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Link • 2010 Jan 06

Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs

Tips and explanations for common IE6 problems.

Photos • 2010 Jan 02

Backyard at Night

Playing with the tripod and 10 second shutter in my backyard.

Link • 2009 Dec 30

CSS String Truncation with Ellipsis

Matt Snider shows how to accomplish a nice UI that keeps its vertical height on long strings by truncating strings with an ellipsis using only CSS on the client side. Complete with Firefox example using XBL and XUL to account for its lack of support for ellipsis using text-overflow.

Photos • 2009 Dec 06

Christmas Tree Ball

Link • 2009 Nov 25

Woof - simply exchange files

Very simple local file sharing: `woof filename` serves the file over HTTP once (or configurable number of times), then terminates. It's a single Python script that can live in ~/bin.

Music Track • 2009 Nov 24

Mike Doughty - More Bacon Than The Pan Can Handle

Link • 2009 Nov 04

NodeBox | Library

Lots of interesting bits of Python in this library, including things like linguistic analysis and semantic networks.

Photos • 2009 Oct 30

Github Unicorn

Link • 2009 Oct 21

Ajaxian » Apple goes live with HTML5 video

Apple is using the HTML5 video tag for their videos on Safari, falling back to Quicktime where the video tag isn't yet supported.

Link • 2009 Oct 16

pympler - Project Hosting on Google Code

Pympler is a development tool to measure, monitor and analyze the memory behavior of Python objects in a running Python application. Pympler integrates three previously separate modules into a single, comprehensive profiling tool. The asizeof module provides basic size information for one or several Python objects, module muppy is used for on-line monitoring of a Python application and module tracker provides off-line analysis of the lifetime of selected Python objects. Python versions 2.4+.

Link • 2009 Oct 15

Elements of Statistical Learning

The 2nd version of this classic book on data mining, inference, and prediction. And for free.

Link • 2009 Oct 13

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

A book published under the O'Reilly Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS), with what looks like great tips on customizing your web site to look as much like a native app as possible, using CSS and Javascript.

Music Track • 2009 Sep 29

Dinosaur Jr. - I Want You to Know

Link • 2009 Sep 17

django-safeform

CSRF protection for Django implemented at the form level - no middleware required.

Link • 2009 Sep 16

Cache algorithms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Overview of various caching algorithms.

Link • 2009 Aug 31

A Guide to Branching in Mercurial / Steve Losh

So far the most clear and detailed explanation of Mercurial branching options.

Photos • 2009 Aug 28

Funny puns

Justin and I abusing puns on Twitter. Read bottom up.

Link • 2009 Aug 26

Celestia: Home

The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.

Link • 2009 Jul 21

 NASA NEBULA | Services | Services - Overview

Nebula, NASA's cloud computing platform, uses Django. Following the list of open source projects being used here leads to some great and interesting results.

Link • 2009 Jul 17

Alice, the app - VERY MUCH IN CONSTRUCTION

Alice provides a RESTful interface to the RabbitMQ queue server including administration functions. It's written using Mochiweb, an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.

Music Track • 2009 Jul 07

Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked

Link • 2009 Jul 01

EveryBlock source code released / The EveryBlock Blog

Source code for Everyblock has been released. This is the Knight Foundation grant given to Adrian Holovaty, et al. and built on Django and Python. I'll be spending time reading the source.

Link • 2009 Jun 20

MPOAuthConnection

MPOAuthConnection is a drop in cocoa component for Mac and iPhone apps to talk to OAuth web services

Link • 2009 May 20

The Git Parable

A fictional tale of a programmer's quest to make a version control system, except what it describes in step by step detail is how Git works. Nicely done and informative.

Link • 2009 May 19

The Little Manual of API Design

Insights into API design from Trolltech, makers of the QT libraries. Adding this to my to-read list. (PDF)

Link • 2009 May 13

django-tinymce - Google Code

A django forms widget with support for languages, spell checking, and file browsing. Nice!

Link • 2009 May 08

Yolk

Yolk is a command-line tool querying PyPI and Python packages installed on your system.

Link • 2009 May 07

korpios's bulbs at master - GitHub

A collection of interesting code, mostly Django related, used by The Onion.

Music Track • 2009 May 07

Amplive - Video Tapez (ft. Del the Funky Homosapien)

Link • 2009 May 06

pinvoke - Icons and pixel fonts

Fugue icon set.