17 Items for December 2007
Getting FireBug to work with FireFox 3 Beta 1 - Brendan Tompkins
I followed these instructions and got Firebug working with Firefox 3.0 Beta 1. Pretty simple, really, but I never knew .xpi files where really .zip files.
Django Week in Review, Dec 3 - Dec 9, 2007
This post is a test of a new Django Week in Review format. I'm testing an automated script to parse the Django timeline with some minor edits and additions.
Over the following week I'll monitor a few Django resources and include links to more relevant items. If you ...
TED | Talks | Will Wright: Toys that make worlds (video)
Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore. An interesting idea to allow the user to learn by discovery.
The B-List: Speaking and writing
James Bennett shares plans of his upcoming PyCon talk and also a new book from Apress titled, "Practical Django Projects."
Amazon.com: Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Web Services
Amazon SimpleDB - a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. Provides the core functionality of a database - real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data - without the operational complexity.
Django Week in Review, Dec 10 - Dec 16, 2007
The obvious big news this week is that the Django Book is selling and the full text was announced available for viewing at djangobook.com.
Mailing List Highlights
Performance of a Django website: An interesting discussion on how to profile a Django website with some background information on Apache processes ...
Empty Thoughts: This Week in Django 2 - 2007-12-16
Michael Trier comes around with the 2nd installed of This Week in Django. A great podcast!
Tom Badran's Weblog - Syntax Highlighting using Pygments
A code snippet showing how to use Pygments to output syntax highlighting markup on a text snippet.
Django snippets: caching parsed templates
A wrapper around django.template.loader.get_template that caches parsed template for a bit of an optimization. Nifty.
CSS improvements in Firefox 3 - MDC
Mozilla's Developer Connection has an summary of the CSS improvements in Firefox 3.
24 ways: Diagnostic Styling
Very slick idea to create styles to highlight bad HTML practices like missing alternate text attributes. I'd love to see a common set added to some of the CSS frameworks like Blueprint.css.
Django Book Gems: assert False
Now that it's been officially released I've started re-reading the Django book, The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right. I'm going to start a small series on nice little snippets on bits of great information from the book as I re-read it.
One I found ...
Christmas Rainbow
Shot from my car with my cell phone while on my way to pick up some milk at the grocery store.
WARNING: Google’s GMail security failure leaves my business sabotaged :: David Airey :: Graphic and Logo Designer
An interesting story of a XSS vulnerability that existed in Gmail (since fixed) that resulted in a theft of a domain name.
Breadcrumbs In Django With Templates – martin-geber.com
An interesting spin on generating breadcrumb navigation by using Django's template inheritance and the not widely known about "block.super" variable.
/eucaliptus/trunk/eucaliptus/docs/overview.txt - five - Trac
A good start to a project that parses your web server log files and stores hits in a database. Missing views and charting currently. I'm going to keep an eye on this and possibly play with it some.
Beer
Our brewing club had an "Old Ale Night." No beers younger than 1 year old. Lots of good high alcohol beers. Snapped a quick photo.
