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How to convert a VMWare virtual appliance to work with Parallels. Anyone know the best option for creating a virtual machine that can easily be used by Parallels and VMWare alike?
My Google Tech Talk on OpenID. I gave this extended and improved version of my “Implications of OpenID” talk at Google on Monday. Fast turnaround on the video!
OpenID: Why, how, 37signals. 37signals just enabled OpenID on Basecamp as well as Highrise. This is their excellent attempt at explaining its benefits.
Django status update: June 26. Outstanding detailed overview of recent happenings in the Django community, courtesy of Clint Ecker.
Importing your social network from other sites. Dopplr now does this from GMail, Twitter, vCard or hCard and XFN. I’m convinced that contact import is a killer app for OpenID.
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.