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Python Templates. It’s surprising how much work you can get done building on Python’s string interpolation.

# 15th May 2006, 2:25 pm

JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web. Brendan Eich at The Ajax Experience.

# 14th May 2006, 8:21 pm

“Lock The Vault? What Kind Of Maniac Would Steal Money From A Bank?”. Voting machine company rep rules out possibility of corrupt election officials.

# 14th May 2006, 7:44 am

Microsummaries in Firefox 2. Neat new feature: short summaries of pages extracted using XSLT.

# 13th May 2006, 10:18 am / firefox, xslt

__halt_compiler()—how nuts? There are good reasons for it to exist. I still think it’s nuts though.

# 12th May 2006, 12:43 am

Build Your Own Website the Right Way Using HTML and CSS. Ian Lloyd’s book. Sounds perfect for beginners.

# 11th May 2006, 11:40 pm

mnot: Vendor-pires (via) WS-* vendors and vampires.

# 11th May 2006, 3:45 pm / mark-nottingham

AutoComplete, Windowing, Menu and More: A Second Beta Release for the YUI Library. More design patterns, more widgets, new CSS stuff, lots of improvements overall.

# 10th May 2006, 9:33 am

Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS. This stuff is absolutely brilliant.

# 10th May 2006, 8 am

Base32. Express large numbers in a neater form; good for URL transmission.

# 9th May 2006, 1:58 pm

Rewind. Alex Russell quits Jot to work on Dojo full time.

# 9th May 2006, 7:40 am / alex-russell, dojo, jotspot

Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry. Unsurprisingly, hosting “review” sites are just after the referrals.

# 5th May 2006, 5:28 pm

A step-by-step SQLAlchemy tutorial (via) Looks like a superb piece of software.

# 5th May 2006, 2:53 pm

RailsConf Europe: September 14-15 in London. 500 spots, 400 quid early-bird special.

# 4th May 2006, 11:01 am

AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? James Edwards tests various DOM update notification techniques.

# 4th May 2006, 10:21 am

Master Foo’s Taxation Theory of Microformats. “Perhaps we can hide custom XML languages *inside* these standard XML languages”.

# 4th May 2006, 9:58 am

Screw YouTube (via) The backlash begins? “The people I used to know on YouTube got banned, saw their accounts set to zero or just left by themselves.”

# 4th May 2006, 12:14 am

Django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines. Jacob’s presentation at the Googleplex, on Google Video.

# 3rd May 2006, 5:32 pm

Django for non-programmers. Jeff Croft’s intro to Django.

# 3rd May 2006, 3:13 pm

Neutrality of the Net. Tim Berners-Lee on the most important issue facing the ’net today.

# 3rd May 2006, 12:13 am / net-neutrality, tim-berners-lee

EasyEclipse LAMP Edition. Eclipse pre-configured for LAMP development. Haven’t tried it myself but it looks good.

# 2nd May 2006, 2:45 pm

Django “magic-removal” branch merged. Finally! Django’s model layer is now a heck of a lot cleaner.

# 2nd May 2006, 12:46 pm

CustomEvent: onFontResize (via) Neat little hack using an iframe with width set in ems.

# 2nd May 2006, 10:26 am

Brad Neuberg introduces dojo.storage. Incredibly technically impressive, embodying months of accumulated expertise.

# 1st May 2006, 11:33 pm / brad-neuberg, dojo, dojostorage, javascript

Jeff Maurone blogs about the Times Reader (via) He’s one of the developers. Great to see them blogging; still don’t believe in the product though.

# 1st May 2006, 11:30 pm / blogging

Microsoft make a reader for the NY Times? Wuh? Interesting comment from John Dowdell attached.

# 1st May 2006, 11:29 pm

Two steps backward. Another dumb attempt at a proprietary “reader” for online newspapers.

# 1st May 2006, 11:28 pm

Shopping Search APIs on Yahoo! Tech. The new Yahoo! Tech site uses the public shopping APIs.

# 1st May 2006, 10:21 pm

Change Safari’s default search engine—revisited (via) Good Lord, you have to edit the Safari executable!

# 1st May 2006, 1:27 pm

Years

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