update practices and stacks. prep for release candidate.

app/pages/practices.jade

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     * Pragmatic Craftsmanship (see The Pragmatic Programmer, Code Complete)
     * The #1 primary mandate of the software engineer is managing complexity
     * Simple, small, consistent tools
-        * Small languages that foster consistency such as CoffeeScript or Python
+        * Small languages that foster consistency such as Python, jade
         * One and preferably only one good way to do it
-        * Significant white space fosters consistency, so I use it
+        * Significant white space fosters consistency, so I am in favor of it
         * Small core library plus good package management such as node.js with npm
         * Big, complex, heterogeneous languages like Perl and Ruby aren't compatible with my general orientation (but I will code in Ruby when appropriate)
     * Correctness and clarity are king
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ block body
 
     ##Programming Paradigm
 
-    * Multi-paradigm taking the best elements of procedural, functional, object oriented
+    * Multi-paradigm taking the best elements of functional, procedural, object oriented
+    * Functional programming is the dominant paradigm in my mind these days
     * Pure functional with no side effects has great testability
     * Use built-in data structures (lists, maps) for simple cases, but go to objects as soon as it is non-trivial
     * Encapsulation and composition as opposed to complex inheritence hierarchy
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ block body
     * Factories as opposed to fixtures
     * Test only the first-party code written for this application
     * A small handful of end to end system tests
-    * phantomjs for headless system test automation
+    * If running tests gets slow, it's probably time to split the project into smaller modules
 
     ##Process
 
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     * Clear development, staging, production environments from day one
     * Staging means production minus users
     * Should be able to rebuild entire app infrastructure with code and docs in the main source code repository
-    * [Git Flow](http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/) branch management structure
     * [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/)
     * Modified [12-Factor](http://www.12factor.net/) principles

app/pages/stacks.jade

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     * App Server: [Express](http://expressjs.com/)
     * Views: [Jade](http://jade-lang.com/)
     * CSS: [Stylus](http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/)
-    * Tests: [mocha](http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/)
+    * Tests: [mocha](http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/) and [karma](http://karma-runner.github.io/0.12/index.html)
     * Control Flow: [async](https://github.com/caolan/async)
     * Utility: [lodash](http://lodash.com/)
+    * Logging: [bunyan](https://www.npmjs.org/package/bunyan)
+    * Configuration: [config3](https://github.com/focusaurus/config3)
 
     ## Browser
 
     * [angular.js](http://angularjs.org/)
     * [backbone.js](http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/), [lodash.js](https://github.com/lodash/lodash)
     * [vanilla.js](http://vanilla-js.com/) when convenient. Otherwise [jQuery](http://jquery.org/).
+    * [browserify](http://browserify.org) for bundling JavaScript for the browser
 
     ## Utility
 
     * Web Server: [nginx](http://nginx.org/)
     * Monitoring: [monit](http://mmonit.com/monit/)
     * Email: [exim](http://www.exim.org/)
-    * Startup: [Upstart](http://upstart.ubuntu.com/) scripts
+    * Startup: [Upstart](http://upstart.ubuntu.com/) scripts, and soon systemd
     * Deployment: [Ansible](http://ansibleworks.com)

package.json

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 {
   "name": "peterlyons.com",
   "description": "The Node/Express web app that powers the peterlyons.com web site",
-  "version": "5.0.6",
+  "version": "5.0.4",
   "homepage": "http://peterlyons.com",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",