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Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer. It demotivates you when working with less expressive languages.

# 2nd October 2006, 12:20 pm

Markup Maker. Handy tool from Ian Lloyd.

# 2nd October 2006, 12:09 pm

Equal Height Columns using CSS. Some seriously brilliant CSS trickery from Edward Eliot.

# 2nd October 2006, 11:46 am

Launching the Un-Launch-Able. Dan Theurer explains SSO as enabled by Y! BBAuth.

# 29th September 2006, 7:28 pm

Yahoo! Browser-Based Authentication (via) This is a Really Big Deal. Yahoo! has over 200 million /active/ user accounts.

# 29th September 2006, 7:21 pm / bbauth, yahoo, ydn

Utterly brilliant Vietnamese cut-out art. The more you look at them the cleverer they are.

# 28th September 2006, 4:40 pm / art

Introducing WSGI: Python’s Secret Web Weapon. Every Python web developer should understand WSGI.

# 28th September 2006, 2:24 pm / python, wsgi

geopy—Geocoding Toolbox for Python. Geocoder classes for Google, Yahoo!, Virtual Earth and more.

# 28th September 2006, 11:16 am

Good Agile, Bad Agile. Includes interesting insight in to Google development processes.

# 27th September 2006, 3:10 pm / agile, google, process, steve-yegge

No More IE6 Background Flicker. Hedger’s suggested JS fix. Not sure if I like the object detection he uses though.

# 27th September 2006, 10:47 am

Cross-document messaging in Opera. Another interesting Opera feature based on WHAT WG work.

# 26th September 2006, 7:41 pm

for in Intrigue. Douglas Crockford explains the need for hasOwnProperty in JavaScript.

# 26th September 2006, 7:39 pm

Adobe Open Source Libraries: Overview. Technology used for the Photoshop UI. Really interesting stuff.

# 26th September 2006, 7:01 pm

PHP, XML, and Character Encodings. This caught me out earlier today.

# 26th September 2006, 5:15 pm / php, xml

Practical PHP Programming. Free online PHP book, by the author of PHP in a Nutshell.

# 26th September 2006, 4:16 pm / php

Flickr: Photos from Space Explorer. Space tourist with a Flickr photo stream.

# 26th September 2006, 3:25 pm / flickr

Windows XP Privilege Escalation Exploit. Trivial exploit using the at command.

# 25th September 2006, 7:42 pm

Jython changelog. Plenty of signs of life here.

# 25th September 2006, 2:51 pm / jython

Introducing MobMart. New UK mobile/auction startup, powered by Django.

# 25th September 2006, 2:40 pm

Ajax Buzzword Bingo (via) Nice demo of five different Ajax transport methods.

# 25th September 2006, 12:29 pm

Yahoo! UI Extensions Library Release .32. Jack Slocum is doing some really awesome things on top of YUI.

# 25th September 2006, 12:04 pm

The Web is a Pipe. I just saw Duncan talk about this at Euro RailsConf—really, really important concepts here.

# 15th September 2006, 5:06 pm

Google Code projects labeled django. Wow, there’s 39 of them already!

# 14th September 2006, 6:08 am

Design patterns of 1972 (via) Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages.

# 14th September 2006, 5:57 am / design-patterns

nginx: reverse proxy panacea. Another event loop based web server to keep an eye on.

# 13th September 2006, 11:39 pm

Bletchley hums again to the Turing Bombe. They’ve rebuilt Alan Turing’s computer. Awesome.

# 12th September 2006, 10:29 pm

Ruby and Strongtalk. Dynamic language function calls don’t have to be slow.

# 12th September 2006, 9:32 pm

Years

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