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"Halcyon is a interesting new Web app framework by Matt Todd, written in Ruby. What makes Halcyon interesting is that while it's very small and fast, as many of the Web app framework newcomers (such as Sinatra) are, its focus is entirely on using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for communications to and from the server..."
"Emacs has special modes for many different types of files; a mode might colorize the file in some useful way, or add some functions or keybindings to easily manipulate them. Each buffer has one specific mode called the major mode. In addition, each buffer can have multiple minor modes, which enhance the major mode in some way.
"Today, though, I'd like to talk about and propose a different approach to User Interface Prototyping: Emacs Artist Mode. Artist mode is a minor Emacs mode that turns an emacs buffer into a canvas you can draw all sorts of geometrical shapes on [...] Let me know how you are using artist mode in your projects..."
"Hi, I am releasing version 6.17 of Org-mode. Besides the footnote support discussed already extensively here, this release also contains a new feature to make Org-mode more usable for writing tutorials and similar documents with code examples..."
"...Steve Yegge’s Javascript editing mode for Emacs, js2-mode, really takes this kind of 'ambient usefulness' to the next level. That’s because it doesn’t just use colors and styles to indicate syntax, but to indicate semantics as well..." -- http://code.google.com/p/js2-mode/
Seamless mode allows Linux users to run those few Windows applications they can't live without in a more natural and integrated way. This article shows you what seamless mode is and how it works.
