We are proud to announce that RallyClock is the official sponsor of Jobs.Rubynow.com. The job site, run by two former Vermonster team members, is the de-facto website for ruby jobs. We feel this sponsorship exposes RallyClock to a key audience of contractors and employers where time account it critical to their business.

We are really delighted to support the site and their efforts!

A recent Perl-based project called for some parallel processing. I naturally turned first to fork, which I have used successfully in the past. But this time, I needed to share information across the processes - they can’t just run in their isolated worlds. To do this, I had some options, including:

• IPC::Shareable
• subs::parallel
• perl threads
• simple perl fork and pipes

As the title of this article hints, I went with the last one.

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As we continue to work on our time tracking product RallyClock, we are pleased to announce the RallyClock Developers’ Blog and the RallyClock Forums. The names aren’t the most dramatic, we could have used “robots”, “rock stars”, “pirates” or “ninjas” (or a combination thereof, like “Robotic Rockstars vs. Pirate Ninjas”), but decided on more pithy titles - plus they are easier to type.

We have a few new announcements and interesting articles about RallyClock, so stay tuned.

If you have a moment, sign the petition at NoOOMLX.org. The group highlights some valid arguments, including the fact that the Microsoft-driven format does not even validate as XML. We really ought to continue to use the existing Open Document Format as seen in many existing applications like OpenOffice, Abiword KWord and GoogleDocs.