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Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer. It demotivates you when working with less expressive languages.
Markup Maker. Handy tool from Ian Lloyd.
Equal Height Columns using CSS. Some seriously brilliant CSS trickery from Edward Eliot.
Launching the Un-Launch-Able. Dan Theurer explains SSO as enabled by Y! BBAuth.
Yahoo! Browser-Based Authentication (via) This is a Really Big Deal. Yahoo! has over 200 million /active/ user accounts.
Utterly brilliant Vietnamese cut-out art. The more you look at them the cleverer they are.
Introducing WSGI: Python’s Secret Web Weapon. Every Python web developer should understand WSGI.
geopy—Geocoding Toolbox for Python. Geocoder classes for Google, Yahoo!, Virtual Earth and more.
London Python Meetup, Wednesday the 4th of October. At The Stage Door in Waterloo.
Good Agile, Bad Agile. Includes interesting insight in to Google development processes.
No More IE6 Background Flicker. Hedger’s suggested JS fix. Not sure if I like the object detection he uses though.
Better Metrics for Security—Understanding the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Mozilla defends against yet more spurious bug count reports.
Cross-document messaging in Opera. Another interesting Opera feature based on WHAT WG work.
for in Intrigue. Douglas Crockford explains the need for hasOwnProperty in JavaScript.
Adobe Open Source Libraries: Overview. Technology used for the Photoshop UI. Really interesting stuff.
PHP, XML, and Character Encodings. This caught me out earlier today.
Practical PHP Programming. Free online PHP book, by the author of PHP in a Nutshell.
Flickr: Photos from Space Explorer. Space tourist with a Flickr photo stream.
Windows XP Privilege Escalation Exploit. Trivial exploit using the at command.
Jython changelog. Plenty of signs of life here.
Introducing MobMart. New UK mobile/auction startup, powered by Django.
Ajax Buzzword Bingo (via) Nice demo of five different Ajax transport methods.
Yahoo! UI Extensions Library Release .32. Jack Slocum is doing some really awesome things on top of YUI.
(UNCLASSIFIED) RSS and Atom Considerations: Moving Toward Atom (via) The US intelligence community argues for Atom.
The Web is a Pipe. I just saw Duncan talk about this at Euro RailsConf—really, really important concepts here.
Google Code projects labeled django. Wow, there’s 39 of them already!
Design patterns of 1972 (via) Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages.
nginx: reverse proxy panacea. Another event loop based web server to keep an eye on.
Bletchley hums again to the Turing Bombe. They’ve rebuilt Alan Turing’s computer. Awesome.
Ruby and Strongtalk. Dynamic language function calls don’t have to be slow.