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Incompatible SQLite in OS X and Python. I’ve hit this problem; James has the solution.

# 28th November 2006, 5:40 pm / macos, python, sqlite

Including Dojo, The Really Easy Way. Drop in a single include to load code on demand from AOL’s CDN.

# 28th November 2006, 12:22 pm / aol, cdn, dojo, javascript

ElementTree Text Helper. Monkey patches a textlist() method in to ElementTree.

# 27th November 2006, 8:04 pm

Frank Wierzbick: I now work for Red Hat (via) Includes news of Jython progress: slots support is in, which hopefully is a solid step towards Python 2.3 compatibility.

# 27th November 2006, 8:03 pm / jython

python-dateutil. A bunch of useful datetime extensions, including recurrence rules and date parsing.

# 26th November 2006, 11:44 pm

Inside World of Warcraft Gold Farm, Future of Work. Half a million (!) people make a living farming gold in World of Warcraft.

# 26th November 2006, 10:11 pm

’Pump-and-Dump’ Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders. Many people I’ve talked to have noticed an up-surge in spam recently. This could be why.

# 26th November 2006, 7:20 pm

Hex Fiend Developers Overview. Best code documentation I’ve seen in ages.

# 25th November 2006, 9:38 am

Resizable Reloaded—A reusable component for resizing elements. Another useful YUI widget from Jack Slocum, with a clear and well designed API.

# 25th November 2006, 9:34 am

15-second delay. Train doors driven by GPS have a manual over-ride for covered stations.

# 25th November 2006, 8:59 am

Riding Rails: Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 1. Highlights include REST, resources and unicode support.

# 23rd November 2006, 8:21 am / rails

Rich-Media Delivery In Second Life—A HOWTO. Second Life supports SMIL, via QuickTime.

# 22nd November 2006, 11:30 am

The Spam Farms of the Social Web. Really interesting exposé by Niall Kennedy.

# 22nd November 2006, 10:41 am / niall-kennedy, spam

Zhongdian. Ping’s continuing adventures in China.

# 21st November 2006, 7:03 pm

bbum: How to harvest a turkey. Fascinating, if a little graphic.

# 21st November 2006, 11:41 am

Flickr Camera Finder. I hadn’t seen this; includes some really nice graphs.

# 21st November 2006, 11:25 am / flickr

TheyWorkForYou.co.nz. Rob McKinnon’s site for tracking New Zealand’s Parliament.

# 20th November 2006, 3:47 pm

The top 10 arguments against DRM. Includes some good business arguments I hadn’t heard before.

# 20th November 2006, 1:23 pm

Donut Robot of Love 2000 (via) IM ON UR ROBOT EATIN UR DONUTZ (scroll to comments)

# 20th November 2006, 1:15 pm

How To Subclass The JavaScript Array Object. Utterly brilliant—create a fresh copy of Array in an iframe and customise that.

# 19th November 2006, 7:11 pm

minimock. Python mock object library for use with doctest, in 25 lines of code.

# 18th November 2006, 11:23 am

Introducing the Technorati Link Count Widget. I’m trying this out; it’s pretty sweet. Nicely unobtrusive too.

# 18th November 2006, 10:53 am / javascript, technorati, unobtrusive

Django on OS X setup notes. MySQLdb currently depends on Python 2.3.3 or higher.

# 17th November 2006, 4:40 pm

New World Notes on the Second Life CopyBot controversy. Absolutely fascinating, especially the in-game protests.

# 17th November 2006, 9:42 am

Years

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