Spawning + Django - Eric Florenzano's Website
Bookmarked July 31st, 2008 at 7:25 a.m.
Is Spawning Python's answer to Mongrel?
Donation Acknowlegement Letters
Bookmarked July 30th, 2008 at 3:14 p.m.
Pinax
Bookmarked July 30th, 2008 at 10:35 a.m.
"A platform for rapidly developing websites." I'm simply astounded by how far Pinax has come in the short time it's been around. The list of features is huge; I think with a little more work Pinax could become a serious competitor to Plone or Drupal.
OSCON in 37 minutes
Bookmarked July 29th, 2008 at 1:45 p.m.
A fantastic idea: Gregg asked folks who spoke at OSCON to give the gist of their talk in 30 seconds or less. I'm totally going to steal this idea for future conferences -- it's simply brilliant.
Alaska Senator Is Indicted on Corruption Charges - NYTimes.com
Bookmarked July 29th, 2008 at 1:41 p.m.
"Senator Ted Stevens [...] has been indicted on federal corruption charges." Oh frabjous day!
CNET's Shelby Bonnie Returns to Online Media - ClickZ
Bookmarked July 28th, 2008 at 8:20 p.m.
Another good article about us -- they even mention me :)
Derek Powazek - 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments
Bookmarked July 28th, 2008 at 7:46 p.m.
Funny; we did at least 8/10 of these from day 1 of comments on the J-W. Didn't realize these rules were so revolutionary.
How Skype & Co. get round firewalls - heise Security UK
Bookmarked July 28th, 2008 at 5:45 p.m.
I'd always wondered how this works. Nifty trick.
Shelby Bonnie Takes Another Swig of Online Media - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Bookmarked July 28th, 2008 at 12:23 p.m.
Our first coverage in a mainstream media source. Not a bad article -- light on details, but I think that's the way we'd prefer it.
How Django is good for SEO | patrickbeeson.com
Bookmarked July 28th, 2008 at 11:59 a.m.
99% of SEO is snake oil. Django does the other 1% very, very well.
django-assets - Google Code
Bookmarked July 27th, 2008 at 6:40 p.m.
Video game lists - giantbomb.com
Bookmarked July 26th, 2008 at 6:18 p.m.
Perhaps my favorite feature of Vines (the software behind GiantBomb) are the user lists. I love seeing the different uses that people make of 'em: right now I'm seeing a bunch of "favorites" and "wishlists", but also "best music", "best movie tie-ins", et
Share Apps between iPhones » All Forces
Bookmarked July 26th, 2008 at 6:12 p.m.
I just assumed this was impossible. I'll bet a later update breaks this loophole -- yay DRM! -- but for now it's pretty nice.
FLOSS Weekly 34: Django
Bookmarked July 26th, 2008 at 5:59 p.m.
Randel Schwartz interviewed me about Django at OSCON. I think it went pretty well; listen and judge for yourself.
AWS Service Health Dashboard - Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008
Bookmarked July 25th, 2008 at 10:03 p.m.
Amazon's explanation of the 7/20 downtime. This is *exactly* the detailed, informative, forward-looking postmortem that every SaaS provider ought to be issuing; bravo to Amazon.
Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops
Bookmarked July 24th, 2008 at 4:09 p.m.
The first (that I know of) open source, non-centralized laptop tracker. Gotta give this a shot.
★ Samwise rides again » Blog Archive » OSCON 2008 wednesday morning keynotes ★
Bookmarked July 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 a.m.
So far OSCON's off to a craptactular start.
Hamburger (video game object) - giantbomb.com
Bookmarked July 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 a.m.
"A hamburger is, traditionally, a hunk of ground beef served between two pieces of bun-configured bread."
Trademark Policy Pointers | FLOSS Foundations
Bookmarked July 20th, 2008 at 5:28 p.m.
PSF Trademark Usage Policy
Bookmarked July 20th, 2008 at 3:45 p.m.
Trademark - GNOME
Bookmarked July 20th, 2008 at 3:45 p.m.
Trademark Policy | Ubuntu
Bookmarked July 20th, 2008 at 3:44 p.m.
