I’ve been reading up a lot on different ways to manage code using SCM systems because my current ones take way to long to do anything advanced.

• How to use Piston to ease your upgrades – Piston looks like an easy way to work with upstream svn repositories. Currently, I do a huge hack of checking out the trunk from Mephisto and merging in my custom code. On the other hand, moving to git and git-svn might be better in the long run.
• Learning git-svn in 5min – quick writeup on how to use git along with an existing Subversion repository.
• Shoes Meets Merb: Driving a GUI App through Web Services in Ruby – Nice write up of creating a Merb web service. I’m going to have to take a look at Merb soon, it looks like it has a lot of benefits over Rails but is still the Ruby I know and love.