November 2006
Nov. 14, 2006
Ruthless enough for a startup? Quite depressing reading.
Nov. 15, 2006
WriteRoom
I had a look at WriteRoom a few months ago and wasn’t impressed, but Leonard just convinced me to give it another look and I’m completely sold. It’s a free text editor for OS X with two killer features:
[... 157 words]Graded Browser Support: Q4 Update. Opera 9 Mac is now A-Grade.
Nov. 16, 2006
Firebug 1.0 preview. With network profiling inspired by Tamper Data!
Get the most out of generic views in Django. Awesome tip re-inforcing the power of wrappers around generic views.
Nov. 17, 2006
svnrepo 0.1. A Pythonic API to svn, wrapped around the low-level svn bindings.
New World Notes on the Second Life CopyBot controversy. Absolutely fascinating, especially the in-game protests.
Django on OS X setup notes. MySQLdb currently depends on Python 2.3.3 or higher.
Freeing the postcode
UK postcodes have some interesting characteristics: a full six character post code identifies an average of around 14 house holds, and postcodes are mainly hierarchical—W1W will always be contained within W1 for example. They’re useful for a huge range of interesting things.
[... 295 words]Nov. 18, 2006
Introducing the Technorati Link Count Widget. I’m trying this out; it’s pretty sweet. Nicely unobtrusive too.
minimock. Python mock object library for use with doctest, in 25 lines of code.
Nov. 19, 2006
How To Subclass The JavaScript Array Object. Utterly brilliant—create a fresh copy of Array in an iframe and customise that.
Nov. 20, 2006
The continued adventures of the Permalink slideshow. Now powered in part by YUI.
Donut Robot of Love 2000 (via) IM ON UR ROBOT EATIN UR DONUTZ (scroll to comments)
The top 10 arguments against DRM. Includes some good business arguments I hadn’t heard before.
TheyWorkForYou.co.nz. Rob McKinnon’s site for tracking New Zealand’s Parliament.
Nov. 21, 2006
Flickr Camera Finder. I hadn’t seen this; includes some really nice graphs.
bbum: How to harvest a turkey. Fascinating, if a little graphic.
Zhongdian. Ping’s continuing adventures in China.
Nov. 22, 2006
Natalie Downe: Inline image quotes. Neat CSS trick this one.
The Spam Farms of the Social Web. Really interesting exposé by Niall Kennedy.
Rich-Media Delivery In Second Life—A HOWTO. Second Life supports SMIL, via QuickTime.
Nov. 23, 2006
Riding Rails: Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 1. Highlights include REST, resources and unicode support.
Nov. 24, 2006
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security. Thought provoking.
Nov. 25, 2006
15-second delay. Train doors driven by GPS have a manual over-ride for covered stations.
Resizable Reloaded—A reusable component for resizing elements. Another useful YUI widget from Jack Slocum, with a clear and well designed API.
Hex Fiend Developers Overview. Best code documentation I’ve seen in ages.
Nov. 26, 2006
’Pump-and-Dump’ Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders. Many people I’ve talked to have noticed an up-surge in spam recently. This could be why.
Inside World of Warcraft Gold Farm, Future of Work. Half a million (!) people make a living farming gold in World of Warcraft.
python-dateutil. A bunch of useful datetime extensions, including recurrence rules and date parsing.