TechCrunch has an interesting post today about a free SEO evaluation tool called Website Grader. Simply put in your url and Website Grader will crawl your site and report back important information regarding your site and how to optimize it for search engines. For example, it tells me that foojam.com rates a 76 out of 100, and explains specific things I can do to boost my score. Very helpful!

PostgreSQL 8.3 was released today. Among the list of new features is built-in full text search (TSearch2) and a bunch of performance, large database, and administration improvements. The official set of release notes can be found here.

Registration is now open for MountainWest RubyConf 2008. Price is a mere $100 and includes lunch and other goodies. Schedule and list of speakers is available here.

This is an older article, but Steven Levithan has an article posted on his site regarding how to do a faster trim function in JavaScript. His demo page has eleven different trim implementations and some example text to test them out on.

via Ajaxian.