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Tuesday morning roundup!

• Lesserwiki - a very light Ruby on Rails wiki very similiar to TiddlyWiki, with all updates done continuously on one page, double click to edit, etc.
• Article on Writing Custom Iterators for Prototype from Encytemedia
• A Prototype solution to the DOM Ready issue (see Dean's post for background info)
• Javascript object < -> Rails object marshalling capability has been integrated into Protowidget - demo here, detailed explanation here - looks cool and could also function on its own.
• An Ajax-ready slide transition library (demo) based on the popular Prototype/scriptaculous combo.
• Reducing the perceived responsiveness of your app with the "W AJAX" design pattern - using background threads on the server to load complex data while the browser continues to load the easy stuff.
• Safari hates trailing commas like this:
  
  new Effect.Highlight('foo', {duration:0.5,startcolor:'#ff99ff',});
  while FF and IE don't care. Bruce Williams has a quick and dirty Ruby test case to find offending scripts so you can catch it early in your build.

Sifl n Olly's Chester on his love skills. (mp3, probably NSFW)

updated: made title less stupid