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SimpleXML processing with PHP. Good tutorial, with honest discussion of SimpleXML’s limitations.
Framework Shootout Part 2, Django. Video of my 20 minute wiki demo at EuroPython back in July.
Clean your flat in sixty seconds... Time-lapse video as personal productivity tool.
xkcd: Nihilism. Zomg squirrels!
Screening People with Clearances. Classic Schneier analysis.
Multimap API v1.1 (via) Multimap have released their JavaScript map API. It’s really nice.
Romeo. An open-source Salling Clicker equivalent.
MetaCarta Labs. Geocoding and related tools.
Gutenkarte. Browse locations from Project Gutenberg books on a map.
Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps. Making neat globe diagrams with Python.
WordPress Clone in 27 Seconds (Part 1 of 40). A pleasantly informal Django blog tutorial.
3 Easy Steps to Avoid JavaScript Memory Leaks. YUI handles two of them for you; avoid DOM expandos as well and you should be set.
Peter Callesen’s papercut art. I incorrectly attributed these to an anonymous Vietnamese artist.
Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer. It demotivates you when working with less expressive languages.
Markup Maker. Handy tool from Ian Lloyd.
Equal Height Columns using CSS. Some seriously brilliant CSS trickery from Edward Eliot.
Launching the Un-Launch-Able. Dan Theurer explains SSO as enabled by Y! BBAuth.
Yahoo! Browser-Based Authentication (via) This is a Really Big Deal. Yahoo! has over 200 million /active/ user accounts.
Utterly brilliant Vietnamese cut-out art. The more you look at them the cleverer they are.
Introducing WSGI: Python’s Secret Web Weapon. Every Python web developer should understand WSGI.
geopy—Geocoding Toolbox for Python. Geocoder classes for Google, Yahoo!, Virtual Earth and more.
London Python Meetup, Wednesday the 4th of October. At The Stage Door in Waterloo.
Good Agile, Bad Agile. Includes interesting insight in to Google development processes.
No More IE6 Background Flicker. Hedger’s suggested JS fix. Not sure if I like the object detection he uses though.
Better Metrics for Security—Understanding the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Mozilla defends against yet more spurious bug count reports.
Cross-document messaging in Opera. Another interesting Opera feature based on WHAT WG work.
for in Intrigue. Douglas Crockford explains the need for hasOwnProperty in JavaScript.
Adobe Open Source Libraries: Overview. Technology used for the Photoshop UI. Really interesting stuff.
PHP, XML, and Character Encodings. This caught me out earlier today.
Practical PHP Programming. Free online PHP book, by the author of PHP in a Nutshell.