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Parallel Python. A simple mechanism for running Python code in parallel across multiple processes and/or machines, based on submitting jobs and retrieving their results.
The Psychology of Security. I haven’t even started on this yet, but I bet it’s worth reading.
.php? .cgi? .who-cares? J-P Stacey argues that “URLs need to be hackable by the developer as well as by the user”. There’s certainly room for improvement in keeping complex URL structures maintainable from a server-side developer’s perspective.
Mono 1.2.3 has been released (via) More importantly, it ships with IronPython in the form of Seo Sanghyeon’s Community Edition.
Add OpenSearch to your site in five minutes. OpenSearch is easy. DeWitt demonstrates how you don’t even need a site search engine to implement it if you take advantage of Google’s site: operator.
First Oxford Geek Night a success! It really was the best evening geek event I’ve been to in a very long time.
The OpenID Directory. A new directory of OpenID consumers and providers. If they can make sure that the listed sites actually let you log in this could become a really valuable resource.
Pipes. New Yahoo! service for combining and remixing Atom/RSS feeds using a really sophisticated drag-and-drop UI.
Why people hate SEO... (and why SMO is bulls$%t). Jason Calacanis explains SMO, or “Social Media Optimisation”—digg spamming now has its own TLA.
method_missing: best saved for last. My least favourite thing about Ruby is the cultural tendency towards introducing weird new bugs in other people’s code.
TurboGears and Pylons (a technical comparison). Ian Bicking explores the differences between the two, and finds that the most significant is probably CherryPy v.s. Paste.
Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs’s ’Thoughts on Music’. John Gruber’s analysis.
Useless Account. “Change your password 1000 times a day... For Free!”
Thoughts on Music. Steve Jobs comes out against DRM, lays the blame squarely on the big four music companies.
CardSpace & OpenID: Working together. A more detailed explanation of what the Microsoft OpenID collaboration actually means.
Microsoft & OpenID. HUGE news. Microsoft are officially supporting OpenID, through integration with CardSpace.
Em Calculator. Tool for working out CSS relative em values, useful for creating completely resizable layouts.
Live DOM Viewer (via) Neat tool from Hixie that provides an insight in to what browsers are actually thinking.
Running the DRM Gauntlet. DRM war stories from the Songbird team. Windows Media and QuickTime both block debuggers in different ways.
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us. Absolutely worth watching—don’t be put off by the title.
The window.onload problem (still). Peter Michaux offers the most comprehensive overview of this important topic to date.
SMTP Service Extension for Yadis Discovery. Could potentially let you use your e-mail address as an OpenID, although personally I wouldn’t always want to hand my address over to third-party sites.
This site may harm your computer. Tom Dyson’s personal weblog was flagged by Google as hosting malicious software, without any clue as to what the problem was. Sure looks like a false positive to me.
A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels. 4000 requests/second on 48 mongrels behind a hardware load balancer.
Linus Torvalds: Super Kernel Sunday! Linux kernel version 2.6.20 is out, and includes virtualization thanks to KVM.
MySpace superworm creator sentenced to probation, community service (via) samy is still my hero.
IronPython URLs. Mark Rees’ and Seo Sanghyeon’s collection of interesting URLs posted to the IronPython mailing list.
Adam Vandenberg on disambiguated URLs. He was fighting for cache-friendly URLs at Encarta Online way back in 1998.
Identifrac (via) Beautiful twist on identicons: use the IP address / other input data as the seed for a fractal.
www. is deprecated. I wouldn’t go as far to say avoid www—just as long as you pick one and redirect the other.