Wednesday, 1st November 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.