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Liquid—a new Rails template system (via) Heavily inspired by Django. I’m flattered!

# 6th November 2005, 10:31 pm

Yahoo! Maps—Flash API—The killer app for online maps. Rev Dan Catt is the guy who got me excited about the Flash API in the first place.

# 6th November 2005, 7:46 pm

HOWTO Use Your Mac From Anywhere (via) A screencast tutorial by Mark Pilgrim.

# 5th November 2005, 12:08 pm / mark-pilgrim

Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Feeds and well-formed XML (via) Wow. IE7 will require RSS feeds to be well-formed XML.

# 5th November 2005, 10:35 am / xml

TurboDbAdmin. Ajax phpMyAdmin clone built on Dojo. Worth trying the live demo.

# 4th November 2005, 3:27 pm / ajax, dojo, javascript, mysql, phpmyadmin

Localization and Internationalization in Django. Another major community-driven Django feature.

# 4th November 2005, 2:14 pm

Web bugs for job scheduling: hack or solution? HarryF reviews ingenious PHP tricks for simulating cron.

# 4th November 2005, 1:49 pm

XML.com: REST on Rails. Matt Biddulph’s Rails mixin provides an instant REST interface to an ActiveRecord model.

# 4th November 2005, 1:47 pm / matt-biddulph, rails, rest

New features for extension developers in Firefox 1.5. We’re going to see some amazing innovation in extensions in the next few months.

# 4th November 2005, 11:29 am / firefox

Toolkits for user innovation (via) Jon Udell’s last two paragraphs resonate strongly with me:

Von Hippel advances the notion of user innovation toolkits. The Apache Web server, with its modular architecture, is an example of such a toolkit. In the hands of skilled programmers, Apache can be, and often is, tailored to specific needs. When such customizations are shared, other users benefit. But so do Apache's developers, who, by observing what's done with the toolkit, can more intelligently evolve the core product.

Web-based software delivered as a service is, at its best, another kind of innovation toolkit. Users bring the data; developers wrangle the code; more useful innovation happens faster than it otherwise could.

# 3rd November 2005, 1:30 pm / jon-udell

geobloggers, Yahoo! Maps edition (via) Dan Catt’s geobloggers, now with a Y! Maps Flash interface.

# 3rd November 2005, 9:54 am

Local Event Browser Demo. Edward Ho on the Local Events Browser, with a neat new use for term extraction.

# 3rd November 2005, 9:47 am

Super-mashup with Yahoo! APIs: event browser. Chad describes the local browser mashup.

# 3rd November 2005, 9:45 am

Local Events Browser. The Yahoo APIs mega mashup.

# 3rd November 2005, 9:45 am

Oracle 10g XE and PHP. HarryF has a handy tutorial on getting started with the new free Oracle version.

# 1st November 2005, 10:46 pm / php

Ross doesn’t trust Microsoft’s approach to Web. Scoble nails the reasons smart web developers avoid the MS stack.

# 1st November 2005, 12:47 pm

Yahoo! Autos Custom. I guess you could call this the Flickr of custom cars.

# 1st November 2005, 12:37 pm

World’s 10 Tallest Buildings—SkyscraperPage.com (via) This site is the Wikipedia of skyscraper pixel art.

# 1st November 2005, 8:20 am

About the Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update. Includes an updated Safari that passes the Acid 2 test.

# 1st November 2005, 12:18 am

The BBC’s programme catalogue (on Rails). Matt Biddulph’s current project is insanely cool.

# 31st October 2005, 7:39 pm / bbc, matt-biddulph, rails

Don’t get ahead of the curve. UK students are way behind the curve.

# 31st October 2005, 6:31 pm

Matt Croydon is moving to Kansas. Another professional Django developer.

# 31st October 2005, 4:02 pm

List of British English words not used in American English (via) Wikipedia’s essential guide to confusing Americans.

# 30th October 2005, 12:17 pm / wikipedia

On the BBC Annotatable Audio project... Tom’s last BBC project. He’s mine now!

# 28th October 2005, 10:10 pm

A9.com Maps. Impressive integration of street photos with pannable maps.

# 28th October 2005, 4:07 pm

The Zen of Microformats. The process is more interesting than the formats themselves.

# 28th October 2005, 10:30 am

London Web Frameworks Night. Talks on Django, Rails, Catalyst. I’m talking about Django.

# 28th October 2005, 10:22 am

World Usability Day. Coming up November 3rd. Lots of events around the world.

# 28th October 2005, 10:18 am / usability

Flickr printing now available (US only). You can also order your photos as stamps!

# 27th October 2005, 4:33 pm / flickr

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