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Juicer - a CSS and JavaScript packaging tool / Ruby - cjohansen.no
"Juicer is a new command line tool that helps by resolving dependencies, merging and minifying files. It can even check your syntax, add cache busters to and cycle asset hosts on URLs in CSS files and more."
Karl Tomlinson: Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 on Linux uses less memory
"In the graph you can see how the memory use of Firefox on Linux has changed during development for Firefox 3.1. The y-axis represents the average resident physical memory in bytes used by the Firefox process while cycling through 400 or so pages 5 or 10 times."
Groovy and Grape - easiest way to send gtalk message with Apache Camel? :: Andrej Koelewijn
"Groovy 1.6 makes it really easy to quickly try out new frameworks. Dependency management build into the language allows you to write simple scripts, all required libraries will be downloaded automatically when you run it.
Here’s an example using Apache Camel. This script can simply be run from the command prompt. Groovy will compile it, download all dependencies and run it. The dependencies are specified using the @Grab annotation. Groovy uses Ivy to download these dependecies. "
Games round-up for February 2009
"Ok, on with the games for February. I'll only mention those that were added after the initial announcement and since I'm still largely playing catch-up with several years worth of existing games, most games aren't that fresh anymore but there might a few that catch your eye anyway. As I work my way through the pile of games to add, the old-to-new ration should hopefully improve."
CSS3 Awesome Test
"Just for fun, I decided to whip up one big awesome demonstration of some new CSS3 features in Firefox 3.1."