I’ve found out today that Chad Fowler has released a beta version of his upcoming book “Rails Recipes”. The approach for this book is to supply the reader with several case studies regarding diferente problems and situations, it’s a very practical and usefull book.
Specially if you combine it with the “Agile Web Development with Rails” book which I previously talked about.
Right now if you want there’s a way of buying the beta version of the book and have access to 21 recipes in pdf format, more info can be found on the Ruby on Rails weblog.

moo.fx is a lightweight, megasmall, easy to use, fast, cross-browser, javascript effects library, written with prototype.js.
It’s a real blast and I can’t wait to use it in a project or two. In the meantime I recommend a look at these two tutorials for beginners, they’re really well written and straghtforward.

moo.fx tutorial quickie
The Idiot’s Guide to moo.fx

Have fun. :)

It’s official and it’s looking good, the new Mac Mini powered by Intel CPU chips are coming.
TUAW has unveiled the specs for both versions:

1.5GHz Intel Core Single
1.5GHz Intel Core Solo processor
2MB L2 Cache
667MHz Frontside Bus
512MB memory (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM)
60GB Serial ATA hard drive
Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
Price: Starts at $599.00

1.67 GHz Intel Core Dual
1.66GHz Intel Core Duo processor
2MB L2 Cache
667MHz Frontside Bus
512MB memory (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM)
80GB Serial ATA hard drive
Double-layer SuperDrive (DVD R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Price: Starts at $799.00

You can see the whole article at The Unnoficial Apple WebBlog.
On another sidenote, Apple has also released a tutorial on Ruby On Rails on OSX, it’s a must read if you own a Mac and want to get started programming on Rails. You can view the tutorial at Apple Developer.