Jacob Kaplan-Moss: July 2009

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MySpace cyber-bullying conviction tentatively dismissed - Los Angeles Times

The cyber-bullying aspect of this case is utterly un-interesting to me. However, the ruling contains this tidbit: Judge Wu finds that violating a site's terms of service cannot be considered a crime. Big news for anyone doing data scraping!

(law, scraping, terms-of-service, web)

Python Projects in Users’ Home Directories with wsgi | Code Spatter

Nice technique for lightweight WSGI apps without needing to touch your Apache conf after the initial setup. I'd like to do something like this for my personal site so that it's easier to deploy quick & dirty apps.

(apache, django, linux, python, webdev, wsgi)

Train vs. Tornado. Guess who wins! | MetaFilter

This is why I love MetaFilter. The thread starts with train vs. tornado — full of awesome all by itself — but the thread soon evolves to include a detailed postmortem, train vs. train, train vs. snow, and Richard Feynman (really).

(awesome, metafilter, snow, tornado, trains, weather)

Mini Displayport to Displayport Adapter Cable - Circuit Assembly eStore

(adaptor, macbookpro, monitor)

Why I (A/L)GPL

Well said.

(business, copyright, gpl, licensing, opensource, python, zedshaw)

YouTube - New York Nearest Subway Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS from acrossair

Holy crap.

(apple, apps, augmentedreality, iphone, nyc, technology, video)

Time Warp

Interesting idea: take your Time Machine backups and sync 'em to Amazon S3. I've been essentially doing the same thing by hand, but this looks much slicker. Worth a try, I think.

(amazon, backup, mac, macosx, s3, software, storage, timemachine)

WebserviceApi - moddims - mod_dims API and configuration documentation. - Project Hosting on Google Code

Apache module to dynamically resize images with ImageMagic. I wrote a similar tool once as a lighttpd 404 handler, which was a hack; this is the tool I wish I'd had then.

(apache, image, resize, webdev)

HEYU - Introduction

Open source X10 (RF/powerline) command line tool.

(automation, homeautomation, lighting, oscon, power, software, utility, x10)

A Survey of Concurrency Constructs

Ted Leung's OSCON talk. One of my favorites, he zoomed through a bunch of different ways languages implement concurrency. Chock full of links to implementations, theory, and details.

(concurrency, oscon, oscon2009, presentation, programming, slides)

mxcl's homebrew at masterbrew - GitHub

Looks like a perfect middle ground between the Scylla of MacPorts/Fink and the Charybdis of building everything by hand. Next OSX box I set up is going to use homebrew.

(mac, osx, software, sysadmin)

It's hard to like Android. - jerakeen.org

“[Android is] Linux vs Windows/MacOS, all over again. You gain Freedom by using an open platform, making life worse for yourself in a thousand tiny ways, any one of which can easily be dismissed, so they are. But it’s still worse.” Unfortunately, this perfectly mirrors my experiences with Android, too. I'm trying really hard to like my G1, but all it does is make me realize how much better my iPhone is.

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