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A Second Life teaser. Matt’s made a 3D printer.

# 12th November 2006, 9:02 pm

Y! Cool Thing: Mapping The Globe. Yahoo! finally adds international maps, with great coverage.

# 10th November 2006, 10:55 pm / maps, yahoo

Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony. Top reason for the decision was the excellent documentation.

# 9th November 2006, 12:28 pm / php, symfony, yahoo

How the news breaks. Awesome digital duct tape.

# 9th November 2006, 11:40 am

Tamarin Project (via) Adobe open source their excellent ECMAScript VW (from Flash).

# 7th November 2006, 3:23 pm

Stackless Python Continues to Amaze. Tasklet pickle/resume works across different computer architectures.

# 6th November 2006, 3:17 pm

PHP: JSON Functions. Now bundled in PHP 5. A great way to move data from PHP to some other language.

# 3rd November 2006, 12:25 pm / json, php, php5

Python Standard Encodings. “I didn’t know you could do this”.encode(“rot13”).encode(“zlib”)

# 2nd November 2006, 3:59 pm

The Django Book. Two chapters online so far; more to follow.

# 1st November 2006, 2:05 pm

A9 Maps are no longer available. That’s a shame; they were reall cool (had photos of the streets).

# 1st November 2006, 1:43 pm

Real-Time 3D in Javascript. Really cunning trick based around CSS polygons.

# 1st November 2006, 12:21 pm

Rafe Colburn: The secret of YouTube. YouTube acts like a Wikipedia for important video snippets.

# 1st November 2006, 12:19 pm

Mark Pilgrim’s definition of User-generated content. “You make all the content, and we keep all the money”. Ouch!

# 1st November 2006, 12:17 pm / mark-pilgrim

Jon Udell’s The Screening Room: Dabble DB. Not quite as impactful as a “live” demo, but still really impressive.

# 1st November 2006, 12:16 pm / dabbledb, jon-udell

WSGI Wiki: url_vars specification. Another neat piece of the WSGI puzzle, has the potential to play nicely with Django.

# 1st November 2006, 12:15 pm / wsgi

Event Delegation versus Event Handling. Nice summary of this important DOM technique.

# 1st November 2006, 11:47 am

Change in funding from UK local governments to the Ordinance Survey. “I don’t know what to make of this, but it seems important.”

# 1st November 2006, 11:46 am / ordinancesurvey

Django on IronPython (via) The text is in Japanese, but the screenshot is universal.

# 1st November 2006, 11:45 am

Neil Fraser: Googled. I’m obviously not the only person who thought MobWrite was total genius.

# 1st November 2006, 11:42 am / google, neil-fraser

Menuism on Y! BBAuth. 70% of new users chose to use their Yahoo! account rather than create a new one.

# 31st October 2006, 4:51 pm / bbauth, menuism, yahoo

Google buy JotSpot. JotSpot is one of my favourite startups; excellent news.

# 31st October 2006, 2:59 pm

Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal. From an anonymous source, but fascinating if true.

# 31st October 2006, 11:20 am

Optimizing Page Load Time. Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips.

# 31st October 2006, 10:05 am

Optimizing Page Load Time. Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips.

# 31st October 2006, 10:05 am

Why Tim Berners-Lee is Wrong. Elliotte thinks XHTML is not the problem. I’m not convinced.

# 30th October 2006, 5:54 pm / elliotte-rusty-harold, tim-berners-lee, xhtml

edparsons.com. Ed Parsons is CTO at Ordinance Survey, and has a really interesting weblog.

# 29th October 2006, 4:32 pm

New Popular Edition Maps. UK maps from the 1940s. Go add your postcode!

# 29th October 2006, 4:29 pm

Years

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