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A Second Life teaser. Matt’s made a 3D printer.
Dunstan Orchard working for Flickr. Awesome!
Y! Cool Thing: Mapping The Globe. Yahoo! finally adds international maps, with great coverage.
Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony. Top reason for the decision was the excellent documentation.
How the news breaks. Awesome digital duct tape.
Tamarin Project (via) Adobe open source their excellent ECMAScript VW (from Flash).
Stackless Python Continues to Amaze. Tasklet pickle/resume works across different computer architectures.
PHP: JSON Functions. Now bundled in PHP 5. A great way to move data from PHP to some other language.
Cleaner Callbacks With Partial Application. Smart tip from Dan Webb.
Python Standard Encodings. “I didn’t know you could do this”.encode(“rot13”).encode(“zlib”)
The Django Book. Two chapters online so far; more to follow.
A9 Maps are no longer available. That’s a shame; they were reall cool (had photos of the streets).
Real-Time 3D in Javascript. Really cunning trick based around CSS polygons.
Rafe Colburn: The secret of YouTube. YouTube acts like a Wikipedia for important video snippets.
Mark Pilgrim’s definition of User-generated content. “You make all the content, and we keep all the money”. Ouch!
Jon Udell’s The Screening Room: Dabble DB. Not quite as impactful as a “live” demo, but still really impressive.
WSGI Wiki: url_vars specification. Another neat piece of the WSGI puzzle, has the potential to play nicely with Django.
Event Delegation versus Event Handling. Nice summary of this important DOM technique.
Change in funding from UK local governments to the Ordinance Survey. “I don’t know what to make of this, but it seems important.”
Django on IronPython (via) The text is in Japanese, but the screenshot is universal.
Neil Fraser: Googled. I’m obviously not the only person who thought MobWrite was total genius.
Menuism on Y! BBAuth. 70% of new users chose to use their Yahoo! account rather than create a new one.
Google buy JotSpot. JotSpot is one of my favourite startups; excellent news.
Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal. From an anonymous source, but fascinating if true.
Optimizing Page Load Time. Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips.
Optimizing Page Load Time. Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips.
Why Tim Berners-Lee is Wrong. Elliotte thinks XHTML is not the problem. I’m not convinced.
edparsons.com. Ed Parsons is CTO at Ordinance Survey, and has a really interesting weblog.
New Popular Edition Maps. UK maps from the 1940s. Go add your postcode!
Subversion branching quick start. Ned Batchelder’s branching tutorial.