lsyncd - could be quite nice for some purposes. Basically a live-rsync - for example, for automatically distributing config files in our production cluster, it might be quite good, as you no longer have to wait for the cronjobs.
Archive 28. September 2009
Swarm - Concurrency with Scala Continuations - Scala 2.8 sounds increasingly interesting. Portable continuations are essentially type-safe execution states bundled and serialized, so that they can be sent over lines. Highly interesting for creating distributed applications - e.g. saving the session in the browser instead of in the database - but certainly there are also one or two security issues lurking there (serialized objects can also be deserialized and manipulated externally). Exciting to see what could come in that area.
Webber - saw the link on the shockwave. Sounds interesting and looks quite Pythonic.
Welcome To Tahoe-LAFS - an interesting project for truly secure online storage (secure in the sense that "none of the providers can mess with the data or read it").