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##Welcome to the Union of RAD

The _Union of RAD_ is a community of developers dedicated to helping each other write better software.

This is the home for a new set of [wiki:/projects projects], currently based on the Lithium framework.

###Lithium
A php 5.3 only framework built for speed, simplicity, and maintainability. Check out the [wiki:/lithium source].

You get some things for free
 
- lightweight test suite
  - with code coverage and profiling filters
- automatic api documentation using [wiki:/li3_docs li3_docs] plugins 
- easy integration with other libraries courtesy of the Libraries class and namespaces in 5.3
- method filters with closures

A few examples are also available:

- [wiki:/lithium_mongo lithium_mongo] : MongoDB admin.
- [wiki:/lithium_bin lithium_bin]: CouchDB paste bin.
- [wiki:/lithium_anologue lithium_anologue] : CouchDB chat.