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Ajax Link Tracker. Really neat stats tracking/overlay trick.

# 30th December 2005, 7:58 pm

Canvas in IE (via) Cunning hack using .htc and VML.

# 30th December 2005, 3:39 pm

The Dojo Manual (via) Dojo finally gets some really good extensive documentation.

# 24th December 2005, 6:21 pm / documentation, dojo, javascript

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speech at the Sierra Club (via) How environmentalism is a form of free market capitalism.

# 23rd December 2005, 11:46 pm

Productivity Arbitrage. Rails goes enterprise. Django gets a mention as well.

# 21st December 2005, 7:22 pm

CanvasGraph.js. Uses canvas to draw graphs in JavaScript. It can pull data from HTML tables!

# 21st December 2005, 5 pm

Google Zeitgeist: Celebrities. I’m impressed that this is the first I’ve heard of Britney having a baby.

# 21st December 2005, 12:48 am

Rails Weenie—find answers to your Ruby on Rails questions. Kind of like a specialized Yahoo! Answers for Ruby on Rails.

# 20th December 2005, 3:33 pm

reflection.js demo. iChat AV style reflections with the canvas element.

# 19th December 2005, 4:16 pm

gathering the troops (via) danah on Yahoo!’s progressing cultural shift.

# 18th December 2005, 11:14 pm

The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts. Bruce Eckel on Java, Ruby, Python, Rails and more.

# 18th December 2005, 9:25 pm

BBC News: The Open News Archive (via) 79 news clips for download under the Creative Archive license.

# 16th December 2005, 11:43 am

Using JSON with Yahoo! Web Services (via) No more cross-domain script access problems.

# 15th December 2005, 11:53 pm / json, web-services, yahoo, ydn

Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Icons: It’s still orange. MS are adapting the Mozilla RSS/Atom icon. Excellent.

# 15th December 2005, 7:39 am

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

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