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Subversion 1.4 release notes. Includes diff optimizations and a new repository mirroring tool.

# 12th September 2006, 1:36 pm / subversion

Godfather of Hackney. Mafia don arrested in London.

# 11th September 2006, 10:37 pm

Differential Synchronization. How that browser-based collaborative editor actually works.

# 11th September 2006, 6 pm

Omakase—contextual ads from Amazon. Presumably combines info about the page with info from your Amazon cookie.

# 11th September 2006, 3:57 pm

Neil Fraser: Software: MobWrite. Very impressive web-based collaborative text editor.

# 11th September 2006, 1:01 pm / neil-fraser

The Great British Cheese Festival. Now on Upcoming—a weekend of cheese!

# 11th September 2006, 12:20 pm / cheese

Advogato is going offline. A real shame—this has long been a favourite lurking ground.

# 11th September 2006, 12:12 pm

Jim Hugunin: IronPython 1.0 released today! The Python ecosystem gets stronger by the day.

# 6th September 2006, 12:50 pm

UTF-8 Sampler. Good source for cheap UTF-8 testing via copy and paste.

# 1st September 2006, 1 am

The Screening Room #8: IronPython. Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.

# 1st September 2006, 12:51 am / ironpython, jon-udell, python

The Screening Room #8: IronPython. Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.

# 1st September 2006, 12:51 am / ironpython, jon-udell, python

simonwillison tag on a map. Kind of creepy, but also very cool.

# 31st August 2006, 4:22 pm

Yahoo! Hack Day is coming. 24 hour outdoor hacking / camping party at Yahoo! US. Wish I could go.

# 30th August 2006, 3:54 pm

ZoneTag Upcoming.org integration. Awesome S60 phone upload application gets even better.

# 30th August 2006, 11:55 am

New Manipulators proposal. Raising forms as exceptions is weird, but actually really clever.

# 30th August 2006, 11:32 am

sudo sandwich. xkcd cracks me up.

# 30th August 2006, 6:50 am / funny, xkcd

memcache_engine. A memcached storage engine for MySQL.

# 30th August 2006, 6:07 am

FlickrBlog: Geotagging—one day later. Over a million photos geotagged in 24 hours.

# 30th August 2006, 5:59 am

Flickr launches geocoding. Really great job—congrats Dan Catt and the rest of the team.

# 28th August 2006, 8:46 pm / flickr

Next-Gen DVD Support Yanked from 32-Bit Vista. Stuff like this should greatly accelerate the coming DRM backlash.

# 25th August 2006, 4:48 pm

RSS CAPTCHA Prototype. Accessible captchas based on RSS feeds from friends’ sites.

# 24th August 2006, 7:01 pm / captchas

Blow to inventors as Segway banned (via) Segways banned in the UK! That sucks.

# 23rd August 2006, 8:30 pm

Urwid. Text console application library for Python.

# 23rd August 2006, 6:36 pm

Hadoop. Open-source Google File System / map-reduce equivalent. Apparently scales amazingly well.

# 23rd August 2006, 8:36 am / hadoop

Web Inspector Gains New Eyes for Metrics, Properties. Debugging in Safari gets better again. Really neat Metrics view.

# 22nd August 2006, 12:44 am

Years

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