Items in Apr, 2006
Filters: Year: 2006 × Month: Apr × Sorted by date
del.icio.us/tag/flickr. del.icio.us shows Flickr thumbnails—not sure when that was added. # 28th April 2006, 11 am
Sam Kass’s Quartz Composer Hacks (via) These are fantastic. # 27th April 2006, 11:40 am
Quartz Composer iSight Prank. See yourself on a web page. # 27th April 2006, 11:33 am
The Spread Toolkit. The memcached of messaging services. # 27th April 2006, 11:31 am
London JavaScript Night. 25th of May. I’m talking about JavaScript libraries. # 27th April 2006, 12:14 am
Gruff Graphs for Ruby. A lot prettier than the pink screenshot would have you believe. # 26th April 2006, 5:44 pm
PlotKit—Javascript Chart Plotting. Uses SVG or canvas, with canvas emulation for IE. # 26th April 2006, 5:40 pm
BBC Programme Catalogue. It finally launched! Congrats, Matt. # 26th April 2006, 4:36 pm
Webstemmer. HTML layout analyzer that figures out the structure of a site. Very, very clever. # 24th April 2006, 8:05 pm
An S3 AJAX Wiki. Les continues to innovate against S3. # 22nd April 2006, 7:09 pm
Last Day [paulhammond.org]. Paul’s leaving the beeb. # 21st April 2006, 8:49 am
Yahoo! Maps, Your Way. Includes significant (and exciting) enhancements to the Ajax API. # 20th April 2006, 5:26 am
Vitamin. Lovely new web design magazine site from Ryan Carson and friends. # 18th April 2006, 2:18 pm
A List Apart: A More Accessible Map. Nice example of semantic markup, unobtrusive JavaScript and CSS. # 18th April 2006, 2:15 pm
London 2.0 RC 5, Wednesday May 3rd. Last one was a ton of fun, with some great demos. # 18th April 2006, 2:10 pm
selector—WSGI Delegation. Neat URL dispatching system, similar to Django’s. # 17th April 2006, 12:13 pm
XTech 2006: Ajax lightning demos. Show off your Ajax at XTech. # 17th April 2006, 1:53 am
Giant squid on display at the Natural History Museum. Awesome. It’s 9 metres long! # 15th April 2006, 12:01 am
InnoCentive Biology Challenges. Rent-a-coder style marketplace for scientists. # 12th April 2006, 1:26 pm
Yahoo! Geocoding API response for Gdansk, Poland. International geocoding, baby! # 12th April 2006, 12:48 pm
Some details about Ookles. Photo transforms defined by URLs, Flickr API compatibility and more. # 12th April 2006, 11:11 am
Yahoo! Maps Web Services updated. Now include satellite images and lo-res international maps. # 12th April 2006, 7:31 am
Yahoo Maps Satellite and Global coverage. Lo-res global satellite photos and basic road features. # 12th April 2006, 7:28 am
Content-Type is dead. Ouch. Even messier than non-well-formed RSS. # 12th April 2006, 12:56 am
Introducing SqlSoup. Lovely simple DB abstraction layer built on the excellent SQLAlchemy. # 11th April 2006, 7:13 pm
The XMLHttpRequest Object (via) A W3C Working Draft. # 9th April 2006, 11:58 pm
KittenAuth Test (via) Better captchas. # 7th April 2006, 8:37 pm
How I’m using Amazon S3 to serve media files. Adrian’s saving server overhead on ChicagoCrime by serving media from S3. # 7th April 2006, 6:51 pm
Exciting stuff in Python 2.5
Python 2.5 alpha 1 is out, and as usual the What’s New in Python 2.5 document provides a pleasant overview of the new features. There are some real treats in there. While I’m hoping that the syntax for conditional expressions will grow on me, I’m looking forward to Partial function application becoming a common Python idiom. Relative imports are going to make Django applications a lot easier to redistribute, and I can’t wait to see all the crazy hacks that result from the introduction of coroutines.
[... 291 words]Windows: The New Classic. John Gruber’s delightful take on Boot Camp. # 6th April 2006, 9:11 pm