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November 2006

Nov. 1, 2006

Neil Fraser: Googled. I’m obviously not the only person who thought MobWrite was total genius.

# 11:42 am

Django on IronPython (via) The text is in Japanese, but the screenshot is universal.

# 11:45 am

Change in funding from UK local governments to the Ordinance Survey. “I don’t know what to make of this, but it seems important.”

# 11:46 am / ordinancesurvey

Event Delegation versus Event Handling. Nice summary of this important DOM technique.

# 11:47 am

WSGI Wiki: url_vars specification. Another neat piece of the WSGI puzzle, has the potential to play nicely with Django.

# 12:15 pm

Jon Udell’s The Screening Room: Dabble DB. Not quite as impactful as a “live” demo, but still really impressive.

# 12:16 pm / jon-udell, dabbledb

Mark Pilgrim’s definition of User-generated content. “You make all the content, and we keep all the money”. Ouch!

# 12:17 pm

Rafe Colburn: The secret of YouTube. YouTube acts like a Wikipedia for important video snippets.

# 12:19 pm

Real-Time 3D in Javascript. Really cunning trick based around CSS polygons.

# 12:21 pm

A9 Maps are no longer available. That’s a shame; they were reall cool (had photos of the streets).

# 1:43 pm

The Django Book. Two chapters online so far; more to follow.

# 2:05 pm

Nov. 2, 2006

Python Standard Encodings. “I didn’t know you could do this”.encode(“rot13”).encode(“zlib”)

# 3:59 pm

Nov. 3, 2006

Cleaner Callbacks With Partial Application. Smart tip from Dan Webb.

# 9:58 am

PHP: JSON Functions. Now bundled in PHP 5. A great way to move data from PHP to some other language.

# 12:25 pm / json, php, php5

Nov. 6, 2006

Stackless Python Continues to Amaze. Tasklet pickle/resume works across different computer architectures.

# 3:17 pm

Nov. 7, 2006

Tamarin Project (via) Adobe open source their excellent ECMAScript VW (from Flash).

# 3:23 pm

Nov. 9, 2006

How the news breaks. Awesome digital duct tape.

# 11:40 am

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.

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Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony. Top reason for the decision was the excellent documentation.

# 12:28 pm / yahoo, php, symfony

Nov. 10, 2006

Y! Cool Thing: Mapping The Globe. Yahoo! finally adds international maps, with great coverage.

# 10:55 pm / yahoo, maps

Nov. 12, 2006

A Second Life teaser. Matt’s made a 3D printer.

# 9:02 pm

Concerned is over. Now you can read the whole thing through from the start!

# 9:15 pm

Nov. 13, 2006

Java Is Free. GPL2 no less. Getting Jython up to speed is now even more important.

# 7:35 am

Avi Bryant: smalltalk.rb. Bootstrapping Ruby on a Smalltalk VM in 65 lines of code (using JRuby).

# 11:16 am

Sun open sources Java SE, ME, and Glassfish under GPLv2 (via) Pretty detailed analysis, including why they chose GPLv2.

# 11:46 am

Spiritual Research into Addictions. This gets increasingly crazy as you scroll down the page.

# 11:54 am

JavaScript, We Hardly new Ya. When to use the new keyword, by Douglas Crockford.

# 5:35 pm

Ryan Tomayko: Shackled But Free. Did you know James Gosling caused the creation of the GPL?

# 6:29 pm

Nov. 14, 2006

UK copyright law petition. New official petition system from MySociety.

# 11:38 am

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