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Google Analytics iPhone App
Google has finally released a native iPhone app for its Analytics product offering. The app features dashboard views and more than 80 reports and real-time graphs.
The Twelve-Factor App
Written by developers, for developers, The Twelve Factors is a set of broad conceptual solutions to common problems facing software and web developers.
Better Ideas Faster
The Do Lectures are featuring a 19-minute video presentation by Matt Hart on the topic of innovating more quickly through learning by doing.
Internationalizing Names
Asking for a person's name in your app's form fields isn't as simple as you thought, if you have international users. This W3C write-up on the issue is eye-opening and worth a quick read.
Brakeman
Securing a web app isn't easy. Brakeman aims to give Ruby on Rails developers a leg-up in the process. Brakeman checks Ruby on Rails apps for security vulnerabilities and can be combined with Guard for continuous monitoring.
Apartment
For multi-tenant Ruby on Rails apps, Apartment promises to be a helpful gem worth evaluating. Apartment provides tools for easily adding and switching between tenants within an app.
YouConvertIt File Conversion
Upload a document, image, music file, video file, or archive file and convert it to just about any other format.