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O’Reilly Radar: The Value of Web Standards. “... we’re finally getting rewards for standards-compliance ...”

# 9th August 2006, 1:42 pm

New Media Hack on YDN Python Center. Recommends pycurl—I have to admit I hadn’t looked at that.

# 8th August 2006, 11:29 pm

Gina Ford vs the Web. “I’ll sue you! I’ll sue you in England!”

# 8th August 2006, 10:21 pm

Mark Shuttleworth: Jono Bacon steps up. Jono is the new community manager for Ubuntu. Awesome.

# 8th August 2006, 9:35 pm

Unicode strings to ASCII ...nicely. Uses unicodedata.normalize to filter out accents.

# 8th August 2006, 9:13 pm

YDN Python Developer Center. Launched today: tips and tutorials on accessing Yahoo! Web services from Python.

# 8th August 2006, 8:57 pm / python, yahoo, ydn

ModelViewController.mp3 (warning: singing). It’s the Model View Controller song!

# 8th August 2006, 11:04 am

Darwin Calendar Server. Apple’s open source CalDAV server is written in Python.

# 8th August 2006, 8:25 am

Apple Server page. The markup/CSS is lovely—a Wilson Miner special.

# 7th August 2006, 8:06 pm

New edition of the Rhino book goes to the printers. The examples from the book are available online now.

# 7th August 2006, 11:54 am

Bayeux. Comet might just make Java relevant for web development again.

# 7th August 2006, 11:51 am / alex-russell, bayeux, comet, java

Introduction to Subversion Screencast. If you aren’t using source control yet, here’s your chance to catch up.

# 5th August 2006, 4:59 pm / screencast, subversion

Changelog for Opera 9.01 for Macintosh. Fixes a bunch of little things that had been irritating me.

# 5th August 2006, 3:38 pm

Drew joins Yahoo! We’re running out of UK standards-focused developers to hire...

# 5th August 2006, 1:58 pm

[brothercake] Dynamic 3D with CSS and the DOM. 3D dungeon layouts built using the CSS polygon border trick.

# 5th August 2006, 12:16 pm

[ANN] Markup. New Python templating system designed to replace ClearSilver in Trac. Very Good News.

# 3rd August 2006, 11:46 pm

Extending Django’s database API to include full-text search (via) Outstanding tutorial on writing custom managers and QuerySet subclasses.

# 3rd August 2006, 11:36 pm

jacobian.org. Jacob got his tumble log working. It even exposes his Google searches.

# 3rd August 2006, 10:53 pm

Module Pycaml (via) Integration between Python native libraries and OCaml.

# 3rd August 2006, 7:46 pm / ocaml

What I’ve Really Been Working on at Google (via) Some technical background on Google Code hosting.

# 3rd August 2006, 7:27 pm

Browser JavaScript in Opera. Opera monkeypatches some sites, and auto-updates the patches once a week.

# 3rd August 2006, 5:37 pm / javascript, opera

Why is XSS so common? Because dev tools don’t escape things by default.

# 2nd August 2006, 8:57 pm / security, xss

Blowing up paint. More on that new Bravia ad, including a video.

# 1st August 2006, 10:13 pm

Proposed RFC for application/json (via) Douglas Crockford is putting JSON through the IETF.

# 1st August 2006, 9:29 pm / douglas-crockford, ietf, json, rfc

Infovore: ChinaDialogue.net. An entirely bilingual site, powered by Ruby on Rails.

# 1st August 2006, 9:22 pm

mySQL DBA (via) Dathan’s MySQL performance tuning blog. He tunes Flickr.

# 31st July 2006, 9:55 pm / flickr, mysql

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