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Link archive: Jan. 2008

TripIt | Organize your travel

Bookmarked January 31st, 2008 at 1:19 p.m.

"Just forward your travel confirmation emails to: plans@tripit.com" Looks super nifty.

Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Prevent Pegboard Pull-Out With Pegmate

Bookmarked January 31st, 2008 at 1:16 p.m.

Gotta get me some of these.

quiltid

Bookmarked January 31st, 2008 at 9:41 a.m.

A cute way of representing all those damn social networking sites you belong to. Powered by Django, I'm told.

Changes Beta

Bookmarked January 31st, 2008 at 8:21 a.m.

An interesting visual diff tool along the lines of FileMerge or kdiff3. I've been more than happy with FileMerge, but Changes is probably worth a look.

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: David Lee Roth Vocals

Bookmarked January 30th, 2008 at 1:27 p.m.

David Lee Roth's vocal track from Running with the Devil. Just the vocal track. Make sure you listen to the whole thing to get the full dose of awsome.

The FAIL Blog

Bookmarked January 29th, 2008 at 5:05 p.m.

Brilliant. Subscribed.

Police blotter | News articles | EveryBlock Chicago

Bookmarked January 29th, 2008 at 12:51 p.m.

I didn't know that Croft was in Chicago recently.

Coding Horror: Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero?

Bookmarked January 29th, 2008 at 11:56 a.m.

"So let's be completely clear: when you buy a new Mac, you're buying a giant hardware dongle that allows you to run OS X software." Cute.

[Python-Dev] Monkeypatching idioms -- elegant or ugly?

Bookmarked January 28th, 2008 at 7:03 p.m.

A bit of code from GvR to make monkeypatching look cleaner. Very clever (of course), though I'm not sure how much I like it: I *like* that monkeypatching looks ugly in Python; it makes the monkeypatch code smell more obvious.

Programming Pearls

Bookmarked January 28th, 2008 at 3:03 p.m.

Bug 340318 – whenever you go to gmail.com the redirects on gmail makes FireFox freeze then crash [@ nsXBLService::GetBinding] [@ js_HashString]

Bookmarked January 27th, 2008 at 10:55 a.m.

Watch as the reporter goes batshitinsane and starts flaming the deveopers trying to help him. This is the wortst part of woking on Open Source: dealing with assholes like this.

This is the title of this post. | MetaFilter

Bookmarked January 24th, 2008 at 12:33 p.m.

This is the comment about the MetaFilter thread about self-reference.

W3C Emotion Incubator Group

Bookmarked January 24th, 2008 at 11:15 a.m.

This is why CSS 3 is still a draft.

EveryBlock: A news feed for your block.

Bookmarked January 23rd, 2008 at 3:59 p.m.

Whatdayaknow... looks like Everyblock is live. Time to play :)

Apress.The.Definitive.Guide.to.Django.Dec.2007.eBook-BBLAddison. (download torrent) - TPB

Bookmarked January 22nd, 2008 at 3:16 p.m.

I've been pirated! I'm so happy about this that I can barely contain myself!

InstallationOSXLeopard - IPython

Bookmarked January 18th, 2008 at 10:44 a.m.

Finally, a working readline for Leopard: "easy_install -f http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ readline"

Alp Toker » Blog Archive » Advances in Web typography

Bookmarked January 18th, 2008 at 8:52 a.m.

Hell. Yeah.

sausagefans.com :: your complete guide to great british sausages

Bookmarked January 17th, 2008 at 2:37 p.m.

SFW, surprisingly.

Sun acquires MySQL

Bookmarked January 16th, 2008 at 8:01 a.m.

Wow. This might actually be a good move for MySQL, but it certainly puts Sun's support of PostgreSQL in jepordy, which is a shame.

erlydtl - Google Code

Bookmarked January 16th, 2008 at 7:56 a.m.

A port of the Django Template Language to Erlang. Sweet!

TVIX-HD M-6500A with SMP8635 and MKV support « LoRe

Bookmarked January 15th, 2008 at 6:18 p.m.

Want.

YouTube - Principles of economics, translated

Bookmarked January 15th, 2008 at 1:33 p.m.

Wonderfuly funny, and sadly accurate.

Martin C. Martin » How to Interview A Manager

Bookmarked January 14th, 2008 at 7:26 p.m.

Some good questions to ask when interviewing people who'll manage developers.

RubyForge: Starling: Project Info

Bookmarked January 11th, 2008 at 5:15 p.m.

Hells yeah! I heard about this a while back, and have been hoping it would get open-sourced. Fantastic.

Las Vegas Sun

Bookmarked January 11th, 2008 at 11:28 a.m.

