Anyone who does Ruby on Rails development should familiarize themselves with mod_rails aka Phusion Passenger as the brand new v2 RC is just amazing. Just take a look at those improvements: from buffered uploads so apps don't get stuck, to a tremendous reduction in the memory usage, Rack and WSGI support (yeah, it can run Python apps!), improved startup time...
After working with git some more, specifically the git/svn integration, I can't imagine wanting to use anything else. Awesome stuff. Of course the only problem is the flaky support for Windows :-\
Obie Fernandez, who gave a really insightful presentation recently at acts_as_conference, has commented on the news that SAP is being sued for $100m for lying about their product as they attempted to sell a massive software system to Waste Management. Having worked in IT for a decade, and having read every bit of published material I could get my hands on for a good decade before that, I must admit this is not in the least bit surprising.
Control.Tabs is a simply wonderful JavaScript extension for the Prototype library. In one project I'm using in multiple places and it fits the requirements perfectly. There is, however, a weird problem with one page with IE where instead of displaying the form like this: