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Rubyless Ruby. sh + curl + awk + tryruby.hobix.com

# 15th December 2005, 6:48 am

Rails 1.0. Congrats to David and the Rails community as a whole.

# 14th December 2005, 2:32 am / rails

Django Screencast. Tom Dyson has put together an excellent unofficial Django screencast.

# 14th December 2005, 2:28 am

Alexa Web Search Platform. The first search API to come with a visible commercial use price tag?

# 13th December 2005, 5:38 pm

Performance Tuning PostgreSQL (via) Anything Frank has to say about PostgreSQL is well worth listening to.

# 13th December 2005, 8:11 am / postgresql

Django performance tips. How Django scales at the Lawrence Journal World.

# 13th December 2005, 8:04 am

Django job in Kansas. This is a case study in how to write a great job advert.

# 7th December 2005, 9:53 pm

The Japanese game to end all Japanese games. Fighting girls who take pictures of each other’s panties.

# 7th December 2005, 9:48 pm

Playing with Django. “For content-heavy websites, Django is likely to require very little business logic, just a solid model and a well-designed set of views.”

# 6th December 2005, 6:37 pm

Microformats at the University of Bath. Phil Wilson is quietly making the world better.

# 30th November 2005, 12:05 pm

try ruby! (in your browser). An Ajax interactive Ruby prompt from Why the lucky stiff.

# 29th November 2005, 12:19 am

PHP Developers Meeting Minutes (via) Detailed insight in to PHP 6.

# 27th November 2005, 10:10 pm / php

Xooglers (via) Could become the folklore.org of Google.com.

# 25th November 2005, 11:25 pm

Bee dogs! (via) “the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes.”

# 25th November 2005, 1:31 pm

Web_2.0.jpg. That’s that one sorted then. I like the inclusion of “beta”.

# 24th November 2005, 11:17 am

Simple iterator-based parsing (via) Beautifully elegant Python parsing trick

# 23rd November 2005, 11:44 am

del.icio.us/help/navigation. So that’s what the input boxes in the nav are for.

# 22nd November 2005, 8:04 pm / delicious

Zero-Day Exploit Targets IE (via) Remote code execution. No patch yet; disable Active Scripting instead.

# 22nd November 2005, 6:24 am / exploits, internet-explorer, security, zeroday

eBay’s “fewer words” search. This is a neat discoverablity enhancement to search.

# 22nd November 2005, 5:52 am

Spy cameras to spot drivers’ every move (via) Say goodbye to civil liberties in the UK.

# 19th November 2005, 7:40 pm

Unicodification (via) How to handle unicode in Python web applications.

# 18th November 2005, 4:10 pm

Stop card sharp practice. Which? found that 21 per cent of people would give their account number to a caller claiming to be their bank or credit card company.

# 18th November 2005, 2:03 pm

Snakes and Rubies event. Rails and Django event in Chicago on December 3rd.

# 18th November 2005, 7:36 am / rails

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