Puppet, Chef, Salt, & Ansible are mostly overkill for the basic server orchestration tasks I have to do, so I will take a look at this.
Author: braveterry
Quercus: 100% Java implementation of PHP
Tig: ncurses-based text-mode interface for git
Meltdown: JQuery plugin that adds Markdown Extra live preview & a toolbar for common actions
Apache Ivy: Java dependency manager that integrates with Apache Ant
We use Apache Ant for our builds at work. We are managing our dependencies by hand right now, but I’m hoping that we can move to Ivy to help ease the burden of managing transitive dependencies (and stop storing jars in our repo alongside our source).
Essay: You weren’t meant to have a boss by Paul Graham
An old 2008 essay from Paul Graham. I like his thinking about freedom in large organizations.
PostGIS: Adds support for geographic objects allowing location queries to be run in PostgreSQL
Podcast Episode: The Changelog #125 with Jekyll maintainer Parker Moore
Joda-Time: Date and time API for Java
We’re still using Java 6 for our apps at work. Recently I needed to compute the number of days between 2 dates. It turns out that it’s a non–trivial problem. We’re using JBoss Seam as our web development framework, so I ended up using the Joda-Time packaged with Seam to do the computation. It’s a lovely API and much cleaner than the standard Java API.