Changeset 7995 - Django Code - Trac
Bookmarked July 19th, 2008 at 3:17 p.m.
Oh, the perils of git-svn.
Apple - Trailers - Watchmen - HD
Bookmarked July 19th, 2008 at 1:32 a.m.
I'm waiting for this movie with a ridiculous mixture of excitement and dread. It could be the most amazing thing on screen, but chances are it'll instead be a travesty.
Changeset 7967 - Django Code - Trac
Bookmarked July 18th, 2008 at 7:01 p.m.
"Merged the newforms-admin branch into trunk." WAHOO!
Threepenny Planet: Muphry's Law
Bookmarked July 16th, 2008 at 2:04 p.m.
"Muphry's Law dictates that if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written [...]"
The Strange Zen Of JavaScript: Function reference vs. function call
Bookmarked July 16th, 2008 at 2:03 p.m.
I sometimes think the difference between a good and a bad programmer is an understanding of first-class functions.
Looking for awesome hip-hop mashups | Ask Metafilter
Bookmarked July 16th, 2008 at 11:14 a.m.
Holy crap, I hit the motherlode.
Frank Wierzbicki's Weblog: Jython 2.5 Alpha Released!
Bookmarked July 15th, 2008 at 12:55 p.m.
Huzzah!
Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python
Bookmarked July 14th, 2008 at 1:37 p.m.
Fantastic article on building a top-down parser in just a few hundred lines of Python. Read this even if you don't care about parsing: effbot really demonstrates many of the cool idiomatic tricks that makes Python such a pleasure to write and read.
Protocol buffers: the early reviews are in [dive into mark]
Bookmarked July 12th, 2008 at 10:35 p.m.
Absolutely perfect roundup of the reaction to protocol buffers.
Django snippets: Command Line Script Launcher
Bookmarked July 12th, 2008 at 1 p.m.
Clever management comment to run a script in the current Django context. Would make a good addition to django-command-extensions, I think.
Awesome hosting options » Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal
Bookmarked July 12th, 2008 at 11:31 a.m.
Harper Reed (CTO of SkinnyCorp) rounds up good hosting providers. I can second his recommendations for MediaTemple and Webfaction, which means I really gotta check out some of these other options.
Amazon.com: Balla Powder: Scented Scrotum Talc for Men - 3.5oz: Beauty
Bookmarked July 11th, 2008 at 9:03 p.m.
Guaranteed to prevent the dreaded "bat wing" syndrome!
RightScale Dashboard Demo
Bookmarked July 11th, 2008 at 9:41 a.m.
Amazing-looking dashboard/GUI for AWS/EC2. I gotta give this a try.
Tube Shelves - Instructables - DIY, How To, home, craft
Bookmarked July 10th, 2008 at 12:02 p.m.
Use Tabs in Textmate for Files Opened Via Transmit by Stuart Colville
Bookmarked July 9th, 2008 at 11:18 p.m.
Brilliant little hack. The (lack of) Transmit/Textmate integration is theo nly part of my workflow I hate; this fixes it.
django-tables: A QuerySet renderer
Bookmarked July 9th, 2008 at 10:22 a.m.
Really neat base class for doing presentation of tabular data in Django. Very well-done.
howiworkdaily - Callcast - Jacob Kaplan-Moss and DjangoCon 2008
Bookmarked July 7th, 2008 at 1:48 p.m.
Kevin pinned me down and got me to share some details about DjangoCon 2008.
Anil Dash: A Blog About Making Culture
Bookmarked July 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 p.m.
"Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-collar worker per year, and then directing one third of the proceeds to curing AIDS and malaria. That, effectively, is what Bill Gates has done."
Matasano Chargen » Ruby’s Vulnerability Handling Debacle
Bookmarked July 1st, 2008 at 1:59 p.m.
Handing security problems is the *worst* part of being an OSS maintainer. Learn from what the Ruby folks did wrong.
w/ extra duck. - a set on Flickr
Bookmarked July 1st, 2008 at 12:28 p.m.
There are days when the Internet is so full of awesomeness I can barely stand it. This is one of those days.
