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Dojo 0.9 Update. Big changes are under way in the Dojo camp.

# 29th April 2007, 8:18 pm / alex-russell, dojo, javascript, libraries

Capacity Planning for LAMP (via) John Allspaw’s MySQL Conf 2007 talk on capacity planning (John is Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr).

# 27th April 2007, 8:41 pm / capacity-planning, flickr, john-allspaw, mysql, scaling

I finally get REST. Wow. “The essence of REST is to make the states of the protocol explicit and addressible by URIs.”

# 27th April 2007, 4:17 pm / rest

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).

# 27th April 2007, 4:05 pm / speaking, xtech, xtech2007

hAccessibility. The use of the abbr element in hCalendar causes screen readers to read out an incomprehensible number instead of a date.

# 27th April 2007, 1:07 pm / accessibility, hcalendar, microformats

Adobe open sources Flex. Ted Leung says that this might indicate the possibility of Adobe open sourcing Flash itself in the future.

# 26th April 2007, 11:24 am / adobe, flash, flex, open-source, ted-leung

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.

# 25th April 2007, 11:39 pm / blacklist, commentspam, honeypot, security, spam

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.

# 25th April 2007, 11:37 pm / debugging, nose, pdb, python, testing

Oxford Geek Night videos. The videos from the last Oxford Geek Night have now been posted.

# 25th April 2007, 9:01 pm / oxfordgeeknight2, oxford-geek-nights

Scribd. This appears to be social software for the huge population of people who can’t imagine creating anything without using Word.

# 25th April 2007, 7:22 pm / bemused, scribd, social-software, word

The sliding scale. Jeremy’s write-up of my panel at the Web 2.0 Expo, with illustrative photograph.

# 25th April 2007, 7:09 pm / ajax, javascript, jeremy-keith, speaking, web2expo

The Web Design Survey, 2007. A List Apart is trying to learn more about our community.

# 25th April 2007, 1:47 am / a-list-apart, surveys

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.

# 24th April 2007, 6:50 am / django, logging, python

Cats Can Has Grammar. Anil Dash gives lolcats the analysis they deserve.

# 24th April 2007, 2:02 am / anil-dash, lolcats

CSSEdit 2.5 Out Now! (via) Like John Gruber says, this is the best implementation of application tabs I’ve ever seen.

# 23rd April 2007, 8:26 pm / cssedit, john-gruber, tabs, ui

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.

# 23rd April 2007, 11:56 am / brad-neuberg, dojo, dojooffline, offline

Scaling Twitter (via) Slides from Blaine’s recent talk.

# 23rd April 2007, 11:02 am / blaine-cook, rails, scaling, twitter

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.

# 20th April 2007, 4:47 pm / ie7, internet-explorer, microsoft, testing, virtualization

How to Moderate a Panel. By Derek Powazek. I tried to follow this advice a couple of days ago.

# 20th April 2007, 7:41 am / derek-powazek, moderation, panel, speaking

libketama (via) A consistent hashing algorithm for memcache clients, from the team at last.fm.

# 20th April 2007, 6:50 am / hashing, lastfm, les-orchard, memcache

disinfographics. These really are pretty remarkable.

# 20th April 2007, 4:15 am / disinfographics, michal-migurski

Full Java Stack In Ubuntu. JDK6, Glassfish, NetBeans and Java DB are all available in the Multiverse repository for Ubuntu 7.04.

# 20th April 2007, 12:37 am / java, simon-phipps, ubuntu

The website to web application gradient. Jeremy snapped this cunning illustration at my JavaScript Libraries panel at the Web 2.0 Expo.

# 20th April 2007, 12:30 am / alex-russell, bret-taylor, dojo, flickr, gwt, javascript, jeremy-keith, john-resig, jquery, matt-sweeney, web2expo, web2expo07, yui

The New Upcoming. No more metros! Upcoming is now hooked in to Yahoo!’s WhereOnEarth data, meaning plenty of geocoded brilliance.

# 20th April 2007, 12:13 am / geocoding, upcoming, whereonearth, yahoo

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.

# 19th April 2007, 8:38 am / san-francisco, sushi, yelp

Death and Taxes (via) Beautiful massive zoomable/pannable infographic of the 2008 Federal Discretionary Budget.

# 19th April 2007, 2:37 am / ajax, infographic, javascript, politics

A Hack for Europe! Signups are now open for Hack Day Europe, on June 16th and 17th. You need to apply for an invitation.

# 18th April 2007, 11:24 pm / bbc, bbcbackstage, hackday, tom-coates, yahoo

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.

# 18th April 2007, 5:29 pm / ajax, atom, crossdomain, feed, google, google-reader, javascript, rss, syndication

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