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DC Web Stencil Kit | Design Commission
"We recently sent out a small batch of our newly designed website interface stencils, along with a handy sketchpad, complete with browser chrome and grid, to a handful of people. We’re planning on having another batch run which we’ll be selling on our site sometime in January. In the mean time, if you’re interested in buying a Web Stencil Kit drop us a line and we’ll let you know as soon as they are available."
Perl 5 now uses Git for version control
Holy time, Sam. "In true open source style, Sam Vilain converted Perl's history from Perforce to Git. He did the work both in his spare time and in time donated by his employer, Catalyst IT. He spent more than a year building custom tools to transform 21 years of Perl history into the first ever unified repository of every single change to Perl. In addition to changes from Perforce, Sam patched together a comprehensive view of Perl's history incorporating publicly available snapshot releases, changes from historical mailing list archives and patch sets recovered from the hard drives of previous Perl release engineers."
Mark Finkle’s Weblog » Fennec Alpha2 - Performance
"Fennec Alpha 2 is now available for download! Desktop versions are available too (Windows, OS X, Linux). While we added some good features in this alpha, the primary focus was performance. Faster startup. Faster page loading. Faster panning and UI interactions."
Riding Rails: Merb gets merged into Rails 3!
"It’s christmas, baby, and do we have a present for you. We’re ending the bickering between Merb and Rails with a this bombshell: Merb is being merged into Rails 3!"