Archive for May 2006

May 2006

Sunday, 14th May 2006

“Lock The Vault? What Kind Of Maniac Would Steal Money From A Bank?”. Voting machine company rep rules out possibility of corrupt election officials.

# 7:44 am

JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web. Brendan Eich at The Ajax Experience.

# 8:21 pm

Monday, 15th May 2006

Python Templates. It’s surprising how much work you can get done building on Python’s string interpolation.

# 2:25 pm

Are you generic? More Django for designers, this time from Wilson Miner.

# 2:26 pm

Wednesday, 17th May 2006

Google Web Toolkit—Build AJAX apps in the Java language (via) Write Java that “compiles” to JavaScript and HTML. Weird.

# 7:25 am

Google Web Toolkit is NOT open source. “The GWT Java-to-JavaScript compiler and hosted web browser are shipped binary-only.”

# 8:46 am

Planet XTech: Aggregated coverage of XTech 2006. Simple but very effective conference coverage mashup.

# 2:11 pm

Notes from my Yahoo! UI Library talk

I gave my talk on the Yahoo! User Interface Library here at XTech on Tuesday. There’s so much great stuff in the library that cramming it all in to 45 minutes proved impossible, so I ended up focusing on the utilities (dom, event, connection, animation and dragdrop) and providing an overview of the controls at the end.

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1:48 pm / etech, speaking, my-talks, xtech, yahoo, yui

Tuesday, 23rd May 2006

hCalendar in Endo. Nice screencast of a Microformat consuming feed reader.

# 1:57 pm

Sahi. Neat proxy/JavaScript based web app testing tool.

# 2:09 pm

Wednesday, 24th May 2006

Most Monitors Won’t Play New HD Video. DRM strikes again.

# 9:03 am

Room 641A. Interesting back-of-an-envelope analysis of the NSA domestic spying scandal.

# 6:36 pm

Using TinyMCE in Django’s admin. Using the js admin argument.

# 6:48 pm / django-admin

15 Days Of jQuery. 15 days of tutorials for one of the more quirky JS libraries.

# 7:47 pm

Thursday, 25th May 2006

davidbau.com: Haaarg, world! (via) Really sweet story of teaching a 6 year old Python.

# 11:35 pm

Friday, 26th May 2006

Web APIs, not Web Services

In Web Services are Dead, Long Live Web Services, Mark Nottingham suggests HTTP Web Services as a better phrase for discussing machine-to-machine communication using HTTP where the WS-* stack isn’t assumed.

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9:22 am / language, web-services

IE DOMInspector. Recommended at the London JavaScript night. $69 though.

# 4:55 pm

Travel-time Maps and their Uses. Fascinating concept, beautiful maps.

# 7:22 pm