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[Found via Brad Chapman] Compass is a "meta-framework" for CSS which compiles a domain specific language called Sass into actual CSS. A neat tool written in Ruby.

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The zaniest, most creative programming book I've ever seen.

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Similar in vein to Trac, but with support for distributed SCMs, this looks like a nice project management framework.

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[Found via mndoci.] Heroku is both a Y Combinator funded company and a distributed computing architecture. I love the diagrams presented on this page, and it's worth looking at if only to see how to explain a complex system intuitively.

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"A small Rails plugin for preparing applications to run on Amazon Web Service's EC2 platform."

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A link-fest for Twitter's explanation of how they solved their scalability issues.

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The emphasis on the importance of libraries struck a chord with me. (Don't worry, I still think Perl is an ugly language.)

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igraph is a C graph (network) library with bindings in R, Python, and Ruby. With Python, it can do visualization with Cairo.

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This is why you never outsource your internet operations to a company that doesn't specialize in internet operations.

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This was a "shootout" in 2005 between Ruby on Rails and Django. Obviously Django won... (Yes, I'm joking... or am I?)

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