still alive

Wow, I haven’t posted much lately, have I? I have the attention span of a goldfish.

I’ve been looking at a few things but none of them quite made a full post.

A quick list of time sinks; some of which may make it to an article eventually.

merb (merb-core is beautifully designed; I still think rolling it into rails3 is a mistake)
JRuby (and WARbler to deploy Ruby code to Glassfish)
Rack (the UNIX command line of HTTP, and Rails grew Rack support since I found it)
Erlang (Sapir-Whorf say it’s good for me)
JEE (I know. But it has improved a lot since I last used it, and it’s for work)
document databases like CouchDB , JCR and Sling ( switching CMS for the third time makes you wonder if there’s a better way to do it )
performance and functional testing with Grinder / httperf / Celerity / Selenium / FireWatir (still trying to find The Right One)
Netbeans (come for the Java, stay for the kickass Ruby support – beats Textmate for code browsing)
load balancers (if anyone has a BIG-IP vs. ZXTM opinion, get in touch)
Wii ( timeslicing de Blob, World of Goo and Guitar Hero World Tour )
Arduino (atoms make a refreshing change from bits)