13 Items for August 2007
The Scoop » Blog Archive » Django, iCal and vObject
Easy iCal generation using Django and vObject.
Brandon Aaron » Background Iframe (bgiframe)
A nice jQuery plugin that solves the problem of select forms in IE6 bleeding through overlayed elements.
TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)
Wow. It's networking and connectedness applied to similarities found in photos. Simply amazing. Description from site: Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.
YouTube - Divided Sky (Pt. 1) Guitar Hero 2
Phish's "Divided Sky" in Guitar Hero. It's about a 12 minute song. From the looks of it is it is a very challenging Guitar Hero piece. Fun.
At the Forge - First Steps with Django | Linux Journal
Reuven Lerner's At the Forge series in the Linux Journal magazine starts of a first of 3 articles on Django with "First Steps with Django"
jQuery for JavaScript programmers
An excellent overview of jQuery by Simon Willison. I've used jQuery only briefly and this highlighted a lot of the features I've wanted to know about.
Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph
Great stuff -- instead of mini social networking graphs on every site there is some real thought on how to share and merge graphs. I'm looking forward to that future.
It worked! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
No freakin' way. Django serving requests running on a Jacob's iPhone.
It's not a Bug, it's a Feature!
Brilliant.
XRAY :: for web developers
I've haven't used this yet but any insight into IE6's box model rendering is a good thing.
Django on the OpenMoko phone
My friend Brad got Django running on his OpenMoko phone. Sweet! (OpenMoko is a completely open phone with touch screen interface. See openmoko.org for more.)
jQuery: » jQuery 1.1.4: Faster, More Tests, Ready for 1.2
Looks like some solid improvements to jQuery. Of particular interest is the renaming of jQuery itself and the YUI integration example since we use YUI and I've been considering jQuery for some of the sites that don't need the YUI widgets. The speed improvements are also very impressive.
3 tips for web designers using Django
In working with a good friend and web designer recently I came up with a few tips for web designers when working with Django -- things that might not be immediately apparent when reading the docs.
Keep it simple, read the documentation
There are often times when you have a goal ...