application environment

On his blog today Jani Hartikainen looks at his experience learning Wicket (a Java application framework) from the perspective of a PHP developer.

Tech Broiler: "Amazon is not going to participate in the Open Source community and is the antithesis of Google.

It wants something closed but with a rich application environment. It wants its cake and to be able to eat it."

Have you ever yearned for something like Rails's script/console or Merb's merb -i in your other Rack based apps?

If so, then Marcin Kulik's racksh, inspired by Heroku's console, might be for you.