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Launching Expectnation. Edd’s conference organisation software. I was a reviewer for XTech and the process was completely painless.
Cross Domain Frame Communication with Fragment Identifiers. Google are using this crazy iframe/fragment trick for their new Mapplets API.
Review Board. VMWare release a slick looking Django-powered code review system, with hooks in to Subversion and Perforce.
Apollo will include Google Gears technology. Looks like Google really worked on the partnerships for this one.
Dojo Offline on Google Gears. “The great news is that the Dojo crew were in the loop wrt this project, and Brad has ported Dojo Offline to use Google Gears as the base platform.”
RSS Bling goes Offline with Google Gears. Google Gears is Google’s new offline JavaScript framework. Dion Almaer (a Google employee) has a nice example of code using Google Gears on Ajaxian.
’tie’ considered harmful (via) Rich Skrenta on the disadvantages of abstractions like Perl’s tie, which lets you create hash data structures that aren’t actually hashes. Operator overloading (as seen in Python) suffers the same problems.
The Google Maps Street View team? They’re posing outside the Googleplex so I’m guessing this is the team that built it.
Howto: Google Maps Street View outside US. Add “&gl=us” at the end of the URL to avoid the evil geo IP restriction and play with Google’s latest toy.
Outcry over TV kidney competition. Reality television is now a parody of itself.
Announcing FOWA Expo—London October 2007. I’m chairing the development track.
Top XSS exploits by PageRank. Yahoo!, MSN, Google, YouTube, MySpace, FaceBook all feature.
XSSed. Cross-site scripting resource and vulnerabilities archive, including reported (unpatched) holes ordered by PageRank.
typogrify (via) “Typogrify is a collection of Django template filters that to help prettify your web typography by preventing ugly quotes and widows and providing CSS hooks to style some special cases.”
Emiller’s Guide To Nginx Module Development. Extremely detailed guide to extending the nginx Web server using C.
Google Image Search does faces (via) The undocumented imgtype=face parameter. Kind of creepy.
PDF Shrink. $35 OS X app that crunches down the size of PDF files—useful if you often embed photos in your presentations.
The movie that time forgot (via) The tragically unmade “Zeppelin vs Pterodactyls”.
Reducing HTTP requests using make. Nice simple recipe for concatenating JavaScript in to one file using make—doesn’t do anything for cache-busting though.
Feedwhip. Create an RSS feed or e-mail alert for changes made to any Web page.
The Data Bill of Rights (via) John Battelle’s inherently sensible “draft of what rights we, as consumers, might demand from companies making hay off the data we create as we trip across the web”.
Levenshtein. Python C extension for Levenshtein distance and other advanced diff functions.
The Truth About Wireless Devices. “After eating babies, the WiFi Routers will grow to enormous size and attack our cities.”
Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children. Ben Goldacre tears the ridiculous Panorama WiFi episode to pieces.
The Oxford Guide free WiFi plotted on Google Maps. The guide offers a geocoded Atom feed which can be directly plotted on a Google Map.
Category Free Wifi on The Oxford Guide (via) More hotspots, this time with RDF, Atom and RSS feeds.
Oxford on hotspotr. Nicely designed community WiFi hotspot site. Only lists two for Oxford at the moment; I plan to add more as I confirm them.
WiFi Hotspots in Oxford. The best list I’ve found, but that’s not saying a lot.
Django unicode-branch: testers wanted. Malcolm’s outstanding work on the unicode branch appears to be nearing completion.
The Twitter API Respects Your Privacy. Not Twitter’s fault: The users who exposed their data through Twittervision had given that site their username and password; Twittervision was failing to hide protected updates.