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The Architecture of Mailinator. 3 million e-mails a day on a 2GHz server with 1GB of RAM.
Marksman Called In To Kill Kingstons Pigeons (via) Best letters-to-the-editor I’ve seen in ages.
Microsoft versus FOSS Configuration Management. Why the Free Software world’s source control works and Vista’s apparently doesn’t.
notes.natbat.net. Nat’s been blogging up a storm recently.
WYMeditor. A semantic rich text editor that appears not to suck!
Recognizing Web 2.0. Kevin Yank has a new and surprisingly non-sucky definition for Web 2.0.
The case for OpenID. I look forward to embracing our OpenID future.
Firebug Lite. Add Firebug to your site for non-Firefox browsers.
Firebug 1.0 Beta. Unbelievably brilliant software. I use this every day.
Yahoo! aerial imagery in OpenStreetMap. Tracing is allowed. This should speed things up an awful lot.
Django on Dreamhost: incomplete headers. Calling your file dispatch.fcgi (as opposed to django.fcgi) fixes the problem.
Using hasLayout to fix bugs in IE. With illustrative screen shots.
Dancing on the Platforms. I stumbled in to this last night.
XSL Flickr. An XSL interface to the Flickr API. It even does auth!
Google Mondrian. Internal Google application, powered in part by Django!
MOBILE CLUBBING. Encountered this yesterday evening at Paddington. Photos on Flickr.
Ocean Waves: the applications built on Seaside (via) An interview with Avi Bryant.
Unicode character information. Useful lookup tool.
Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs. I wish I didn’t need these...
Incompatible SQLite in OS X and Python. I’ve hit this problem; James has the solution.
BuddyLube (warning: plays music). Best. Jingle. Evah.
Including Dojo, The Really Easy Way. Drop in a single include to load code on demand from AOL’s CDN.
ElementTree Text Helper. Monkey patches a textlist() method in to ElementTree.
Frank Wierzbick: I now work for Red Hat (via) Includes news of Jython progress: slots support is in, which hopefully is a solid step towards Python 2.3 compatibility.
python-dateutil. A bunch of useful datetime extensions, including recurrence rules and date parsing.
Inside World of Warcraft Gold Farm, Future of Work. Half a million (!) people make a living farming gold in World of Warcraft.
’Pump-and-Dump’ Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders. Many people I’ve talked to have noticed an up-surge in spam recently. This could be why.
Hex Fiend Developers Overview. Best code documentation I’ve seen in ages.
Resizable Reloaded—A reusable component for resizing elements. Another useful YUI widget from Jack Slocum, with a clear and well designed API.
15-second delay. Train doors driven by GPS have a manual over-ride for covered stations.