Links published in December 2007

14 links published in this month. See also: all links published in 2007, latest links.

sIFR 3 Beta 2: Fire Cracker

Mark continues putting in the hard work to make web designers look good.

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Indirection Is Not Abstraction

Bookmarking now so I can find it later when I want to refer to it. In the meantime, go read it; Zed knows whereof he speaks.

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django-mptt

Jonathan once again takes something complex and wraps it up in an app that makes it stupid easy. Somebody should buy that boy a beer.

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I Choo-Choo-Choose TurboGears

Jonathan does a good job of outlining why he prefers TurboGears.

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Frameworks Exist for Conceptual Integrity

Adam Gomaa hits quite a lot of nails right on the head (and those of you who think I’m biased because he’s saying good things about Django should recall that I first began to like his blog when he was fairly harshly criticizing Django). Go read what he has to say.

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0xDEFEC8ED

Best. Magic number. Ever.

(Via reddit)

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Author Pratchett has Alzheimer’s

As sad as the news is, the word from the man himself is uplifting as always:

I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as ‘I am not dead’. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think - it’s too soon to tell. I know it’s a very human thing to say “Is there anything I can do”, but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.

Lightly paraphrased: I ATEN’T DEAD.

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Growl and Django

Soon, Django will rule the world. Who’s up for integrating with Quicksilver?

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A special “Where’s WALL-E” edition of Why For?

Wow. Just wow.

(Via Brad Choate)

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Authenticate Django against Active Directory

I <3 authentication backends.

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A Klingon Christmas Carol

What’s more nerdy: Attending a performance of A Christmas Carol performed entirely in Klingon, or appearing in it?

I wish local theater would do more adaptations of classic Klingon works.

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So awkward.

Jessica Hagy (of indexed, which you should be reading if you’re not already) is providing sketch-based analysis of the presidential election for McClatchy.

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NFL Meteorologists Warn Steaming Black-Guy Heads Occurring Later Every Year

Brilliant.

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Cars like computers?

What if people treated cars like they treat computers” is an old and established meme in this industry, but this is one of the better variations on it I’ve seen.

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