Tuesday, 3rd April 2007
phpsh. An interactive shell for PHP, developed at Facebook and written mostly in Python. Facebook are really pushing their open-source stuff at the moment.
9:43 am
Ekranoplan! Crazy awesome Soviet “ground effect” vehicle, visible in dry dock on Google Maps.
10:04 am
Lawrence Journal-World Marketplace (via) While other newspapers complain about competition from the internet, my former employer is embracing it. This is why local newspapers still matter.
10:15 am
Ext JS. Jack Slocum is building a business around his excellent Ext JavaScript library (which can now run on top of YUI, jQuery or Prototype). The library itself is LGPL, but you can pay for a commercial license and support.
10:11 pm
mail rail on Flickr (via) Photos of the Royal Mail’s private underground railway, sadly closed in 2003.
11:02 pm
Mass Video Conversion Using AWS. How to use S3, SQS, EC2, ffmpeg and some Python to bulk convert videos with Amazon Web Services.
11:44 pm