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The Architecture of Mailinator. 3 million e-mails a day on a 2GHz server with 1GB of RAM.

# 7th December 2006, 3:11 pm / mailinator, scaling

Marksman Called In To Kill Kingstons Pigeons (via) Best letters-to-the-editor I’ve seen in ages.

# 7th December 2006, 11:50 am / funny, pigeons

Microsoft versus FOSS Configuration Management. Why the Free Software world’s source control works and Vista’s apparently doesn’t.

# 7th December 2006, 9:28 am / microsoft, open-source, sourcecontrol

notes.natbat.net. Nat’s been blogging up a storm recently.

# 7th December 2006, 12:52 am / blogging, natalie-downe

WYMeditor. A semantic rich text editor that appears not to suck!

# 6th December 2006, 4:35 pm / javascript, richtext, semantic

Recognizing Web 2.0. Kevin Yank has a new and surprisingly non-sucky definition for Web 2.0.

# 6th December 2006, 7:39 am / kevin-yank, web2

The case for OpenID. I look forward to embracing our OpenID future.

# 5th December 2006, 1:34 pm / advocacy, openid

Firebug Lite. Add Firebug to your site for non-Firefox browsers.

# 4th December 2006, 2:31 pm / firebug

Firebug 1.0 Beta. Unbelievably brilliant software. I use this every day.

# 4th December 2006, 1:28 pm / extensions, firebug, firefox

Yahoo! aerial imagery in OpenStreetMap. Tracing is allowed. This should speed things up an awful lot.

# 4th December 2006, 1:17 pm / maps, openstreetmap, yahoo

Django on Dreamhost: incomplete headers. Calling your file dispatch.fcgi (as opposed to django.fcgi) fixes the problem.

# 3rd December 2006, 7:04 pm / django, dreamhost

Dancing on the Platforms. I stumbled in to this last night.

# 1st December 2006, 3:47 pm / flashmob

XSL Flickr. An XSL interface to the Flickr API. It even does auth!

# 1st December 2006, 12:20 pm / flickr, xslt

Google Mondrian. Internal Google application, powered in part by Django!

# 1st December 2006, 11:27 am / django, google

MOBILE CLUBBING. Encountered this yesterday evening at Paddington. Photos on Flickr.

# 1st December 2006, 1:11 am / flashmob, flickr

Incompatible SQLite in OS X and Python. I’ve hit this problem; James has the solution.

# 28th November 2006, 5:40 pm / macos, python, sqlite

Including Dojo, The Really Easy Way. Drop in a single include to load code on demand from AOL’s CDN.

# 28th November 2006, 12:22 pm / aol, cdn, dojo, javascript

ElementTree Text Helper. Monkey patches a textlist() method in to ElementTree.

# 27th November 2006, 8:04 pm

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.

# 27th November 2006, 8:03 pm / jython

python-dateutil. A bunch of useful datetime extensions, including recurrence rules and date parsing.

# 26th November 2006, 11:44 pm

Inside World of Warcraft Gold Farm, Future of Work. Half a million (!) people make a living farming gold in World of Warcraft.

# 26th November 2006, 10:11 pm

’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.

# 26th November 2006, 7:20 pm

Hex Fiend Developers Overview. Best code documentation I’ve seen in ages.

# 25th November 2006, 9:38 am

Resizable Reloaded—A reusable component for resizing elements. Another useful YUI widget from Jack Slocum, with a clear and well designed API.

# 25th November 2006, 9:34 am

15-second delay. Train doors driven by GPS have a manual over-ride for covered stations.

# 25th November 2006, 8:59 am

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