If you’re interested in Ruby and programming issues in general some of the following links might be useful:

Zen and the Art of Programming – A general Ruby, Rails blog, the RSS feed from this is great if you want to keep track of goings on outside the Rails community.

Ongoing - An interesting read for those who want a recap of the “interesting” bits of programming conferences like JavaOne. At the time of posting this he’s gone into full flower-picture-taking-mode, andsome of them are fantastic.

Stevey’s Blog Rants – this one is great only if you’ve got a lot of time on your hands. There’s an interesting article about the come back of dynamic lanaguages and some methods/tools to speed them up that are just around the corner.

IT Signals – useful for finding out how plug-ins that he uses work. Maybe useful, might not be.

Too-biased – musings on subjects from CouchDB to ActiveShipping (A rails merchant plug-in) and then some…

If you’ve got any more interesting sites that you regularly read along the same lines as any of the above leave me a comment and I’ll add it to the list.

Dan