Items in Oct, 2005
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The BBC’s programme catalogue (on Rails). Matt Biddulph’s current project is insanely cool. # 31st October 2005, 7:39 pm
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
Djangolians from the Planet Rails. Halloween costume fun. # 30th October 2005, 6:30 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
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
Flickr printing now available (US only). You can also order your photos as stamps! # 27th October 2005, 4:33 pm
Leak Free Javascript Closures. This is some pretty brilliant JavaScript voodoo. # 27th October 2005, 1:52 pm
BBC job involving dynamic languages. “Software Engineer Team Leader” should be read as “build cool shit”. # 26th October 2005, 12:24 pm
RubyZilla—a demo movie. Creating a simple browser in 20 minutes with Ruby and Glade2. # 26th October 2005, 11:47 am
Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? As a non-Windows programmer, this was an interesting look at the other side of the fence. # 26th October 2005, 12:44 am
Simple JavaScript Database (via) Flash-based local storage + JS SQL engine = abundant possibilities. # 25th October 2005, 10:51 pm
Google at it again. Ian’s rant perfectly reflects my own feelings on the matter. Don’t break existing apps. # 25th October 2005, 8:53 pm
Google Base, the spirit of our times. Are Google about to kick-start a centralised imitation of the semantic web? # 25th October 2005, 5:51 pm
Hurricane Wilma survival blog. My friend Levi is weathering the storm. # 25th October 2005, 4 pm
Things I learned at EuroOSCON
Last week was the first ever O’Reilly European Open Source Convention, held in the magnificent NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam. It was the first big budget conference I’d been too (previously I’ve stuck to less expensive affairs such as SxSW Interactive and PyCon) but the money seems to have been well spent. The venue was fantastic and there was a great line-up of speakers, keynotes and panels.
[... 878 words]Something Rotten in AdSense. Click fraud is a nasty problem. # 24th October 2005, 6:07 pm
Scryer: Django page-view counter. Simple but informative Django recent stats package. # 19th October 2005, 12:48 am
Farewell BBC—and hello Yahoo! (plasticbag.org). We have a Tom Coates! # 17th October 2005, 7:25 am
Using prototype.js v1.3.1 (via) Prototype: the missing manual. # 14th October 2005, 2:16 pm
Django design philosophies. The guiding principles behind Django’s design. # 14th October 2005, 12:29 pm
Technical explanation of myspace worm. Fascinating description of the holes in their HTML stripping algorithms. # 14th October 2005, 12:16 pm
Samy, Their Hero (via) An interview with the author of the MySpace worm # 14th October 2005, 12:13 pm
Jot-Ning AdSense Shenanigans (via) Cute. # 14th October 2005, 12 pm
HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software (via) Mark Pilgrim’s Handbrake tutorial. # 13th October 2005, 9:01 am
Flash for client-side vector graphics! This is a holy-crap moment. You could emulate the canvas tag API for IE with this. # 13th October 2005, 8:45 am