Coming back to Rails after being away from some time in Django land I discovered a huge difference in how Rails, Grails and Django treats your models.
Building your own Twitter client with Fluid and jQuery
Like many before me, I was searching (unsuccessfully) for a decent twitter client. There are many, but most seem to be ad sponsored or based on a rather hefty framework like AIR (which by now, I guess, has been silently installed on my computer anyhow).