Pistos

An 85(+) year old blogger. Good, interesting, well-written content. Gives good perspective, coming from someone in a previous generation.

From the site: "GitTorrent makes Git truly distributed. The initial plans are for reducing mirror loading, however the full plans include totally distributed development: no central mirrors whatsoever. PGP signing and other web-of-trust-based mechanisms will take over from protocols on ports (e.g. ssh) as the access control "clearing house"."

"The implications of a truly distributed revision control system are truly staggering: unrestricted software freedom; the playing field is levelled in so many ways, as "the web site" no longer becomes the central choke-point of control. This article will explain more fully some of these implications, not only from a technical perspective but also including the political implications for Software Freedom."

Ramaze is a framework that lets you create web applications in Ruby with a minimum of code. This page begins a blog post series which walks through the creation of a small but functional app from start to finish, describing many Ramaze features along the way.

Cool little 2-d physics engine implemented in Flash. Fun to play with for a few minutes.

"If you only ever interact with your database through your ORM's interface and syntax, you may be slowing your application down."

From the page: "LiveConsole is a library for providing IRB over a TCP connection. You can connect with netcat or telnet, and eval code on a running application."

Good examination of various points to keep in mind when reading the Bread of Life discourse in John 6.

The CRE is a Wordpress plugin which activates both Scripture references and references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, showing non-intrusive popups when you mouseover them.