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Event Delegation versus Event Handling. Nice summary of this important DOM technique.
Change in funding from UK local governments to the Ordinance Survey. “I don’t know what to make of this, but it seems important.”
Django on IronPython (via) The text is in Japanese, but the screenshot is universal.
Neil Fraser: Googled. I’m obviously not the only person who thought MobWrite was total genius.
Menuism on Y! BBAuth. 70% of new users chose to use their Yahoo! account rather than create a new one.
Google buy JotSpot. JotSpot is one of my favourite startups; excellent news.
Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal. From an anonymous source, but fascinating if true.
Optimizing Page Load Time. Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips.
Optimizing Page Load Time. Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips.
Why Tim Berners-Lee is Wrong. Elliotte thinks XHTML is not the problem. I’m not convinced.
edparsons.com. Ed Parsons is CTO at Ordinance Survey, and has a really interesting weblog.
New Popular Edition Maps. UK maps from the 1940s. Go add your postcode!
Subversion branching quick start. Ned Batchelder’s branching tutorial.
830! How a carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. Great story—they weren’t even playing particularly well.
Tim Berners-Lee: Reinventing HTML. “It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally.” W3C to work on HTML again.
Python, Metaclasses and Overloaded Methods. Really great explanation and demonstration of metaclasses.
Zope 3 in 30 Minutes. I understand Zope 3 better having read this.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. Holy cow, when did this start? 50,000 articles and counting.
BT acquires Counterpane Internet Security (via) They just bought Bruce Schneier.
Brazil elections and postponed DST start. I’m doing stuff with timezones at the moment. Timezones are evil.
Dojo 0.4 release notes (via) GFX (a 2D drawing API) is awesome; dojo.html.metrics looks extremely useful, and onDomLoad is always nice.
Poking new holes with Flash Crossdomain Policy files. Very scary attack: if you can upload a file to a server, you can probably open it up to XSRF.
SQLite Keynote. SQLite 3.3.8 has full text indexing!
Pygments: Python syntax highlighter. Well designed API, really elegant software design.
Calendar of Strange English events in England, Scotland and Wales (via) Fantastically useful calendar.
The Virtual Life: IE At Arms Length. Developing for IE with a RAID disk full of VMs.
err.the_blog: My Rails Toolbox. Good overview of what’s hot in Rails land this season.
Obi-Wan the Cursor. Neat hardware hack for tracking a mouse cursor over four screens.
Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS. I’ve been playing with this stuff for a while—it’s awesome fun.
MetaCarter Labs: Map Rectifier. Tool for georeferencing images.