"...Among the systems I did look into, there are really just two contenders: git and Mercurial. All the other systems track metadata; git and hg just track content and infer the metadata. By tracking metadata I mean that these systems keep a record of what steps were taken..."

XULEdit is the extension that provides live XUL editor for ActiveState's Komodo Edit (Open Komodo Project)

"Part 2 of the blog/webapp tutorial is up. I’d like to point out that I’m learning most of how to do this as I go along, perhaps not the best way to write a tutorial, but I’m having fun, and perhaps someone can make use of it. In other words; feel free to suggest improvements..."

Joomla! is one of the most powerful CMS (Content Management Systems) that has been released the latest years. Using a CMS, you can easily create a professional looking web site in no time.

We all know the right way to sort photos is to do them right after you take them. We also know that doing a disk backup before your drive fails is the right way to do backups. But, we don't always do things the right way.

"...The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email..."

"...For this project I’ve been looking into various frameworks for web application development, and I’ve come up with a combination I think works ok. To help others on their way, I’ve decided to create a small tutorial on how to create a blog with Hunchentoot, html-template and Elephant. This is just to introduce the frameworks and show how easy it can be..."

"The call came down from on high just before the Ruby 1.9 release: replace the standard csv.rb library with faster_csv.rb. With only hours to make the change it was a little harder than I expected. The FasterCSV code base was pretty vanilla Ruby, but it required more work than I would have guessed to get running on Ruby 1.9. Let me share a few of the tips I learned while doctoring the code in the hope that it will help others get their code ready for Ruby 1.9..."