13 Items for September 2007
Rainbow Tops Hugo Winners
Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End won the Hugo Award for best novel. That's cool since it's next in my Sci-fi reading queue.
O'Reilly Media -- Bookstore: Programming Collective Intelligence
We just got this book at work and I discovered all the code examples are written in Python! It looks like it's going to be a very interesting read.
Video Blogging using Django and Flash(tm) Video (FLV) » DRM - Daniel’s Random Mutterings
Nice article describing how to use Django to upload video files, process them with ffmpeg, and display them on your blog. There are some good ffmpeg tips on how to encode and take a sample image from the resulting flv.
Django | Weblog | Join us for a worldwide sprint
Cool, a Django sprint!
Advanced Django » SlideShare
Simon Willison shares a tutorial titled, "Advanced Django" given at PyCon UK 2007. Material from OSCON, with an extra section on newforms.
Beware of the Dog | JoeDog / Siege
Recommended by Jacob Kaplan-Moss as a preferred HTTP performance testing tool over Apache Bench (ab).
jQuery UI: Widgets, Components, and Interactions
jQuery widgets! Looks like a great start of a nice widget and UI library for jQuery.
Django Development Using git
A little background
Not very long ago I was fortunate to attend a talk given by Randall Schwartz on git, the distributed source control system developed by Linus Torvalds and the rest of the Linux kernel developers. After that talk and after watching the Google Video talk given by Linus ...
Times to End Charges on Web Site - New York Times
The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night. Hooray... no more pay wall!
t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m : ASCII-O-Matic
Upload an image and it will print the ASCII art for it. Pretty neat.
Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL
Great CSS3 rant. It highlights a few types of things web developers and designers want to see were it not for the glacially moving W3C.
The crypto used for wii savegame files is sect233r1
Apparently the Nintendo Wii uses elliptic curve cryptography for saving game states. Does that mean my Wii saved states are more secure than my credit card during online purchases?!
Typography, Beyond the Font
Nice PDF slides of Jeff Croft's talk on typography. Lots of great stuff for web typography and happily very little about fonts.