When GitHub goes down... — ones zeros majors and minors
http://ozmm.org/posts/when_github_goes_down.html

How to recover your project if git hub goes down.

Thanks! I am going to cancel my github account so this will be useful

git instaweb --httpd=webrick FTW.

Phusion Passenger now supports nginx - which is absolutely cool.

how to setup ubuntu server "right" really good guide on basics of setting up server

I am going to go through a series of blog posts explaining a lot of tips, tricks, and best practices for setting up a single server and the general small infrastructures. Today we are going to hit the basics — what I consider to be the bare minimum necessary to get an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server ready to go and serving your rails application

information on speeding up Capistrano deployment scripts

[deployment][capistrano][fabric]

A great article with chunks of details regarding how github reduced their deploy time from 15 minutes to 14 seconds. w00t!

Git based capistrano deployment

This article will show you how to create a repeatable Django development environment from scratch using zc.buildout.

Buildout is a tool for reliably creating reproducible software builds. It was originally developed by Zope Corporation, and is often used in Zope builds; however, there's no dependency on Zope. You can use it to build pretty much anything. And I'm going to show you how to get a Django build up and running using it.

A Django Development Environment with zc.buildout

django buildout cfg for easy setup