Items 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
Graphing requests with Tamper Data
I spent the weekend in Boston, speaking at GBC/ACM’s Deep Ajax seminar with Alex Russell and Adrian Holovaty. I’ll be posting some notes on this later, but I wanted to share a really neat Firefox extension that Alex showed me: Tamper Data.
[... 318 words]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
Keep your JSON valid
I’m a big fan of JSON, and it’s great to see it turning up as an output option for so many Web APIs. Unfortunately, many of these APIs are getting the details slightly wrong and in doing so are producing invalid JSON.
[... 311 words]SimpleXML processing with PHP. Good tutorial, with honest discussion of SimpleXML’s limitations. # 11th October 2006, 11:48 am