Blogmarks in Oct, 2006
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Menuism on Y! BBAuth. 70% of new users chose to use their Yahoo! account rather than create a new one. # 31st October 2006, 4:51 pm
Google buy JotSpot. JotSpot is one of my favourite startups; excellent news. # 31st October 2006, 2:59 pm
Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal. From an anonymous source, but fascinating if true. # 31st October 2006, 11:20 am
Optimizing Page Load Time. Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips. # 31st October 2006, 10:05 am
Optimizing Page Load Time. Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips. # 31st October 2006, 10:05 am
Why Tim Berners-Lee is Wrong. Elliotte thinks XHTML is not the problem. I’m not convinced. # 30th October 2006, 5:54 pm
edparsons.com. Ed Parsons is CTO at Ordinance Survey, and has a really interesting weblog. # 29th October 2006, 4:32 pm
New Popular Edition Maps. UK maps from the 1940s. Go add your postcode! # 29th October 2006, 4:29 pm
Subversion branching quick start. Ned Batchelder’s branching tutorial. # 29th October 2006, 3:27 pm
830! How a carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. Great story—they weren’t even playing particularly well. # 29th October 2006, 3:15 pm
Tim Berners-Lee: Reinventing HTML. “It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally.” W3C to work on HTML again. # 28th October 2006, 12:27 am
Python, Metaclasses and Overloaded Methods. Really great explanation and demonstration of metaclasses. # 26th October 2006, 4:43 pm
Zope 3 in 30 Minutes. I understand Zope 3 better having read this. # 26th October 2006, 2:54 pm
Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. Holy cow, when did this start? 50,000 articles and counting. # 25th October 2006, 1:24 pm
BT acquires Counterpane Internet Security (via) They just bought Bruce Schneier. # 25th October 2006, 10:57 am
Brazil elections and postponed DST start. I’m doing stuff with timezones at the moment. Timezones are evil. # 24th October 2006, 4:30 pm
Dojo 0.4 release notes (via) GFX (a 2D drawing API) is awesome; dojo.html.metrics looks extremely useful, and onDomLoad is always nice. # 23rd October 2006, 12:39 am
Poking new holes with Flash Crossdomain Policy files. Very scary attack: if you can upload a file to a server, you can probably open it up to XSRF. # 23rd October 2006, 12:11 am
SQLite Keynote. SQLite 3.3.8 has full text indexing! # 21st October 2006, 11:44 pm
Pygments: Python syntax highlighter. Well designed API, really elegant software design. # 21st October 2006, 11:21 pm
Calendar of Strange English events in England, Scotland and Wales (via) Fantastically useful calendar. # 21st October 2006, 8:45 pm
The Virtual Life: IE At Arms Length. Developing for IE with a RAID disk full of VMs. # 20th October 2006, 3:15 pm
err.the_blog: My Rails Toolbox. Good overview of what’s hot in Rails land this season. # 17th October 2006, 2:22 pm
Obi-Wan the Cursor. Neat hardware hack for tracking a mouse cursor over four screens. # 12th October 2006, 11:17 pm
Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS. I’ve been playing with this stuff for a while—it’s awesome fun. # 12th October 2006, 1:31 pm
MetaCarter Labs: Map Rectifier. Tool for georeferencing images. # 11th October 2006, 3:55 pm
SimpleXML processing with PHP. Good tutorial, with honest discussion of SimpleXML’s limitations. # 11th October 2006, 11:48 am
Framework Shootout Part 2, Django. Video of my 20 minute wiki demo at EuroPython back in July. # 10th October 2006, 11:53 am
Clean your flat in sixty seconds... Time-lapse video as personal productivity tool. # 6th October 2006, 11:23 am
xkcd: Nihilism. Zomg squirrels! # 6th October 2006, 9:15 am