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3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference. “Registration is via a confidential money transfer.”
Index of /drupal/modules/openid. Drupal’s OpenID implementation in CVS.
Drupal 6 and OpenID. “The implementation is all Drupal native code—no third party libraries were used.”
SELECT * FROM everything, or why databases are awesome. I’m beginning to think that for scalable applications the thinner your ORM is the better—if you even use one at all.
The State of Proxy Caching. If you’ve always wondered exactly what intermediate proxies are going to do to your carefully constructed Web application, here’s your answer.
RESTify DayTrader. Killer REST case study from Joe Gregorio.
Yet another one more thing... a new Web Inspector! I installed the latest nightly but I couldn’t find the inspector (or work out how to turn on the debug menu). Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
The Sarcastic Gamer: MS Surface. “Your next computer will be a big-ass table.”
Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days. Absolutely incredible feat of software engineering by Miguel de Icaza and the Moonlight team.
Django-fr. Community site for French language Django developers. They’ve already made a promising start on translating the documentation.
Crowd 1.1.0 Release Notes. Atlassian software are now offering a commercial OpenID provider, with the ability to hook in to an existing LDAP directory and some smart whitelist / blacklist options.
VeriSign OpenID 1.1 Non-Assertion Covenant (via) VeriSign join Sun Microsystems in providing patent protection for OpenID.
Python 3000 Status Update. Doesn’t look like we’ll get multiline lambdas, but the other stuff looks great. I’m not looking forward to years of Python 2 and Python 3 co-existing and splitting the community though (ala PHP 4 and 5).
Washington Post and Facebook. Deryck Hodge on hacking against Facebook API using Django.
What I did at Hack Day. John McKerrell made a tool for updating your FireEagle location through a DNS query, useful for sneaking around for-pay WiFi nodes.
FireEagle. Location broker API, launched at Hack Day London. I worked on an early version of this before leaving Yahoo! back in January—great to see it out.
I can’t believe it’s all over! Hack Day London rocked.
How to travel by train from London to Vilnius. Nat and I are thinking about doing this for EuroPython. Could be a bit of an adventure.
HTML5 differences from HTML4. Useful guide, collated by Anne van Kesteren.
About Mezzoblue. Dave Shea’s blog archive is really classy, in particular the way bundles of posts around a single photo share a colour scheme derived from the image.
Making the “24-hour newsroom” work (via) More on the Lawrence Journal-World, this time from the point of view of the reporters in the newsroom.
Safari Beta 3.0.1 for Windows. A nice fast turnaround on fixes for security flaws in the beta.
Let’s All Evolve Past This: The Barriers Women Face in Tech Communities. The most enlightening contribution I’ve seen on this topic in ages.
iLike: Holy cow... 6mm users and growing 300k/day! (via) Facebook platform offers a viral distribution mechanism for free. Downside: you have to double your capacity every few days.
The Facebook Platform wiki (via) Not very well promoted yet.
A JavaScript Module Pattern. I’ve been using this pattern for a few months—it works really well, though I tend to keep my own code in my own namespace rather than adding it to YAHOO.
Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours (via) Once again, down to handling of alternative URL protocol schemes.
Enabling the debug menu on Safari for Windows. “Turn off site-specific hacks” is one of the menu options.
Safari 3 Public Beta. Safari for Windows. Unfortunately this kills the best excuse corporate Web developers had for getting Macs (“we need to run all our supported browsers on one machine”).
Mac OS X Leopard: UNIX. Leopard ships with DTrace, and it’s been hooked in to Java, Ruby, Python and Perl.