Pistos

Oh my gosh, that is SO sweet! :) Made me tear up at the end.

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."

Awesome! Though, the author should have put the years of occurrence in text, as well (as the events happened).

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."