A handy little one - a backup script for RimuHosting that will backup your Rails app and copy it to the provided backup storage account. To use it you first have to add Geoffrey Grosenbach's backup.rake script to your lib/tasks directory, then sign up for RimuHosting's backup service, then just save out this script as e.g. "backup.sh" and add it to your crontab.

Sys-Con have finally put to rest what I’ve thought was an utterly horrible magazine, the ColdFusion Developer’s Journal. Between an utterly useless website that bombards you with 80% advertisements / 20% content, and a magazine with fraud printed all over it (not paying authors, using blog articles without consent, increasing subscription rates, ignoring their own volunteer editorial board), the ColdFusion industry is much better off without them.

Had an MS Word file that would crash Acrobat (both 6 and 8) every time we'd convert it to PDF due to some embedded fonts. After searching the net I tried out PDFCreator and it worked!