This morning a tweet alerted me to the fact that Oracle is to acquire Sun and with it MySQL. It led to the blog of Monty (Micheal Widenius, creator of MySQL) where a doom scenario is laid out for the future of MySQL.

It explains how Oracle has been proven unworthy of OpenSource projects by the way they have treated InnoDB and it also explains that the European Commission (EC) has second thoughts about the deal.

I was browsing through my lost tweets and found this tweet by Mojombo, promoting this wonderful idea called Effigy.

I am wonderfully amazed by the simplicity of the concept and wonder why I it hasn't been done before (although Wicket does something similar). It gives true power to the View as seen as part of an MVC framework. The view tends to clutter with Control stuffs, but Effigy might have a good chance of stopping that.

I had to try it immediatly; and hooray! It works!