prettyprinting json in console.

    $ curl -s http://someapi/cats.json | python -mjson.tool

Prose.IO

http://prose.io -- is a content editor for github.

github provides online editor to edit code and commit. However, when it comes to

editing web pages, either in markdown format (which is widely supported at github in wikis, comments, gh-pages etc.,)

or HTML, the online editor is not quite *nice*. 

Prose.IO, true to it's name is very good at editing content by removing distractions. 

The technology is also quite interesting: 

It is almost-completely a client side application. Github exposes the user data as REST APIs which is

consumed using github.js library (https://github.com/michael/github). 

The only place where server side code is involved is to handle OAuth2 authentication. It will be interesting

to see if this work around is needed for all such APIs or it is corner-case specific to github. 

Ann: http://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/june/25/prose-a-content-editor-for-github/

What does Continuous Deployment mean to your team?

1. Engineers: Commit code and it will be live in production in ~8 minutes, automatically
2. Ops: Deliver same-day fixes for customer issues
3. ales: Receive quick turn-around on pulling metrics and one-offs
4. Product: See that every day we're better than the day before

Source: http://www.onebigfluke.com/2012/06/continuous-deployment-as-remedy-for.html

jetpants

Jetpants is an automation toolkit for handling monstrously large MySQL
database topologies.
https://github.com/tumblr/jetpants

Being a project evolved from production demands, this could be a solid
project. I wonder
what it would take to port the ideas to postgresql? What would be the
challenges?

Is there anything in postgresql's architecture that would make this
easier, harder?

Hello world

Hello world!
This is a test post from rst2blogger.

A quick primer on redis key-value database

redis: the AK-47 of databases

Gives a command line driven peek into installation, configuration options, transactions and pub/sub.

Sublime Text: The text editor

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

A few positive comments on this editor on HN