16 Items for January 2008
Better Web App Development
An interesting video (.mov file) covering a number of ways to produce web applications, including JSEE/JSP, Ruby on Rails, Plone, TurboGears, and Django. I really liked that the author showed the coding process for each one giving the viewer insight into each toolset. In the end it looks like Plone won out with Django coming in a close 2nd.
How Many HTML Elements Can You Name in 5 Minutes?
This is kinda fun in a stress you out and rack your brain kind of way. I got 57 out of 91 html elements. Remembering h1-h6 felt good.
Front Range Pythoneering: Django on Jython: Minding the Gap
Django running on Jython. Great news. Sounds like lots of good things for both Django and Jython.
John Resig - Untold JavaScript Secrets
Wow... definitely a book I'd like to read.
DojoX DTL (Django Template Language) | The Dojo Toolkit
An implementation of Django Templates in Javascript, brought to you buy the Dojo Toolkit.
Cornerz 0.1
A rounded corner javascript using jQuery that uses Canvas/VML for rendering.
Python Google Chart
A Python wrapper for Google's charting API that generates URLs and grabs images.
DOS ain't so bad after all ~ Authentic Boredom
Nice insight, but I love how web interfaces can add keyboard shortcuts. For example, I never miss my Mutt email client when Gmail has great support for keyboarding.
PyFacebook
PyFacebook is a thin wrapper for accessing Facebook's RESTful API through Python. I like the integration with manage.py to layout the facebook app skeleton.
Automatic conversion from simple, accessible data tables to YUI Charts ยป Yahoo! User Interface Blog
A very nice example of progressively enhancing an HTML table into a graphical chart, using YUI tools.
Deploying Compacted Javascript with Django
A Django management command plugin to concatenate and minify Javascript files to reduce HTTP requests and file size. I love how it ties into Django and the DEBUG state.
Apple Announces Free iPod Recycling Program at US Retail Stores
I didn't know about this program (or had forgotten). I may have to take advantage of it soon!
Django People
Simon Willison pushed out a Django website that shows Django users by location. See Django users near you.
