nice collection of cli commands

Saw this link and got interested in ATS. Looks pretty cool.

Some cool stuff here I didn’t know about. A bunch of the entries are just different Maatkit tools. You do use mk, right? :P

from the article:

One of the most defining aspects of Pallet is that it is a library, not a service, and hence there is no server to install in your network, just something that you embed in your code or use in your scripts.

To me thats very compelling. I’m subconsciously repelled by the server-client model for deployment, because it doesn’t seem like the simplest way to solve the problem. I don’t use Clojure or Pallet, but now I’m at least going to research them.

Learn ye some Javascript

Understanding networks. It’s a fundamental part of our work at Percolate. I feel everyday I learn something new as the world hurtles by.

I did some meta programming in PHP with the ORM/DB framework Doctrine (big fan). Time to sharpen my skills in Python, too.

EVERYONE

A short thought, but understanding the different contexts through which it can be interpreted is the real eye-opener.