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Dojo 0.9 Update. Big changes are under way in the Dojo camp.
Capacity Planning for LAMP (via) John Allspaw’s MySQL Conf 2007 talk on capacity planning (John is Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr).
I finally get REST. Wow. “The essence of REST is to make the states of the protocol explicit and addressible by URIs.”
XTech 2007 Registration. Deadline for online registrations is 2nd May. It looks like it’ll be a really good conference this year (disclaimer: I’m speaking).
hAccessibility. The use of the abbr element in hCalendar causes screen readers to read out an incomprehensible number instead of a date.
Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages (via) Great for unicode testing.
Adobe open sources Flex. Ted Leung says that this might indicate the possibility of Adobe open sourcing Flash itself in the future.
Introducing http:BL (via) Project Honey Pot announce a new blacklist service for blocking comment spammers and e-mail spiders using information from their network of honey pots.
The joy of pdb.set_trace(). I use nosetests --pdb-failures as my main entrypoint for Python debugging—it starts the debugger at the first failing test.
Oxford Geek Night videos. The videos from the last Oxford Geek Night have now been posted.
Scribd. This appears to be social software for the huge population of people who can’t imagine creating anything without using Word.
The sliding scale. Jeremy’s write-up of my panel at the Web 2.0 Expo, with illustrative photograph.
The Web Design Survey, 2007. A List Apart is trying to learn more about our community.
Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today (via) Sound advice from Dustin Diaz, who is now a Googler.
django-logging. Looks neat—includes the ability to use Python’s standard logging module to log messages to a footer appended to your site’s HTML output.
Cats Can Has Grammar. Anil Dash gives lolcats the analysis they deserve.
CSSEdit 2.5 Out Now! (via) Like John Gruber says, this is the best implementation of application tabs I’ve ever seen.
The Dojo Offline Toolkit (via) A small client runtime provides a proxy server which offline applications can use to store data; a client library provides code for online/offline detection and data synchronisation.
Scaling Twitter (via) Slides from Blaine’s recent talk.
Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (via) Microsoft have made free VPC images of IE 6 and IE 7 available for testing, but they expire in August.
How to Moderate a Panel. By Derek Powazek. I tried to follow this advice a couple of days ago.
disinfographics. These really are pretty remarkable.
Full Java Stack In Ubuntu. JDK6, Glassfish, NetBeans and Java DB are all available in the Multiverse repository for Ubuntu 7.04.
The website to web application gradient. Jeremy snapped this cunning illustration at my JavaScript Libraries panel at the Web 2.0 Expo.
The New Upcoming. No more metros! Upcoming is now hooked in to Yahoo!’s WhereOnEarth data, meaning plenty of geocoded brilliance.
Minako Organic Japanese Restaurant. On 18th and Mission in San Francisco. We ate there this evening—the meal took three hours and was worth every minute.
Death and Taxes (via) Beautiful massive zoomable/pannable infographic of the 2008 Federal Discretionary Budget.
A Hack for Europe! Signups are now open for Hack Day Europe, on June 16th and 17th. You need to apply for an invitation.
Google AJAX Feed API (via) Simple cross-domain proxy to allow JavaScript to access any publically addressable syndication feed, with the same logic as Google Reader providing normalisation.