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Event Delegation versus Event Handling. Nice summary of this important DOM technique.

# 1st November 2006, 11:47 am

Change in funding from UK local governments to the Ordinance Survey. “I don’t know what to make of this, but it seems important.”

# 1st November 2006, 11:46 am / ordinancesurvey

Django on IronPython (via) The text is in Japanese, but the screenshot is universal.

# 1st November 2006, 11:45 am

Neil Fraser: Googled. I’m obviously not the only person who thought MobWrite was total genius.

# 1st November 2006, 11:42 am / google, neil-fraser

Menuism on Y! BBAuth. 70% of new users chose to use their Yahoo! account rather than create a new one.

# 31st October 2006, 4:51 pm / bbauth, menuism, yahoo

Google buy JotSpot. JotSpot is one of my favourite startups; excellent news.

# 31st October 2006, 2:59 pm

Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal. From an anonymous source, but fascinating if true.

# 31st October 2006, 11:20 am

Optimizing Page Load Time. Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips.

# 31st October 2006, 10:05 am

Optimizing Page Load Time. Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips.

# 31st October 2006, 10:05 am

Why Tim Berners-Lee is Wrong. Elliotte thinks XHTML is not the problem. I’m not convinced.

# 30th October 2006, 5:54 pm / elliotte-rusty-harold, tim-berners-lee, xhtml

edparsons.com. Ed Parsons is CTO at Ordinance Survey, and has a really interesting weblog.

# 29th October 2006, 4:32 pm

New Popular Edition Maps. UK maps from the 1940s. Go add your postcode!

# 29th October 2006, 4:29 pm

830! How a carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. Great story—they weren’t even playing particularly well.

# 29th October 2006, 3:15 pm

Tim Berners-Lee: Reinventing HTML. “It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally.” W3C to work on HTML again.

# 28th October 2006, 12:27 am / html, html5, tim-berners-lee, w3c, web-standards

Python, Metaclasses and Overloaded Methods. Really great explanation and demonstration of metaclasses.

# 26th October 2006, 4:43 pm

Zope 3 in 30 Minutes. I understand Zope 3 better having read this.

# 26th October 2006, 2:54 pm

Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. Holy cow, when did this start? 50,000 articles and counting.

# 25th October 2006, 1:24 pm / wikipedia

Brazil elections and postponed DST start. I’m doing stuff with timezones at the moment. Timezones are evil.

# 24th October 2006, 4:30 pm

Dojo 0.4 release notes (via) GFX (a 2D drawing API) is awesome; dojo.html.metrics looks extremely useful, and onDomLoad is always nice.

# 23rd October 2006, 12:39 am / 2d, dojo, drawing, javascript

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.

# 23rd October 2006, 12:11 am

SQLite Keynote. SQLite 3.3.8 has full text indexing!

# 21st October 2006, 11:44 pm / full-text-search, sqlite, d-richard-hipp

Pygments: Python syntax highlighter. Well designed API, really elegant software design.

# 21st October 2006, 11:21 pm

The Virtual Life: IE At Arms Length. Developing for IE with a RAID disk full of VMs.

# 20th October 2006, 3:15 pm

err.the_blog: My Rails Toolbox. Good overview of what’s hot in Rails land this season.

# 17th October 2006, 2:22 pm / rails

Obi-Wan the Cursor. Neat hardware hack for tracking a mouse cursor over four screens.

# 12th October 2006, 11:17 pm

Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS. I’ve been playing with this stuff for a while—it’s awesome fun.

# 12th October 2006, 1:31 pm

MetaCarter Labs: Map Rectifier. Tool for georeferencing images.

# 11th October 2006, 3:55 pm

Years

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