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Friday, 31st August 2007

They promised us jetpacks, too. Ben Hammersley points out that the recent flying car story has done the rounds many times before. I’m sure I remember it from my childhood.

# 10:28 am / ben-hammersley, flyingcar, moller

A meeting must fight to exist. It must defend its existence to its attendees who should constantly be asking "Why are we here?"

Rands

# 5:50 pm / meetings, rands

Python 3.0a1 released. Wow, that was a pretty fast turnaround. Betas are planned for 2008, with a final release scheduled for August.

# 8:36 pm / python, python3

Webistrano. Web based interface for managing Capistrano deployments. Cal recommends having a “deploy to live site” button in his book; this looks like an easy way to build that.

# 11:05 pm / calhenderson, capistrano, deployment, webistrano