Disclaimer: Hi guys, I will not start a Religion wars between Emacs and Vim. For a copule of reason:

• I have been an Emacs fan for about ten years, then I get a depression because of emacs-lisp complicated interface and slow emacs evolution
• I have worked on pymacs a bit, so I am somewhat a Emacs contributor
• I am still searching a good general purpose editor. On my day by day job, eclispe is my food.

So I was accustomed to emacs from the University. Now I decided to give a try to vim, mostly because I need

• a editor working on slow connection
• a fast startup editor
• some time to be masochistic. Some guys smoke, others use vim. It perfectlys fit in your auto-destruction instinct.

In Software world changing editor is the same to change your religion  :)

I was happy with vim for this reason:

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About Diaspora, we read from Ars Technica (underline is our):

Diaspora emerged as a response to the privacy concerns raised by mainstream social networking services. The aim of Diaspora is to create an open source social network alternative with decentralized architecture, giving end users more control over their private information and how it is shared with other people. [...]

When the first Diaspora code was first published in September, independent reviewers found some serious technical defects, including a number of security weaknesses. […]

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We are happy to announce the integration of Intense Debate on Gioorgi.com.

We hope the the new commenting system shake our site, givng us better visibility and a faster comment roundtrip

Remember we are also on Facebook and on Twitter, as you can see from our Twitter link above :)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_object-relational_mapping_software#Python

For a good list of Jquery RSS reader, take a look to this discussion on stack overflow.

A good stuff is

zRSSFeed - RSS Feeds Reader for jQuery

This plugin will read RSS feeds from any website url using the Google Feeds API. It produces structured HTML with in-built CSS classes for styling. Simple and easy to use.

Cappuccino è un progetto interessante, anche se molto particolare.

Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser. Cappuccino is built on top of standard web technologies like JavaScript, and it implements most of the familiar APIs from GNUstep and Apple's Cocoa frameworks.

With Cappuccino, you don't need to know HTML. You'll never write a line of CSS. You don't ever have interact with DOM. We only ask developers to learn one technology, Objective-J, and one set of APIs. Plus, these technologies are implementations of well known and well understood existing ones. Developers can leverage decades of collective experience to really accelerate the pace of building rich web applications.

 Tra i bonus di Cappuccino c'è la possibilità di programmarlo come se si stesse programmando in Objective-C ed in particolare in Cocoa. Può rappresentare un ottimo investimento se avete un background in XCode. L'interfaccia e le librerie constano in circa 10MB di codice compresso: non esattamente una passeggiata.

Una delle applicazioni più complicate è http://280slides.com/ che però a tempi di caricamento abbastanza alti.

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