Blogmarks in 2006
Filters: Type: blogmark × Year: 2006 × Sorted by date
Introducing Operator. New microformat detecting Firefox extension, developed at IBM and released by Mozilla Labs. Examples are from Yahoo! Local, Upcoming and Flickr. # 18th December 2006, 4:36 pm
__builtins__ usage. Avoid using __builtins__ if you want your code to be compatible with IronPython. # 18th December 2006, 3:22 pm
SSH ControlPath/ControlMaster. How to get OpenSSH v4 and above to re-use an existing SSH connection for multiple sessions, dramatically speeding up connection start times. # 18th December 2006, 11:53 am
Django on Dreamhost: incomplete headers. Fix this problem on Dreamhost by renaming django.fcgi to dispatch.fcgi (they special-case for Rails users; Django users can tag along). # 17th December 2006, 9:36 am
Ma.gnolia supports OpenID. Text book implementation: you can associate your OpenID with an existing account and log in using either OpenID or your regular username and passwerd. # 17th December 2006, 9:29 am
phpMyID. A simple, stand-alone OpenID server in a single PHP script with no dependencies. Makes managing your own identity trivial. # 17th December 2006, 9:06 am
Meta-classes Made Easy. Fuzzyman introduces a metaclass factory for applying a decorator to every method of a class. # 17th December 2006, 12:42 am
RoundedCornr. Generates code for rounded corner boxes (with optional graded fills—very Web 2.0). Slightly different way of nesting divs to the way I’ve used in the past. # 16th December 2006, 11:49 pm
YUI CSS Grid builder (via) The YUI CSS grid system can be hard to get your head around. This interactive tool makes it much easier to figure out. # 16th December 2006, 10:30 pm
SubWiki (via) A wiki that uses Subversion for its data repository, implemented as a Python CGI. # 16th December 2006, 7:19 pm
Google Code gets wikis and file downloads. Someone finally wrote a project wiki that stores its pages inside the Subversion repository. # 16th December 2006, 12:35 pm
An open letter to Mike Arrington. Former co-editor Mike Butcher’s take on the demise of TechCrunch UK. “Citizen Kane 2.0”. # 16th December 2006, 12:19 pm
Fast and Simple Usability Testing. Nat’s 24ways article on practical usability testing (and hedgehogs). # 16th December 2006, 12:20 am
Never store passwords in a database! The reddit.com developers just learnt this the hard way. It might be time to change some of your passwords. # 16th December 2006, 12:01 am
Why do so many reddit users hate java? The answers provide a good overview as to why Java has fallen out of favour with the alpha-hacker crowd. # 15th December 2006, 2:20 pm
[Python-3000] Refactoring tool available. Guido’s initial work on a tool for converting Python 2.x code to Python 3K. # 15th December 2006, 2:19 pm
’National interest’ halts arms corruption inquiry. “It has been necessary to balance the need to maintain the rule of law against the wider public interest.” # 15th December 2006, 2:09 pm
Abusing Amazon images (via) Amazon have an amazingly flexible API for generating and modifying product images. # 14th December 2006, 7:38 pm
Google’s own cornershop. Google groups has an undocumented API for generating rounded corners. # 14th December 2006, 7:34 pm
Real-World Passwords. Random passwords phished from MySpace are surprisingly decent. # 14th December 2006, 2:14 pm
Curse launches with Django platform. Handles 500k visits/hour! # 14th December 2006, 3:02 am
Battery Expansion. In which James Duncan Davidson’s MacBook Pro battery goes critical. # 13th December 2006, 11:56 am
Statement Functions. Smart workaround for the lack of multi-line lambdas in Python. # 12th December 2006, 7:08 pm
Making GWT Better. Explains the philosophy behind GWT. It’s all about the tools! # 12th December 2006, 5:53 pm
GWT 1.3 Release Candidate is 100% Open Source. At least you can see how the code generator works now. # 12th December 2006, 5:50 pm
Russian squirrel pack “kills dog” (via) “The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat”. # 12th December 2006, 1:59 pm
100% Python SCGI implementation. SCGI is like FastCGI but simpler. # 12th December 2006, 1:37 pm
How many taps in a URL? Designing URLs for entry on a mobile phone. # 12th December 2006, 12:28 pm
Fletcher Capstan Table: Dinner Party Transformer. Best. Table. Evah. # 12th December 2006, 8:59 am
A General Theory of Programming Language Relativity. Functional languages have clearer levels of indirection. # 12th December 2006, 8:56 am