here's my choice of gems (my toolset):
# authentication
gem 'devise'
# http calls to external api's
gem 'restfulie' # or
gem 'http_party'
gem 'curb'
# performance management
gem 'newrelic_rpm'
Its been a well known issue that the facebook uploader fails miserably in ubuntu, and hence these packages rock! first i installed phatch
$ sudo apt-get install phatch
next, f-spot
$ sudo apt-get install f-spot
though i know that f-spot allows one to batch update photos, i preferred the intuitive and simple interface of phatch for doing so. i used f-spot's Facebook upload plugin (which is deactivated by default) to upload to Facebook. the f-spot plugin can be activated from Edit > Manage Extensions and used from File > Export > Facebook. happy photo uploading!
Imagine an organization that stores all its business data in spreadsheets. Think about integration, communication, collaboration, scaling-up, flexibility and centralized reporting. Each of these will be impossible till the time you stick to spreadsheets (ever heard of spreadsheet syndrome?). But still organizations can't help but work with spreadsheets as it cannot train each individual to understand databases or SQL querying, or is too small to afford an enterprise-level application.
Here's an online database system I happened to see called: Dabble DB, its simplicity power-packed with all those features I mentioned before.
