Items in Sep, 2006
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Launching the Un-Launch-Able. Dan Theurer explains SSO as enabled by Y! BBAuth. # 29th September 2006, 7:28 pm
Yahoo! Browser-Based Authentication (via) This is a Really Big Deal. Yahoo! has over 200 million /active/ user accounts. # 29th September 2006, 7:21 pm
Utterly brilliant Vietnamese cut-out art. The more you look at them the cleverer they are. # 28th September 2006, 4:40 pm
Introducing WSGI: Python’s Secret Web Weapon. Every Python web developer should understand WSGI. # 28th September 2006, 2:24 pm
geopy—Geocoding Toolbox for Python. Geocoder classes for Google, Yahoo!, Virtual Earth and more. # 28th September 2006, 11:16 am
London Python Meetup, Wednesday the 4th of October. At The Stage Door in Waterloo. # 28th September 2006, 11:10 am
Good Agile, Bad Agile. Includes interesting insight in to Google development processes. # 27th September 2006, 3:10 pm
No More IE6 Background Flicker. Hedger’s suggested JS fix. Not sure if I like the object detection he uses though. # 27th September 2006, 10:47 am
Better Metrics for Security—Understanding the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Mozilla defends against yet more spurious bug count reports. # 27th September 2006, 9:54 am
Cross-document messaging in Opera. Another interesting Opera feature based on WHAT WG work. # 26th September 2006, 7:41 pm
for in Intrigue. Douglas Crockford explains the need for hasOwnProperty in JavaScript. # 26th September 2006, 7:39 pm
Adobe Open Source Libraries: Overview. Technology used for the Photoshop UI. Really interesting stuff. # 26th September 2006, 7:01 pm
PHP, XML, and Character Encodings. This caught me out earlier today. # 26th September 2006, 5:15 pm
Practical PHP Programming. Free online PHP book, by the author of PHP in a Nutshell. # 26th September 2006, 4:16 pm
Flickr: Photos from Space Explorer. Space tourist with a Flickr photo stream. # 26th September 2006, 3:25 pm
Windows XP Privilege Escalation Exploit. Trivial exploit using the at command. # 25th September 2006, 7:42 pm
Jython changelog. Plenty of signs of life here. # 25th September 2006, 2:51 pm
Introducing MobMart. New UK mobile/auction startup, powered by Django. # 25th September 2006, 2:40 pm
Ajax Buzzword Bingo (via) Nice demo of five different Ajax transport methods. # 25th September 2006, 12:29 pm
Yahoo! UI Extensions Library Release .32. Jack Slocum is doing some really awesome things on top of YUI. # 25th September 2006, 12:04 pm
(UNCLASSIFIED) RSS and Atom Considerations: Moving Toward Atom (via) The US intelligence community argues for Atom. # 22nd September 2006, 1:28 am
What I’m excited about, post-conference edition
Wow, I’ve had a really busy month. I’ve attended (and spoken at) BarCamp London, Media in Transition, d.Construct, RailsConf Europe, Euro Foo and EuroOSCON. All were excellent, and each one nicely complemented the others. I’m exhausted. I think my brain is full.
[... 377 words]The Web is a Pipe. I just saw Duncan talk about this at Euro RailsConf—really, really important concepts here. # 15th September 2006, 5:06 pm
Google Code projects labeled django. Wow, there’s 39 of them already! # 14th September 2006, 6:08 am
Design patterns of 1972 (via) Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages. # 14th September 2006, 5:57 am
nginx: reverse proxy panacea. Another event loop based web server to keep an eye on. # 13th September 2006, 11:39 pm
Bletchley hums again to the Turing Bombe. They’ve rebuilt Alan Turing’s computer. Awesome. # 12th September 2006, 10:29 pm
Ruby and Strongtalk. Dynamic language function calls don’t have to be slow. # 12th September 2006, 9:32 pm
Subversion 1.4 release notes. Includes diff optimizations and a new repository mirroring tool. # 12th September 2006, 1:36 pm
Godfather of Hackney. Mafia don arrested in London. # 11th September 2006, 10:37 pm