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svnrepo 0.1. A Pythonic API to svn, wrapped around the low-level svn bindings.

# 17th November 2006, 9:30 am

Get the most out of generic views in Django. Awesome tip re-inforcing the power of wrappers around generic views.

# 16th November 2006, 4:43 pm

Firebug 1.0 preview. With network profiling inspired by Tamper Data!

# 16th November 2006, 9:59 am

UK copyright law petition. New official petition system from MySociety.

# 14th November 2006, 11:38 am / law

Ryan Tomayko: Shackled But Free. Did you know James Gosling caused the creation of the GPL?

# 13th November 2006, 6:29 pm

JavaScript, We Hardly new Ya. When to use the new keyword, by Douglas Crockford.

# 13th November 2006, 5:35 pm

Spiritual Research into Addictions. This gets increasingly crazy as you scroll down the page.

# 13th November 2006, 11:54 am

Sun open sources Java SE, ME, and Glassfish under GPLv2 (via) Pretty detailed analysis, including why they chose GPLv2.

# 13th November 2006, 11:46 am

Avi Bryant: smalltalk.rb. Bootstrapping Ruby on a Smalltalk VM in 65 lines of code (using JRuby).

# 13th November 2006, 11:16 am

Java Is Free. GPL2 no less. Getting Jython up to speed is now even more important.

# 13th November 2006, 7:35 am / jython

Concerned is over. Now you can read the whole thing through from the start!

# 12th November 2006, 9:15 pm

A Second Life teaser. Matt’s made a 3D printer.

# 12th November 2006, 9:02 pm

Y! Cool Thing: Mapping The Globe. Yahoo! finally adds international maps, with great coverage.

# 10th November 2006, 10:55 pm / maps, yahoo

Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony. Top reason for the decision was the excellent documentation.

# 9th November 2006, 12:28 pm / php, symfony, yahoo

How the news breaks. Awesome digital duct tape.

# 9th November 2006, 11:40 am

Tamarin Project (via) Adobe open source their excellent ECMAScript VW (from Flash).

# 7th November 2006, 3:23 pm

Stackless Python Continues to Amaze. Tasklet pickle/resume works across different computer architectures.

# 6th November 2006, 3:17 pm

PHP: JSON Functions. Now bundled in PHP 5. A great way to move data from PHP to some other language.

# 3rd November 2006, 12:25 pm / json, php, php5

Python Standard Encodings. “I didn’t know you could do this”.encode(“rot13”).encode(“zlib”)

# 2nd November 2006, 3:59 pm

The Django Book. Two chapters online so far; more to follow.

# 1st November 2006, 2:05 pm

A9 Maps are no longer available. That’s a shame; they were reall cool (had photos of the streets).

# 1st November 2006, 1:43 pm

Real-Time 3D in Javascript. Really cunning trick based around CSS polygons.

# 1st November 2006, 12:21 pm

Rafe Colburn: The secret of YouTube. YouTube acts like a Wikipedia for important video snippets.

# 1st November 2006, 12:19 pm

Mark Pilgrim’s definition of User-generated content. “You make all the content, and we keep all the money”. Ouch!

# 1st November 2006, 12:17 pm / mark-pilgrim

Jon Udell’s The Screening Room: Dabble DB. Not quite as impactful as a “live” demo, but still really impressive.

# 1st November 2006, 12:16 pm / dabbledb, jon-udell

WSGI Wiki: url_vars specification. Another neat piece of the WSGI puzzle, has the potential to play nicely with Django.

# 1st November 2006, 12:15 pm / wsgi

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