Evan Light has recently pushed his Coulda project to Github - it's a test framework based on Test::Unit, inspired by Cucumber, Shoulda and Thor.

Ok so it’s not quite Schwarzenegger but last week I terminated a twenty year relationship with Microsoft and bought a Mac.

FriendFeed, which was recently acquired by Facebook, just released an interesting piece of open source software.

Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google’s webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.

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Brightbox is looking for two new people to join the systems team, a Senior Linux Systems Administrator and a Linux/Rails System Support person. Both roles are full-time and you can work from home, from our office in Leeds, or a bit of both.

Send a hello, a CV and salary expectations to jobs at the Brightbox UK domain. CVs should be in an open format, preferably PDF or plain text. Closing date is 31^st May 2009.

As always, recruitment agents should e-mail our special recruitment company email address: root@localhost

In the comments of the last article Morgan came up with the idea of client SSL certificates to secure the admin panel. This is not authentication in a classical sense, it is saying which SSL certificates (which you self-signed) you allow to access a particular site. This is a better solution than limiting the access to various IP adresses when you are a work nomad and you have to access it from different parts in the world.

The steps to do this are: