November 2006
Nov. 1, 2006
Neil Fraser: Googled. I’m obviously not the only person who thought MobWrite was total genius.
Django on IronPython (via) The text is in Japanese, but the screenshot is universal.
Change in funding from UK local governments to the Ordinance Survey. “I don’t know what to make of this, but it seems important.”
Event Delegation versus Event Handling. Nice summary of this important DOM technique.
WSGI Wiki: url_vars specification. Another neat piece of the WSGI puzzle, has the potential to play nicely with Django.
Jon Udell’s The Screening Room: Dabble DB. Not quite as impactful as a “live” demo, but still really impressive.
Mark Pilgrim’s definition of User-generated content. “You make all the content, and we keep all the money”. Ouch!
Rafe Colburn: The secret of YouTube. YouTube acts like a Wikipedia for important video snippets.
Real-Time 3D in Javascript. Really cunning trick based around CSS polygons.
A9 Maps are no longer available. That’s a shame; they were reall cool (had photos of the streets).
The Django Book. Two chapters online so far; more to follow.
Nov. 2, 2006
Python Standard Encodings. “I didn’t know you could do this”.encode(“rot13”).encode(“zlib”)
Nov. 3, 2006
Cleaner Callbacks With Partial Application. Smart tip from Dan Webb.
PHP: JSON Functions. Now bundled in PHP 5. A great way to move data from PHP to some other language.
Nov. 6, 2006
Stackless Python Continues to Amaze. Tasklet pickle/resume works across different computer architectures.
Nov. 7, 2006
Tamarin Project (via) Adobe open source their excellent ECMAScript VW (from Flash).
Nov. 9, 2006
How the news breaks. Awesome digital duct tape.
Tamarin
On Tuesday, the Mozilla Foundation and Adobe announced the Tamarin project, an open-source ECMAScript virtual machine based on the ActionScript engine used by Flash Player 9.
[... 380 words]Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony. Top reason for the decision was the excellent documentation.
Nov. 10, 2006
Y! Cool Thing: Mapping The Globe. Yahoo! finally adds international maps, with great coverage.
Nov. 12, 2006
Dunstan Orchard working for Flickr. Awesome!
A Second Life teaser. Matt’s made a 3D printer.
Concerned is over. Now you can read the whole thing through from the start!
Nov. 13, 2006
Java Is Free. GPL2 no less. Getting Jython up to speed is now even more important.
Avi Bryant: smalltalk.rb. Bootstrapping Ruby on a Smalltalk VM in 65 lines of code (using JRuby).
Sun open sources Java SE, ME, and Glassfish under GPLv2 (via) Pretty detailed analysis, including why they chose GPLv2.
Spiritual Research into Addictions. This gets increasingly crazy as you scroll down the page.
JavaScript, We Hardly new Ya. When to use the new keyword, by Douglas Crockford.
Ryan Tomayko: Shackled But Free. Did you know James Gosling caused the creation of the GPL?
Nov. 14, 2006
UK copyright law petition. New official petition system from MySociety.