Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Activity tagged “for:mcroydon”
Bookmarks
Looking for awesome hip-hop mashups | Ask Metafilter
Holy crap, I hit the motherlode.
The Naive Approach to Hiring People
A pretty radical proposal reguarding hiring practices, but one that makes a *lot* of sense.
kleptones bestival 2007 download
Yay new Kleptones!
maemo.org - HildonDesktopPortability
One guide to getting Maemo running on a standard Ubuntu. Gotta give this a try.
This American Life: 110: Mapping
I'd forgotten about this episode (from late 1998) until it was re-run this weekend. Very apropos to the current amateur cartography craze. The first act is especially wonderful
Kansas State Campaign Finance
KS campaign finance disclosure data.
NBI ASCII Files - Bridge - FHWA
National Bridge Inventory data from the FHA. 2000-2006 data; incredibly clean.
HOBOTOPIA
Home of the custom monkey: “Wanna buy a monkey? You name a monkey, I draw a monkey. $20. Original color artwork on a postcard sent (in an envelope) to you or a friend. ”
List of sex positions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From a hilarious discussion about the “appropriateness” of Wikipedia's content came this. Funny for about seven different reasons — not the least of which is how amazingly unsexy Wikipedia manages to make sex.
iPhone Root Password Cracked - Hackint0sh
Not (even close to) a fully hacked (read: functional) iPhone, but this is how it always begins.
Home - Garmin Developer
Garmin's new developer website. APIs, device communication toolkits, services… must investigate further…
Efficient SQL
Greg Mullane's complete talk on optimizing postgresql. Looks like a few things have changed since 2003 (7.3 —> 8.2), but this still seems *very* relevant.
EXPLAIN plan Operators
Ridiculously in-depth explanation of what PostgreSQL means when you ask it to EXPLAIN. This is probably the only place this information lives.
pythong.org.
These guys have some interesting ideas about Python Packaging.
Unipath
Treat paths as objects, not strings. Even better than Jason's path.py, and there's even a chance this one'll end up in Python's stdlib.
Quick Django Benching :: SuperJared.com
A simple but powerful benchmark of Django served with mod_python, nginx, and lighttpd. Interesting, but not particularly surprising results.
Django profiling with hotshot and kcachegrind
Whoa, cool!
tfclassify - Trac
A document classification algorithm. Wonder if it would be useful for classifying stories…
Joyeur: The 10% “rule” for infrastructure costs
If he's right, I think we're spending far to little on Ellington.
Many Eyes
Swivel gets some (awesome looking) competition.
Onlife
“…observes your every interaction with app … then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more.”
Regret the Error: Advances in online corrections
A great roundup of how online newspapers handle corrections. We've got a few things we could learn from these ideas.
Duking It Out for a Houseful of Smiles - New York Times
Event the NYT disses the PS3: “In fact, if you are anything other than a complete Sony fanboy … go ahead and forget about the PlayStation 3 this year. Even if you find one, the overhyped PS3 does not deliver an entertainment experience commensurate with
DjangoAMF_en - Django AMF
“Django AMF is a Middleware for Django web framework written in Python. It enables Flash/Flex applications to invoke Django's view functions using AMF(Action Message Format).”
NowInStock.net - Knowing When and Where
Email alrets when the Wii gets in stock…
marxy's musing on technology: django on windows mobile 5
Awesome - Django on a PDA
Created by Camtasia Studio 3
A very well done screencast introducing Django.
The One That's Not About Music: The Daily Dbase | texasgigs.com
Mike's spin on database journalism. It's a great look at the same stuff Adrian's been talking about the the point of view of a (mostly) non-geek. Why can't all our clients be this cool?
Merquery Summer of Code Results - brian's blog
Brian's writeup on his SoC project (that I'm mentoring). Hopefully he'll get around to the TODOs in the next week :)
http://www.network-voice.com/oscon/
Files from the OSCON Asterisk tutorial — *great* stuff.
vonautomatisch | Django FileBrowser
“The FileBrowser is an extension to the Django Admin-Interface. It allows you to surf directories on the webserver and upload/delete specific file types. It is a tool for editors using the Admin-Interface to make it easier to work with Images or other Doc
Where are the cows?
Cows. Django-style.