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Just a friendly reminder the you can get the Programming Rust book for only $15 along with a bunch of other good books for 3 more days at the Humble Bundle Functional Programming Bundle. I've been working my way through it and learned a lot so far about Rust.

Go has really been great fit for web based APIs where I work. Going from multiple servers running PHP-FCGI to a single server running a Go app behind Nginx has reduced costs significantly.

Makefile fussing was driving me insane with Go. I was trying to build with directory local packages to keep bits of code separated cleanly and it was a pain to get working.

I discovered http://code.google.com/p/go-gb/ and haven't looked back. It makes building Go code SO much nicer. If I just want to try something quick in Go I just make a directory, place my whatever.go file in it, type 'gb', and run my program.

I really hope they make this 'go' tool as easy as 'gb'.

I really wish they would straighten out their documentation. I've only looked a few times but it seems very conditional in the description of features like replication sets, etc. I think they should have it organized like the MySQL site has it. E.g. view 5.0 documentation here, or 5.1 here, etc.

The way it is now I couldn't tell you right away what version supports what just by glancing at the docs for a minute.

Google Code's UI needs a lot of work. I just created a test project to try our git functionality. I closed my browser and went to a meeting. After an hour or so I come back, open my browser, and type in code.google.com. I get a nice page but no links to "my projects" or the like. After searching through links on the page I finally had to give up and had to type in the project URL (http://code.google.com/p/myproject) from memory.

How is vim an obscure tool? I'm pretty sure quite a few people use vim daily. After looking over this list, I suspect it's also true for many listed programs.

I think puppet in this case is overkill. I simple bash script with a small function to check if it already exists and what not would do just fine and you don't have to install another application (puppet).