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Productivity in the Trenches, or, Djangoism Saves. Jeremy Voorhis is nearly finished writing a major Django application.

# 11th September 2005, 2:16 pm / django, productivity

Newent Onion Fayre 2005. This year’s Onion Fayre was something of a wash-out.

# 11th September 2005, 10:54 am

Ruby, Python, “Power”. AN excellent comparison of various language features.

# 18th August 2005, 5:57 pm

[Greasemonkey] Monkey Do. User script that automatically posts interesting things to del.icio.us.

# 18th August 2005, 5:39 pm / delicious, greasemonkey

A comparison of Django with Rails. Nails the differences pretty well.

# 16th August 2005, 6 pm

Dallas PyCon 2006 (via) It’s over a weekend, February 23rd to 26th.

# 12th August 2005, 6:21 pm

Mozilla Corp. in 12 simple items. Daniel Glazman clears up the confusion.

# 4th August 2005, 6:22 pm / mozilla

MagicLine. Greasemonkey + microformats killer app. You just HAVE to check this out.

# 4th August 2005, 4:32 pm / greasemonkey, microformats

decaffeinated: Multiplicity. Outstanding multiple background demo—Safari 1.3+ only.

# 4th August 2005, 3:06 pm

Beautiful Code, Spring 2003: Syllabus (via) Ka-Ping Yee’s Python course. Learn from the best.

# 3rd August 2005, 4:09 pm

Multiple CSS backgrounds in Safari. The first comment includes a link to a demo.

# 3rd August 2005, 3:18 pm

Adrian is leaving the Journal-World. This opens an excellent Python job opportunity in Kansas.

# 3rd August 2005, 2:50 pm / adrian-holovaty

Jeff Barr on Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey for "Enterprise Application Integration".

Despite the odd name, Greasemonkey embodies a very cool and somewhat unique concept, something that I am starting to think of as low-budget, client-side application integration. In the late 90’s, “EAI” or Enterprise Application Integration, was all the rage. Companies that had the need to make disparate applications work together would spend tens of thousands of dollars on complex, fragile software to make it happen. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn’t. When it didn’t, they would call in armies of even more expensive consultants.

Now, I’ll be the first to say that Greasemonkey in its present form isn’t quite ready to replace expensive, commercial EAI software. However, I do believe that it belongs in the enterprise developer’s tookit of possible solutions, and I also believe that Greasemonkey will gain features, power, and respect over the coming months and that now is the time to learn more about it.

# 2nd August 2005, 11:55 am / greasemonkey, jeff-barr

objc_msgSend. Crazy hardcore optimization story.

# 2nd August 2005, 11:09 am

Kwalify (via) YAML gains a typically light-weight and elegant schema language.

# 2nd August 2005, 10:50 am

Another practical use for JavaScript closures. Create private methods by hiding them in a closure.

# 31st July 2005, 1:08 pm / closures

Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla. Surprisingly comprehensive guide to browser differences.

# 31st July 2005, 1:06 pm / mozilla

Software Carpentry. Greg Wilson’s course on software development skills.

# 31st July 2005, 1:04 pm / greg-wilson

Manhole cover on Wikipedia (via) Way more interesting than it should be.

# 22nd July 2005, 11:52 am / wikipedia

[Greasemonkey] A whole other kind of monkey. Help Aaron test the new, hopefully secure, Greasemonkey.

# 20th July 2005, 7:56 pm / greasemonkey

Google Moon—Lunar Landing Sites (via) Be sure to zoom all the way in for a Wallace and Gromit like revelation.

# 20th July 2005, 9:34 am

Django: The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. I helped develop this. Start with the overview. I’ll write more later.

# 16th July 2005, 4:53 pm

BBC—OpenSource (via) “For the BBC, open source software development is an extension of our Public Service remit.”

# 12th July 2005, 3:34 pm

London Will Fucking Twat You In A Minute, Son. This post, and the associated community, is the best thing I’ve seen all week.

# 11th July 2005, 3:39 pm

Quotes of the day. A great collection of quotes from Londoners.

# 11th July 2005, 3:26 pm

Years

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