DailyNews_#13

Ruby / Rails news:
Rails3 Beta 3 – Last beta before the first Rails3 RC ?
Jruby 1.5.0 RC2 – JRuby 1.5 is in Release Candidate
IronRuby 1.0 – Iron Ruby (.Net) is stable !
Non Blocking Active Record – Why we are waiting for Rails3 + Ruby1.9 !
Grease your test suite – Accelerate your tests.

Sass is changing:
Selector inheritance in SASS – Sass is getting better and better.
Sass RC1 – And version 3 is in Release Candidate.

Some talks on Facebook Open Graph Protocol:
Facebook is the private beta of semantic Web – A positive advice on the Open Graph Protocol
Why F8 was good for the open web – Another one
Facebook Open Graph Protocol from a developper perspective – and a last one.

A lot of pros but there are cons too. But the articles I read were not convincing.

The Web future :
Aves Engine – Full platform game made with the open web stack (CANVAS+JS+HTML+CSS).
WebGL demo – Promising !
Mozilla Flexible box model – Here is how we will use CSS positionning in a few years.
Understanding Node.js Great Node.js introduction.
Steve Jobs thoughts on Flash – Good arguments but clearly not enought to forbid Flash on iOS devices.

And :
Ipad multitouch interactions – Ipad surface allows for a lot of new multitouch interactions.
Ubuntu Lucid Linx – The latest Ubuntu is out.