A few days ago I stumbled upon Swiz, which bills itself as the "brutally simple micro-architecture for Rich Internet Application development with Adobe Flex." If the term micro-architecture or the buzzword Rich Internet Application haven't scared you off yet, read on, because it really is a lovely little framework. Swiz is a lightweight framework for Flex [...]

There's an open source cloud solution called Reasonably Smart that uses Git and JavaScript. Two weeks ago, they were bought by Joyent. Cue the emergence of a viable alternative to Google App Engine. I'm interested in seeing the direction that Joyent takes this.

I've just tagged Gaebar Beta 3 (version 0.3) in GitHub. This is a bugfix release, with changes almost entirely submitted by or suggested by the community. Thanks go to gumptionthomas, Martin Kleppmann, Tony Andrews, Rafal Jonca, and, of course, Guido van Rossum, for your patches and feedback. Changes in Beta 3 Merged gumptionthomas's pull request (commit) Fixed unicode and [...]

The Yahoo! Flex Skin is a lovely minimalist skin by the good folks on Yahoo!'s Flash team. However, it has an issue that you need to work around if you want to load it in dynamically at runtime. It's a simple thing, but I thought I'd document it here in hopes that it will help [...]

I'm happy to announce that there's quite an important update to Gaebar that brings with it some essential bug fixes and should help shave quite a bit of time off of your restores. I've also created a new project called gaebar-gaed-skeleton on GitHub that gives you an empty Google App Engine Django (Helper) project with Gaebar [...]