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Neil Fraser: Software: MobWrite. Very impressive web-based collaborative text editor.
The Great British Cheese Festival. Now on Upcoming—a weekend of cheese!
Advogato is going offline. A real shame—this has long been a favourite lurking ground.
Paul’s writeup of d.construct 2006. Includes a link to our slides.
Jim Hugunin: IronPython 1.0 released today! The Python ecosystem gets stronger by the day.
UTF-8 Sampler. Good source for cheap UTF-8 testing via copy and paste.
The Screening Room #8: IronPython. Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.
The Screening Room #8: IronPython. Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.
simonwillison tag on a map. Kind of creepy, but also very cool.
Yahoo! Hack Day is coming. 24 hour outdoor hacking / camping party at Yahoo! US. Wish I could go.
ZoneTag Upcoming.org integration. Awesome S60 phone upload application gets even better.
New Manipulators proposal. Raising forms as exceptions is weird, but actually really clever.
sudo sandwich. xkcd cracks me up.
memcache_engine. A memcached storage engine for MySQL.
FlickrBlog: Geotagging—one day later. Over a million photos geotagged in 24 hours.
Using CrackLib to require stronger passwords (with Django). Uses a custom validator.
Flickr launches geocoding. Really great job—congrats Dan Catt and the rest of the team.
Next-Gen DVD Support Yanked from 32-Bit Vista. Stuff like this should greatly accelerate the coming DRM backlash.
The “add a class name” JavaScript widget philosophy. Dustin makes a good argument against it.
RSS CAPTCHA Prototype. Accessible captchas based on RSS feeds from friends’ sites.
Blow to inventors as Segway banned (via) Segways banned in the UK! That sucks.
Urwid. Text console application library for Python.
Hadoop. Open-source Google File System / map-reduce equivalent. Apparently scales amazingly well.
Web Inspector Gains New Eyes for Metrics, Properties. Debugging in Safari gets better again. Really neat Metrics view.
TradeMe: Big Fish In A Small Pond. Localization matters.
GopherNow—Late night food and more. Inspired by Lawrence.com?
del.icio.us/tag/openidconsumer. Help me build a list of sites that let you log in with OpenID.
Mapping the Roads, One Off-Ramp at a Time Page. How those GPS mapping trucks work.
Parsing XML can open network sockets (via) Yikes. Something to bare in mind.
[xsl] Replace newline characters(\n) with <br>. This is why I’m not a fan of XSLT for templating.