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Don't forget about Caché Intersystems, who provide a "modern object-oriented" MUMPS implementation. Complete with SQL emulation and a web template language that's almost a direct l…

Replace 'client that users install' with 'prebuilt targets for all major mobile+desktop platforms', and you've got Zipline's Moai: http://getmoai.com/

Don't forget Ripl, either: https://github.com/cldwalker/ripl

It's not even a reactor as I understand it--it's basically just a sealed neutron source and couldn't go critical. It's not terribly surprising that they'd have something like that …

As jodrellblank says, it's been possible to do this for a long time: Inferno IE4 plugin: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/plugin/index.html Lively Kernel: http://www.lively-kernel.…

Confirmed: Nexus S, 4.0.4, and it looks fine: http://imgur.com/N2cLn

Unless you're on a platform where you can't get gcc >4.0, so RVM is helpless, and you're stuck with just bundler. Then the rake/cron nightmares come..

SourceTree is a desktop client for DVCSs in general, not a webapp, so I'm not sure of the comparison. It's a pretty sweet piece of kit regardless. It's also a side-project of Steve…

If you could get people to write a bunch of temporal expressions( http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/timeNarrative.html ) for the most standard parking signs, you could then start work…

The other post linked from this entry notes that this is based on Dan Kaminsky's DNSSEC presentation. Dan has a pretty interesting line of articles describing doing this kind of st…

I definitely agree that entrepreneurs are going to take the plunge or not. I'm focused on the support network / employee angle, and harkening back to daveschappell's point that the…

But do you invite other people, or have some way of introducing others to it? That's kind of what I'm getting at: regardless of the activity, there's a social disconnect for gettin…

Possibly the Seattle Freeze? http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.h... In the 5 years after college that I lived in the city proper, the only tech group I man…

Did you work at the same place I do now(small-town paper in the Pacific NW)? Being the sole developer there, I can absolutely confirm this. And since I was hired to write the websi…