Ellington-powered just in time for the primaries.

g :: A Simple Plugin Framework

Bookmarked January 11th, 2008 at 8:29 a.m.

Marty implements a plugin architecture in six (brilliant) lines of code.

Autovacuum internals - Usama's personal blog

Bookmarked January 8th, 2008 at 11:18 a.m.

I've always wondered about this stuff; this is a great explanation.

StaticGenerator for Django

Bookmarked January 7th, 2008 at 2:41 p.m.

A cool idea: pre-bake static pages generated by Django. Sometimes simple is better.

Serious Eats: Gordon Ramsay vs. James May on The F Word

Bookmarked January 7th, 2008 at 1:36 p.m.

Man, why isn't US television this good!?

Google apps for your newsroom at Matt Croydon::Postneo

Bookmarked January 7th, 2008 at 1:24 p.m.

Matt points out an important trend here at the J-W. Google really is making working with data online much easier, and we're taking full advantage.

Google Spreadsheet: Functions for external data

Bookmarked January 7th, 2008 at 10:07 a.m.

"=importXML("www.google.com", "//a/@href")" -- wow.

TrueCrypt explained

Bookmarked January 4th, 2008 at 7:06 p.m.

Cryptography makes my head hurt.

ReadyNAS :: Forum - ReadyNAS Developer Network

Bookmarked January 4th, 2008 at 11:45 a.m.

Infrant/Netgear has started a little community for folks writing software for the ReadyNAS. Fan-freeking-tastic!

Utilitymill's developer comments on the security model

Bookmarked January 4th, 2008 at 11:41 a.m.

Sounds relatively smart. However, I'd be suspicious of using chroot -- I'm told it wasn't especially designed to be a security feature exactly. Were I to do something of this nature, I'd probably use pypy-sandbox.

Howto install Ubuntu on the Amazon Kindle - destraynor

Bookmarked January 4th, 2008 at 11:14 a.m.

"1. Don't do it. Seriously."

NPR Music: Guest DJ Mark Ronson

Bookmarked January 4th, 2008 at 8:33 a.m.

Mark Ronson -- one of my favorite DJs -- on All Songs Considered -- one of my favorite music podcasts. This should be awesome.

Front Range Pythoneering: Django on Jython: Minding the Gap

Bookmarked January 4th, 2008 at 8:22 a.m.

The Front Range Pythoneers strike again: Django now runs pretty well on Jython. This really is a big deal.

EnterpriseDB Book

Bookmarked January 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 p.m.

Could be an interesting book. EnterpriseDB is a commercial distro of PostgreSQL that aims (and achives) nearly total Oracle compatibility. I've always wanted to look closer at EnterpriseDB; this book might be a good excuse.

Amazon.com: Gold Collection: Music: Sarah Vaughan

Bookmarked January 2nd, 2008 at 1:54 p.m.

Three cheers for puerile humor! (Look at the URL...)

Blogging For Dollars: Denton to pay bloggers based on traffic

Bookmarked January 2nd, 2008 at 1:10 p.m.

Ignore the snarkiness of leaking an internal memo about leaking internal memos and read Nick's plan for paying bloggers for performance. I'd suggest doing something similar for bonafide journalists, but I'd probably get lynched.

PyCon 2008 Tutorial Day

Bookmarked January 2nd, 2008 at 12:01 p.m.

The tutorial list for PyCon 2008 is up, and it looks *fantastic*. They ended up going with *three* sessions of tutorials (instead of the two there's been in past years) so there's really a fantastic array to choose from (include a couple by yours truely).

How to undo a commit in subversion

Bookmarked January 2nd, 2008 at 11:48 a.m.

I *always* forget how to do this. Maybe now I won't anymore.

del.icio.us/url/94779974e02e62e7b62506fe05701ad7

Bookmarked January 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 a.m.

mcroydon: "Someday ruby developers will discover that putting RDoc online doesn't count as documentation."

[citation needed]

Bookmarked January 2nd, 2008 at 11:20 a.m.

Brilliant.

Handwriting on the Sky - Export for Python

Bookmarked January 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 a.m.

A neat idea: explicitly control which symbols a module exports. It smacks a bit of B&D programming, but could be useful.

Independent Sector | Accountability -- Developing a Code of Ethics

Bookmarked January 1st, 2008 at 7:33 p.m.

A model code of ethics for nonprofits.

macosxhints.com - 10.4: Combine PDFs without using Automator

Bookmarked January 1st, 2008 at 12:19 p.m.

Man, OSX ships with all sorts of gems.

pdftk - the pdf toolkit

Bookmarked January 1st, 2008 at 12:13 p.m.