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Python Templates. It’s surprising how much work you can get done building on Python’s string interpolation.
JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web. Brendan Eich at The Ajax Experience.
“Lock The Vault? What Kind Of Maniac Would Steal Money From A Bank?”. Voting machine company rep rules out possibility of corrupt election officials.
Microsummaries in Firefox 2. Neat new feature: short summaries of pages extracted using XSLT.
__halt_compiler()—how nuts? There are good reasons for it to exist. I still think it’s nuts though.
Build Your Own Website the Right Way Using HTML and CSS. Ian Lloyd’s book. Sounds perfect for beginners.
mnot: Vendor-pires (via) WS-* vendors and vampires.
PHP: __halt_compiler(). This is nuts.
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.
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS. This stuff is absolutely brilliant.
Base32. Express large numbers in a neater form; good for URL transmission.
Rewind. Alex Russell quits Jot to work on Dojo full time.
Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry. Unsurprisingly, hosting “review” sites are just after the referrals.
A step-by-step SQLAlchemy tutorial (via) Looks like a superb piece of software.
RailsConf Europe: September 14-15 in London. 500 spots, 400 quid early-bird special.
AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? James Edwards tests various DOM update notification techniques.
Master Foo’s Taxation Theory of Microformats. “Perhaps we can hide custom XML languages *inside* these standard XML languages”.
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.”
Django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines. Jacob’s presentation at the Googleplex, on Google Video.
Django for non-programmers. Jeff Croft’s intro to Django.
Neutrality of the Net. Tim Berners-Lee on the most important issue facing the ’net today.
EasyEclipse LAMP Edition. Eclipse pre-configured for LAMP development. Haven’t tried it myself but it looks good.
Django “magic-removal” branch merged. Finally! Django’s model layer is now a heck of a lot cleaner.
CustomEvent: onFontResize (via) Neat little hack using an iframe with width set in ems.
Brad Neuberg introduces dojo.storage. Incredibly technically impressive, embodying months of accumulated expertise.
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.
Microsoft make a reader for the NY Times? Wuh? Interesting comment from John Dowdell attached.
Two steps backward. Another dumb attempt at a proprietary “reader” for online newspapers.
Shopping Search APIs on Yahoo! Tech. The new Yahoo! Tech site uses the public shopping APIs.
Change Safari’s default search engine—revisited (via) Good Lord, you have to edit the Safari executable!