Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server.
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The Ubuntu team is excited to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is Ubuntu 7.10, which brings a host of excellent new features.
Crypt manager is a compilation of tools which allow to easily encrypt, open, close and uncrypt folders in a Desktop environment. It is wrote in Python, it uses cryptsetup and LUKS as backend.
FreeType developer David Turner posted some patches for Cairo and Xft that improved the rendering of fonts on LCD screens (but also CRTs with Trinitron layout). These were put up with the proviso that he was unsure whether they would infringe patented algorithms around Microsoft’s ClearType technology.
Sometimes you want to restart your Apache server after changing some configuration in your virutual hosts,sites etc, but you have few hundred clients currently downloading files from your server and you don’t want to disconnect them.