Archive 13. August 2005

kenosis is a Python library for a simple P2P protocol that is based on XMLRPC. Simple and straightforward, but without any form of encryption - should therefore be used over externally encrypted or otherwise secured channels.

Nitro is a web framework for Ruby. Clearly positioned as a competitor to Rails, it addresses some of Rails' weaknesses - for example, the rather meager Object-Relation-Mappers in Rails via ActiveRecords. Nitro uses Og instead. Otherwise, the features are significantly more developed - more code, less hype.

RBL Operator Again

After I already wrote about it in April, it's now also in the Heise Ticker: RFC-ignorant: All .de domains under suspicion of spam. The ignoramuses of RFC-Ignorant will certainly not change their minds, but perhaps now the one or other provider will remove this absurd block list from the mail configuration.