Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers - Software Freedom Law Center
Bookmarked September 30th, 2007 at 10:40 p.m.
Important guidlines from the SFLC on how to properly relicense permissively-licensed (i.e. BSD/MIT) code. Good to see that something positive came out of the whole Atheros driver kerfuffle.
Where do the Kansas City Foodies like to shop for, what else, food? - Midwest - Chowhound
Bookmarked September 29th, 2007 at 6:07 p.m.
OLPC Peru/Arahuay - OLPCWiki
Bookmarked September 28th, 2007 at 4:13 p.m.
Anyone who doesn't think that the OLPC will change the world needs to read this. One choice quote: "Diego is in second grade. He had stopped coming to school. However, he did come to pick up his XO laptop [...] From then on, he came to school everyday."
English stop words
Bookmarked September 28th, 2007 at 3:49 p.m.
A pretty good set of English stop words.
RussellBeattie.com - Fuck
Bookmarked September 27th, 2007 at 7:37 a.m.
"Fuck is just a word. I use it liberally when I don't feel like filtering (and I feel that by not filtering, the post will be better for it). So get over it, you bunch of pansy ass, oversensitive, hypocritical whiners."
Bucardo - multi-master replication for Postgres
Bookmarked September 24th, 2007 at 2:50 p.m.
"Bucardo is an asynchronous Postgres replication system, allowing for both multi-master and multi-slave operations." Whoa.
One Laptop Per Child -- XO Giving
Bookmarked September 24th, 2007 at 10:20 a.m.
OLPC announces a "Give 1 Get 1" program. That's awesome: I've been hearing rumors of such a program for over a year; good to see it become official.
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby
Bookmarked September 23rd, 2007 at 11:42 a.m.
Read the comment thread for the 8th reason: good lord the Rails community is obnoxious. It's a shame: Rails is such beautiful tech, but it seems to attrack the worst of the rabid fanboy assholes out there.
Mark Finkle’s Weblog » Hello JS-CTYPES, Goodbye Binary Components
Bookmarked September 23rd, 2007 at 11:36 a.m.
This is a pretty big deal: I've been using ctypes in Python for quite some time, and I can attest to how much better it is than writting C/C++ wrappers. XPCOM in particular is a total PITA, so js-ctypes should mean a bunch of new, awesome Mozilla plugins.
nextthing.org » robots.txt Adventure
Bookmarked September 22nd, 2007 at 11:13 a.m.
pam_recent: an add-on to make iptables' recent match more useful
Bookmarked September 20th, 2007 at 11:03 a.m.
"If the client manages to login, his history is cleared and subsequent new connections are not blocked. Password guessers, however, would not manage to prove their legitimacy... they're all treated as scum unless they can prove to be Good People."
Call Me Fishmeal.: iPhone & iPod: contain or disengage?
Bookmarked September 20th, 2007 at 9:27 a.m.
Wil articulates what every long-time Mac-head is feeling these days. I'm very afraid for the future of Apple - more than I've been at any other point.
Ned Batchelder: September 2007: Django favicon
Bookmarked September 19th, 2007 at 7:41 p.m.
Seems more ink has been spilled on these 256 pixels then on any others I can recall. Ned, however, manages to turn an otherwise mostly-pointless argument into an interesting digression on making icons.
Mint | Refreshing Money Management
Bookmarked September 19th, 2007 at 5:12 p.m.
Mint launches publically. My 10-word review: "Hm, seems to want my bank username and password. *Plonk*."
Dolph Simons Jr. Honored with SNA's Lesher Award
Bookmarked September 19th, 2007 at 10:53 a.m.
The owner of our company gets some serious props.
Ebert & Roeper
Bookmarked September 18th, 2007 at 5:54 p.m.
This is amazing -- 20 years of Ebert's reviews. Simply outstanding.
Advice for presentations: It happens! ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
Bookmarked September 18th, 2007 at 10:23 a.m.
A motherload of fantastic advice. I've seen Joe speak, and he's wonderful; knowing the level of preparation makes his skill seem obtainable for us mere mortals.
py-bcrypt - strong password hashing for Python
Bookmarked September 18th, 2007 at 9:54 a.m.
We should support bcrypt in Django if this module is installed.
