distributed version control

• http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
• http://hginit.com/
• http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/

javascript and CSS variations

• http://weepy.github.com/kaffeine/
• http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

• http://softwareas.com/comparing-coffeescript-and-kaffeine

• http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/

• http://functionsource.com/post/nib-le-your-way-to-css-extension