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Ruby Quiz is a weekly programming challenge for Ruby programmers in the spirit of the Perl Quiz of the Week. A new Ruby Quiz is sent to the Ruby Talk mailing list each Friday. After a 48 hour no-spoiler period has passed, everyone is invited to contribute solutions and/or discussion back to the list. The following Thursday a Summary will be sent to the list, discussing the quiz, solutions and discussion. The next day, the cycle begins again.

http://www.rubyquiz.com

High Scalability tries to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your system with confidence.

When it becomes clear you must grow your website or die, most people have no idea where to start. It’s not a skill you learn in school or pick up from a magazine article on a plane flight home. No, building scalable systems is a body of knowledge slowly built up over time from hard won experience and many failed battles. Hopefully this site will move you further and faster along the learning curve of success.

http://www.highscalability.com/

What is this wiki about? Alistair Cockburn said, on the Agile Project Management yahoogroup, “Maybe someone who really cares about these numerical reports might collect a bibliography for him/herself and other like-minded people.” So, I’ve created a place where everyone can contribute. You do have to create a login to edit these pages, and please include a summary for all references. I’d like this to be an annotated bibliography, rather than just a list of titles and links. It will be ever-so-much easier to find the appropriate publications that way.

George Dinwiddie

http://biblio.gdinwiddie.com/

Ohloh is a resource for open source intelligence on thousands of open source projects. Ohloh collects software metrics from a variety of sources including the project’s source code and the software development infrastructure used by the project’s development team.

http://www.ohloh.net

There is no ‘right’ way to use a wiki. The fantastic thing about wikis, and the reason they have been so successful, is that they are built from the ground up by the people who use them. That way, the structure of a wiki, and how it is used, comes to mirror how the people using the wiki want to structure it, how they want to use it.

One of the most common misconceptions about patterns are that they are somehow recipes. With that misunderstanding, you would read this site as a list of instructions: how to set up initial content, how to encourage people to contribute, how to deal with disruptive elements.Wikipatterns is not an instruction manual, it’s a set of tools. It’s examples of techniques that have helped people, and of situations that people have found themselves in that they wished they hadn’t. We want to help to identify a nail, and know you might want to hit it with a hammer.

http://www.wikipatterns.com/