"The Emms project is moving to git to manage development. I'm happy about it because it will be an an opportunity for me to try git and find out what the big fuss is all about..." --
* http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EMMSDevelopment
* http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EMMS

"In a previous post I talked about working on making the largest Emacs reference card. Well, I finally uploaded a version to the Emacs Wiki..."

NB: Reference sheet examples http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryReferenceSheet

"php-mode is responsible for syntax highlighting, indentation, and other major PHP-specific modifications to your editing environment. There are a number of PHP modes available for Emacs. In this project, you’ll learn how to set up the php-mode available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-mode/ .

The second pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring is now available. This alpha 2 version provides updates of major desktop components of the distribution: KDE 4.2 RC 1, GNOME 2.25.4, Xfce 4.6 Beta 4, X.org server 1.5, Python 2.6.1.

"For those of you that write, or wish you wrote, or otherwise procrastinate while performing text-based activities, try out write-or-die [...] However, I use emacs; and switching from my carefully-tuned text-editor extraordinaire to a javascript-based text-box is a bit of a disappointment.

The RC2 release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Estephe) is now available. This RC2 version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26,X.org server 1.6, kernel 2.6.29.

As part of DebConf 8, Martin F. Krafft will talk about http://vcs-pkg.org and intend to introduce TopGit --
* DebConf8/Streams

The beta release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Margaux) is now available. This beta version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.0, GNOME 2.25.90, Xfce 4.6 RC1, X.org server 1.5, OpenOffice.Org 3.0.1, qt 4.5.0 (RC1)

"...Emacs is a text editor. And it’s a lot more — sometimes too much. I know of a number of Emacs users who practically live in the editor. As I pointed out in a previous post, some users go a little overboard with the way in which they use Emacs — as a personal information manager, as a mail client, and even as a Web browser.