Tech Messages | 2008-07-02

Interesting news from around the web for 2008-07-02:

• The GITS Blog » Six GoF design patterns, Python style
  Design patterns in Python.
• Package System Importance
  Many years ago I managed many servers with absolutely no package system. Every time new software was needed, the latest version was downloaded and compiled. Now, I use Yum on my RHEL servers and Mac Ports on my OS X workstations.
• Google Online Security Blog: Meet ratproxy, our passive web security assessment tool
  Google has released ratproxy to help the web development community analyze potential threats in applications.