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Sunday, 7th January 2007

More home improvements

I’ve had an offline Christmas, not entirely through choice (broadband at my Dad’s new place in rural France isn’t working yet) but welcome. I did have my laptop with me, and I’m using Bazaar for version control so being offline isn’t a barrier to checking in code. I’ve just rolled out a bunch of new features that I put together over the past few days.

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DjangoID. Django-based OpenID server for hosting your own (or someone else’s) identity.

# 9:54 pm / django, openid

Groovy 1.0 is done. They finally got to 1.0!

# 10:18 pm / groovy, java

Browser Cache Usage—Exposed! Includes real numbers for browser cache usage on some of Yahoo!’s most popular pages.

# 10:20 pm / cache, performance, yahoo

OpenID for non-SuperUsers. Sam Ruby explains the key concepts of OpenID that many first-time users tend to miss.

# 10:21 pm / openid, sam-ruby

Why don't we have a .bank or .bank.country_code TLD that's regulated by the same people that regulate the banks themselves?

Dean Wilson

# 10:22 pm / deanwilson, phishing, security

The Dojo Offline Toolkit. The Dojo Offline Toolkit will be a small, cross-platform, generic download that enables web applications to work offline.

# 10:24 pm / dojo, javascript, offline

Writing a Jokosher extension. I like the way API calls are made through an API object passed to the extension’s startup function.

# 10:25 pm / api, jokosher, python, stuart-langridge

MoneySavingExpert. Don’t let the cheesy design fool you; this site actually has some really useful (apparently trustworthy) UK personal finance advice.

# 10:32 pm / personalfinance, uk

The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it because you're coming from digg.com and the proprieter of this system is frankly terrified by you people.

Ryan Tomayko

# 10:34 pm / digg, funny, ryan-tomayko

ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens). Lost your password? Create a new profile; you had too many friends you didn’t know anyway.

# 10:37 pm / danah-boyd, myspace, passwords, teens