7 Items for 3 October 2006
Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile
Funny take on agile development. Also some interesting bits of what working at Google is like.
O'Reilly Network -- Legal Opinions
Very cool talk by Eben Moglen given at OSCON 2006.
The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972
Interesting take on programming design patterns and how they highlight deficiencies of a language. Example on coding subroutines in assembly is a pattern that became part of the language concept in C.
Django signals (Mercurytide)
Since December 2005, the Django web framework has supported signals. This article introduces the concept of signalling, discusses Django signals, provides examples of listening for Django's built-in signals, and shows how to send custom signals.
ReUsable Web Components with Python and Future Python Web Development - Google Video
Python's Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) not only enables a multitude of Python web frameworks to share code when it comes to deployment, but also enables entirely new levels of re-use for Python web development. This talk discusses WSGI in general and Pylons specifically.
Building a more semantic web with microformats (Mercurytide)
A nice paper that explains microformats and their part in the symantic web.
famfamfam.com: Icons
Mark James has made available (for free!) over a thousand magnificent icons for use in web applications.