Being ever on the lookout for cool technologies, I stumbled upon the wonderful new language 'Go'. Developed by Google as a means of combatting the flaws and shortcomings of current languages such as Java and C++ when it comes to highly concurrent requirements.
Boxen is a new tool that allows new Macs to be quickly set-up using the same technologies that sysops have become accustomed to, Puppet. Now Puppet has it's own language to define what actions are executed on target machine. It was originally developed to help prepare cloud servers for easier management/deployment.
PHP frameworks are all over the web currently with new ones cropping up more and more. We have the golden oldies with Zend, CodeIgniter and CakePHP but now we are also faced with the new kids on the block with Symfony and todays topic - Laravel.