Rails Metal: a micro-framework with the power of Rails. A clean way to bypass the Rails stack for operations which have to be really fast. Manfred (edit) ¶

What’s New In Python 3.0: Text Vs. Data Instead Of Unicode Vs. 8-bit. Providing distinct types for text and (binary) data is much better than having both ‘Unicode’ strings and byte strings. IMHO this is one thing where Python now is clearly better than Ruby. Thijs (edit) ¶

Freckle: Time tracking rethought. Looks great. I think we’re going to use this instead of our own little in-house tool. Thijs (edit) ¶