Items in Jun, 2006
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Cory Doctorow switching to Ubuntu. Another high profile defector. # 30th June 2006, 12:43 pm
CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down. Ouch. # 30th June 2006, 8:43 am
Python Web Developer Appliance. A VMWare virtual machine with Python web developer frameworks pre-installed for you. # 29th June 2006, 6:58 pm
A Week in Chicago with Rails, Perl, and Django. I love Nat’s observations about Java programmers who discover dynamic languages. # 29th June 2006, 6:21 pm
Javaref.com. Sane Java API browsing. # 29th June 2006, 2:12 pm
Greenpeace goes open source in collaboration push. Django in the news. # 29th June 2006, 11:40 am
Wrapping Text With Regular Expressions. Neat regexp trick. # 29th June 2006, 11:12 am
Speeding up Prototype’s Selector. Really smart getElementsBySelector optimisations. # 28th June 2006, 7:16 pm
Exploring the Google Web Toolkit. Covers all the reasons I’m uninterested in GWT. # 28th June 2006, 4:14 pm
Safari gets a JavaScript debugger. Great news, especially considering the tricky nature of Safari bugs. Opera needs one too. # 28th June 2006, 11:48 am
Safari fragment identifier history demo. Brilliant hack, but iframe/scrollTop to detect the back button is a bit too hairy for me. # 27th June 2006, 11:12 pm
Media in Transition Conference 2006. German Web 2.0 conference with some interesting speakers. Sadly this clashes with dConstruct. # 27th June 2006, 7:21 pm
Office IU Blog: Let’s Talk About Customization. 98% of people never customised their Office toolbars. # 27th June 2006, 4:21 pm
StreetWars London. “A 3 week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournament.” # 27th June 2006, 2:57 pm
The Government Says. New from My Society: collected government press releases. # 27th June 2006, 2:47 pm
Essentials, 2006 edition. 2006 must be the year of Linux on the desktop! # 26th June 2006, 9:07 pm
How to use Django with FastCGI. The best FastCGI documentation I’ve seen for any platform. # 26th June 2006, 8:26 pm
Notes on JavaScript Libraries
@media 2006 was a blast. Great talks, great people and some of the highest production values I’ve ever seen at a conference (check out the bags!).
[... 682 words]Reuse-in-the-large is an unsolved problem: Why I left OpenACS for Rails. Fascinating insight in to the reason frameworks that do less do more. # 26th June 2006, 2:55 pm
punupgeek.com on Active Resource. Looks like 37 signals might be looking in to scaling across multiple servers using web services. # 26th June 2006, 11:12 am
Fjax: Just say no
To my utter amazement, a decent amount of buzz appears to be building around a new “technology” called Fjax—much of it centred around this interview on Webmonkey, but also benefiting from a mention on the O’Reilly Radar and of course the obligatory Digg story.
[... 879 words]Choosing your CSS techniques. For the record, I favour redundant markup over CSS hacks. # 23rd June 2006, 1:03 pm
JavaScript Gotchas. Another example of why ID indexing was a dumb idea. # 23rd June 2006, 10:12 am
Django on Windows HOWTO. Fantastically detailed instructions. # 22nd June 2006, 10:26 pm
Mac OS X Hacking Tools. Useful tools built in to the OS. # 22nd June 2006, 7:13 pm
Star Wars Transformers Deluxe Millennium Falcon. Nerdgasm. # 22nd June 2006, 11:33 am
Star Wars Transformers. Consensus on whether these are Awesome or A Bit Wrong has yet to be formed. # 22nd June 2006, 11:32 am
A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes. Case study plus source code. # 22nd June 2006, 10:55 am
Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle. 100 lines of Python illustrating some key concepts in AI. # 22nd June 2006, 10:46 am
Cerealizer (via) A safe pickle for Python. # 20th June 2006, 11:49 pm