March 2005
March 23, 2005
How to really confuse your party guests. A normal room?
The Path of Least Resistance. This was one of the most interesting issues raised at SxSW.
PyCon 2005 photos. I’ve started uploading to Flickr.
Greaseblog (via) The weblog about greasemonkey
March 25, 2005
JavaScript Breakpoints. Another brilliant piece of JavaScript hackery from Steve Yen.
Luminocity OpenGL Videos. These are pretty cool.
scrape.py. A clever Python screen-scraping module, with similarities to WWW::Mechanize.
Jeffrey Veen: State-of-the-art interactivity? All-Flash sites still suck.
tpp—text presentation program. s5 is old hat: this ncurses-based presentation program runs in a terminal.
March 28, 2005
PyCon observations
I’m back from my two week stint in the US, and currently suffering from vicious jet-lag (my body wants me to go to sleep at 5am and wake up just past noon). Herewith some observations on PyCon, SxSW and the differences between the two.
[... 791 words]thunk.py. Fun Python hack for use with map() and filter().
March 29, 2005
Drag-and-drop Sortable Lists with JavaScript and CSS. I built something very similar to this last year at the Journal-World.
Google Acquires Urchin (via) I’ve used Urchin, and it’s a very decent piece of software.
March 30, 2005
Five-minute Multimethods in Python. A nice decorator example from Guido.
[delicious-discuss] big news. Joshua has funding, and is now working on del.icio.us full time.
Greasemonkey as a lightweight intermediary
In The architecture of intermediation, Jon Udell discusses the need for a mechanism for a high-level tool for adding custom features to web applications. In Jon’s case, he wants to add a private bookmarks feature to del.icio.us. Jon thought about using a web proxy to intercept and modify del.icio.us pages, but ruled it out as too low-level.
[... 354 words]On Plug-ins and Extensible Architectures. To read.
Ajax forest, Remote Scripting trees. Brent Ashley, father of the JSRS library, kicks in on Ajax.
March 31, 2005
Where the eye falls. Cool graphic showing an eye tracker study of a Google search results page.
Web Technology Put To Good Use (via) Ben Brown explains how tags will get you laid on his new dating site, Consumating.