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What were the technical limits that Twitter reached with Ruby on Rails?

What were the technical limits that Twitter reached with Ruby on Rails?

Quora question that has some well researched answers.  This is quite handy for any system architect or web developer.

nightrain – PHP packager for native applications on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS

PHP Nightrain is a packager written in Python for the PHP Programming Language. Using this tool you can convert your PHP/HTML/CSS/Javascript application to a Native Desktop Application. Currently, PHP Nightrain supports the Windows, Mac (OS X) and the Linux operating systems.  This is basically PhoneGap for desktop.