Times to End Charges on Web Site - New York Times
Bookmarked September 17th, 2007 at 9:50 p.m.
The Times finally gets a clue. Welcome to the real Internet, folks.
LJWorld.com / Free State brew tops ‘Draft’ list
Bookmarked September 17th, 2007 at 10:45 a.m.
Draft magazine says what I've been saying for years: Free State's beers are among the best in the country. Only 45 barrels, though, so drink up while you can!
Memory Dump » Blog Archive » Zope3 for Djangoers. Part 1: Installation
Bookmarked September 14th, 2007 at 10:21 a.m.
This looks great. All my Zope knowledge comes from the hairy Zope2 days, so I really need to brush up on the brave new world of Zope.
code.sixapart.com/svn/perlbal/trunk/doc
Bookmarked September 13th, 2007 at 10:34 p.m.
Yes, there are docs for perlbal; you just need to know where to look. Also see the example configs (up a level and over).
Sock Dreams ~ Toe Socks
Bookmarked September 13th, 2007 at 10:58 a.m.
The largest collection of toe socks I've ever seen.
Celebs of Reddit « Occasionally sane
Bookmarked September 12th, 2007 at 6:56 p.m.
Apparently I'm a "celebrity" (for some value of the term, at least) on reddit.
[aptitude] How to get a list of all installed packages? - LinuxQuestions.org
Bookmarked September 12th, 2007 at 6:43 p.m.
Useful trick: `aptitude search '~i'`
Amazon.com Startup Project / Startup Challenge
Bookmarked September 12th, 2007 at 9:39 a.m.
Looks like Amazon's trying out the YC model. Interesting, if a bit limited in scope.
BabelDjango - Babel - Trac
Bookmarked September 12th, 2007 at 8:53 a.m.
Interesting work to integrate Django and Babel. Even if you don't need translation, there's some useful date/time/decimal formatting template filters here.
LJWorld.com / Device explodes at high school
Bookmarked September 11th, 2007 at 3 p.m.
Slug-of-the-day award.
Weather Station History : Weather Underground : KKSLAWRE10
Bookmarked September 11th, 2007 at 10:24 a.m.
Looks like this is the closest available Clinton Lake weather.
ElementTree: Working with Namespaces and Qualified Names
Bookmarked September 11th, 2007 at 10:15 a.m.
Required reading for working with namespaces and ElementTree. It's not hard, but there are a lot of details to get right.
Daily lake status for Clinton Lake
Bookmarked September 11th, 2007 at 12:54 a.m.
Doesn't update until the ranger arrives around 8am, but this is the only real source of information about wind conditions at Clinton Lake.
Washington City Paper: Cover Story: Wanted: Gullible Lawyers
Bookmarked September 10th, 2007 at 5:34 p.m.
An amazing story about a complicated scam. Don't miss the payoff at the end -- it's not what you expect.
Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails vs Django - Commercial #7
Bookmarked September 10th, 2007 at 5:11 p.m.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Games » Bloxorz
Bookmarked September 10th, 2007 at 1:56 p.m.
Griddlers Net
Bookmarked September 9th, 2007 at 12:38 p.m.
Thousands upon thousands of Picross puzzles. Only playable through a shitty Java applet, unfortunatly, but still nice.
Tivo HD eSATA Port is enabled now - TiVo Community & Store
Bookmarked September 7th, 2007 at 8:31 p.m.
Sweet.
Advice on relicensing from the SFLC [LWN.net]
Bookmarked September 6th, 2007 at 12:43 p.m.
Really, really useful for those taking BSD/MIT/etc. code and turning into GPL. I need to send this to the people GPL'ing parts of Django; so far nobody's doing it right.
Penelope Releases - MozillaWiki
Bookmarked September 3rd, 2007 at 9:15 a.m.
The first beta of the bastard child of Eudora and Thunderbird is available. I'm gonna give it a shot, but someone how doubt that two shitty mail clients will have anything but a twice-shitty child.
From Rails to Django — Myles Braithwaite
Bookmarked September 2nd, 2007 at 10:27 p.m.
"Recently I switched all of my websites to Djanog from Rails and you can see the difference." Wow, an amazing difference in RAM consumption. Especially surprising given that Python/Django isn't exactly known for low memory usage.
