July 2006
July 18, 2006
ruby_blocks.py. Ian Bicking’s port of Ruby style blocks to Python using decorators.
Ten Things Yahoo! Is Already Doing with the YUI Library. A good answer to a Frequently Asked question.
July 19, 2006
Must Ignore vs. Microformats (via) Interesting perspective from Elliotte Rusty Harold.
Paying the top DIGG/REDDIT/Flickr/Newsvine users (or “$1,000 a month for doing what you’re already doing.”). Jason Calacanis stirs things up again. Why work for free?
AOL Retention Manual Revealed—37 signals take note. That’s why AOL developed, “Keep It Real”...a set of principles that will drive a world-class Member experience...
Web App Follies: Keep Sites Running Smoothly By Avoiding These 10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls. Holy cow, ASP.NET is complicated.
July 20, 2006
Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music. The fact that it’s an MP3 should cause waves.
Spry framework for Ajax. Another take on declarative Ajax, this time from Adobe.
Spry Data Set and Dynamic Region Overview. This looks surprisingly clever and well designed.
July 23, 2006
XML-RPC servers using Django. Another advantage of the simple Request/Response model.
July 25, 2006
Unit testing asynchronous JavaScript. A better testing API for JavaScript.
Python API for Akismet. My hand-rolled spam prevention works pretty well, but I might give this a try.
The Anti-Web 2.0. Gina Trapani questions the wisdom of only saving your data to the cloud.
httplib2.py. Joe Gregorio’s better HTTP library for Python.
Techa Kucha Night. Tonight. I’m doing one on Functional Programming and JavaScript.
JavaScript Browser detect 2.0. For when object detection isn’t enough. Use with care.
Geek in the Park, 27th August. Looks like good fun—unfortunately I’m away that weekend.
The Daily WTF—Studying at WTF University. Wow. Just wow.
Django now available in Tamil. The work was done by a 14 -person team at a translation workshop.
July 26, 2006
NewsForge | Day one at OSCON. Includes a write-up of Jacob’s Django tutorial.
Ask Later # 1. It rocked. Can’t wait for the next one.
The Wireless Universal Resource File (via) One XML file, information about many wireless devices.
Flickr API + JSON + MochiKit + Django. Short and sweet.
July 27, 2006
Yahoo! Developer Network: The New Multi-Lingual SDK. YDN has an API library for Lua now.
Enumerating JavaScript Objects. More smart stuff from Dean Edwards.
restobook. Python Series 60 + del.icio.us + phone address book = restaurant fun.
WPHP. Run PHP under your Python WSGI app. Not nearly as crazy as it sounds.
July 28, 2006
upcoming-python-api—Google Code. My Upcoming API library, used to test out Google Project Hosting.
Django-powered sites as a mosaic. Nice piece of webkit2png hackery from Jacob.
Greasemonkey 0.6.5—2.0 support and localization. First release in nearly 8 months. Great to see it’s still ticking over.