Tuesday, 11th March 2008
Clickpass. Peter Nixey’s new OpenID startup has finally launched—does a great job of making OpenID more approachable with a clean, well designed UI and a neat orange button. # 4:47 pm
Hacking Contributed Models. Neat Django trick using monkeypatching to make some minor tweaks to built-in contributed models such as auth or flatpages. # 5:51 am
python4ply tutorial. python4ply is a parser for Python written in Python using the PLY toolkit, which compiles to Python bytecode using the built-in compiler module. The tutorial shows how to use it to add support for Perl-style 1_000_000 readable numbers. # 5:49 am
In Response to “What Sucks About Erlang”. Yariv Sadan responds to Damien’s criticism. # 5:46 am
What Sucks About Erlang. Damien Katz shares his greatest frustrations from working with Erlang on CouchDB. # 5:45 am
IE8 speeds things up. Steve Souders notes that IE8 downloads script files in parallel before executing them sequentially, giving it a significant speed boost over other browsers that download sequentially. # 5:42 am
The GigaOM Interview: Mark Zuckerberg. Some interesting titbits on Facebook’s architecture. # 5:41 am