
• Daily Code Drills - Daily Code Drills is an experiment to see if a daily drill in typing code makes it easier to then code:http://drills.learncodethehardway.org/

Ruby

• fixjour -Another fixture replacement:https://github.com/nakajima/fixjour
• Unit Record - Enables testing ActiveRecord classes without hitting the database:https://github.com/dan-manges/unit-record
• RubyKoans:http://rubykoans.com/
• FixtureReplacement - FixtureReplacement is a Rails plugin that provides a simple way to quickly populate your test database with model objects without having to manage multiple, brittle fixture files:http://replacefixtures.rubyforge.org/
• Object Daddy - Object Daddy is a library (as well as a Ruby on Rails plugin) designed to assist in automating testing of large collections of objects, especially webs of ActiveRecord models:https://github.com/flogic/object_daddy

Java

• The most complete list of -XX options for Java JM:http://stas-blogspot.blogspot.com.es/2011/07/most-complete-list-of-xx-options-for.html
• Codahale - Metrics - Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. So you know what's going on.:https://github.com/codahale/metrics/

Javascript

• PrismJS - Prism is a new lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind:http://prismjs.com/

Testing

• Capturing Performance Data from Selenium Tests:http://hello.neustar.biz/neustar-meetup-july-2012-thankyouv4.html

Databases

• rollout - Conditionally roll out features with redis:https://github.com/jamesgolick/rollout
• Dynamo is not just for datastores:http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Dynamo-Is-Not-Just-for-Datastores

Environment & Tools

• Bitcasa for Linux - Bitcasa: Welcome to infinite storage:http://www.bitcasa.com/download-linux/
• statsd - Simple daemon for easy stats aggregationhttps://github.com/etsy/statsd/
• logstash - logstash is a tool for managing events and logs:http://logstash.net/
• libsaas - a library to take the pain out of using SaaS APIs, from ducksboard guys :http://libsaas.net/
• fugitive.vim - a Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal...:https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive/
• homebrew - The missing package manager for OS X:https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
• Ansible, a radically simple model-driven configuration management, deployment, and command execution framework:http://ansible.github.com/
• Private Eye | Free Network Monitor for Mac:http://radiosilenceapp.com/private-eye
• Planning Office Spaces:http://www.planning-office-spaces.com/

Blogs & community

• Abstract Persistence Logic - Forty-Two :http://jasonroelofs.com/2012/07/13/abstractpersistencelogic/
• edX - The future of online education:https://www.edx.org/