New Toys

• Make friendly URLs easy with stapler
• Make library management hell less hellish with ivy (2.0 was just released)
• ACEGI is now “Spring Security,” whose new version purports lighter configuration requirements than previously.
• iBATIS
• Pipe Viewer (pv) — gives you a graphical show for pipelined tasks and is MacPorts available (sudo port install pv)

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