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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.
Mac OS X Leopard: Multicore. “... NSOperation, a breakthrough new API that optimizes applications for the world of multicore processing.”
The logo is still evolving, say designers. The Olympics logo is designed to be “hackable”—which is actually a great idea, but lawyers advised against unveiling that concept at the same time as the abstract shapes.
@media 2007 writeup from AlastairC. Good notes on a bunch of sessions, including mine.
ECMAScript 4 Reference Implementation. Including discussion of the benefits of writing it in Standard ML.
Croquet. Open-source collaborative virtual world environment built on top of Squeak, a bit like a decentralised version of Second Life.
Doing Local Right. The slides from my presentation at @media 2007.
google-diff-match-patch (via) Robust algorithms to perform the operations required for synchronizing plain text, in Java, JavaScript and Python.
10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head (via) A great list, with a positive conclusion.