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svnrepo 0.1. A Pythonic API to svn, wrapped around the low-level svn bindings.
Get the most out of generic views in Django. Awesome tip re-inforcing the power of wrappers around generic views.
Firebug 1.0 preview. With network profiling inspired by Tamper Data!
Graded Browser Support: Q4 Update. Opera 9 Mac is now A-Grade.
Ruthless enough for a startup? Quite depressing reading.
UK copyright law petition. New official petition system from MySociety.
Ryan Tomayko: Shackled But Free. Did you know James Gosling caused the creation of the GPL?
JavaScript, We Hardly new Ya. When to use the new keyword, by Douglas Crockford.
Spiritual Research into Addictions. This gets increasingly crazy as you scroll down the page.
Sun open sources Java SE, ME, and Glassfish under GPLv2 (via) Pretty detailed analysis, including why they chose GPLv2.
Avi Bryant: smalltalk.rb. Bootstrapping Ruby on a Smalltalk VM in 65 lines of code (using JRuby).
Java Is Free. GPL2 no less. Getting Jython up to speed is now even more important.
Concerned is over. Now you can read the whole thing through from the start!
A Second Life teaser. Matt’s made a 3D printer.
Dunstan Orchard working for Flickr. Awesome!
Y! Cool Thing: Mapping The Globe. Yahoo! finally adds international maps, with great coverage.
Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony. Top reason for the decision was the excellent documentation.
How the news breaks. Awesome digital duct tape.
Tamarin Project (via) Adobe open source their excellent ECMAScript VW (from Flash).
Stackless Python Continues to Amaze. Tasklet pickle/resume works across different computer architectures.
PHP: JSON Functions. Now bundled in PHP 5. A great way to move data from PHP to some other language.
Cleaner Callbacks With Partial Application. Smart tip from Dan Webb.
Python Standard Encodings. “I didn’t know you could do this”.encode(“rot13”).encode(“zlib”)
The Django Book. Two chapters online so far; more to follow.
A9 Maps are no longer available. That’s a shame; they were reall cool (had photos of the streets).
Real-Time 3D in Javascript. Really cunning trick based around CSS polygons.
Rafe Colburn: The secret of YouTube. YouTube acts like a Wikipedia for important video snippets.
Mark Pilgrim’s definition of User-generated content. “You make all the content, and we keep all the money”. Ouch!
Jon Udell’s The Screening Room: Dabble DB. Not quite as impactful as a “live” demo, but still really impressive.
WSGI Wiki: url_vars specification. Another neat piece of the WSGI puzzle, has the potential to play nicely with Django.