SlideAware has created a slick web-based solution for managing the life cycle of Powerpoint presentations. They started using Python, then they switched to Rails, and finally settled on pure Erlang. Using Erlang, they replaced a combination of Lighttpd + RoR + SQLlite + XMLRpc + Jython + Lucene with the much simpler and highly scalable stack of Yaws + Mnesia + Erlang.
They wrote an interesting article describing their technology choices. Check it out at this article on SlideAware’s blog.
[from Yariv’s Blog]
Following on from the success of Yahoo!’s internal Hack Days, I’m delighted to tell you that registration begins today for Yahoo!’s first-ever external Hack Day in Europe.
On June 16th and 17th, London’s historic Alexandra Palace will experience the buzz of innovation as up to 500 external web developers and new media technologists join together for a fun and free flowing exchange of ideas. The ultimate goal: to create and innovate the next generation of Internet services.
In you’re interested in finding out more or checking out the external registration site, go to http://hackday.org/.
While looking for my lost posts I’ve found that you can get back the last fetched feed from Google Reader from the URL below:
Then I got back about 50 posts from my lost pixzone.com blog in atom format.
My next step is to create a small converter from Atom to Wordpress Extended RSS (WXR) format that I can use to import back the posts in Wordpress, I already found some Ruby code for reference.
Update: I’ve created a small perl script to convert the Atom generated by Google Reader to the Wordpress Extended RSS (WXR) format, you’ll find the Perl source below. You’ll also need to patch the wp_create_post() function in wp-include/post.php to keep the post IDs unchanged if you have included the post ID in the permalink and you don’t want to have a lot of 404s in your logs! 
