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I've posted about Stack Overflow before. It's a community question and answer site with wiki-like editing capabilities for programmers and programming questions. It's a great resource.
The people behind it have just launched a sister site called ServerFault which is the same thing, but for system administrators. Assuming it's not completely dominated by Windows admins this will be very helpful to me as well (Stack Overflow has lots of Microsoft based discussion, but it isn't overwhelmed by it, and it's easy to pick through and find the areas you are interested in.)
That’s where Typekit comes in. We’ve been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. We’ve built a technology platform that lets us to host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers the level of protection that type designers need without resorting to annoying and ineffective DRM.If true this will be super great and I will definitely use it.
As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design.
We’ll be launching this summer with a great collection of beautiful and hardworking typefaces. We’ll offer a free version of the service to get you started, and a low-cost way to grow from there. A truly scalable professional version will follow soon after.
Ape project - open source Ajax Push Engine streaming comet server. Uses javascript on the client side. Looks interesting.
The much hyped WolframAlpha search engine computational knowledge engine launched last night. This is from the makers of the truly mind blowing Mathmatica software, and is in some ways an extension of those ideas.
I haven't had time to play around with it much, but for sure it's worth a look. The UI is very nice, no doubt about it. But some of the hyperbolic claims of it's makers I'm guessing will turn out to not be true. Still, this looks like it might be a very useful tool.
Had a few minutes of down time just now. Still investigating. Something made MySQL eat up all CPU time. Didn't have to reboot though. I eventually got in via SSH and just restarted Apache which seemed to do it.
I've become a big fan of Stack Overflow where users ask programming questions in a host of different categories and other users answer. Good answers are voted up, and the whole thing is group editable a la wikipedia. Loaded with good info and everything is presented with a nice clean design. Incredibly useful. It's my number one trouble shooting resource now.