Links published in May 2007
Review Board
Gets my vote for “coolest open-source Django app released so far”.
Google Gears
This is going to make a lot of noise, but from what I’ve seen so far it’s got a lot of problems.
JavaScript Minifier that doesn’t break code (in Perl)
Supporting IE conditional comments is huge; I’ve done some stuff to work around JSMin’s inability to handle those correctly, and it made my resulting (Python-based) JS packager a fair bit more complex.
Rapid development serving 500,000 pages/hour
Who says frameworks can’t scale?
And let me echo the shout-out to the Django community for all the great things that never would have happened with them; special thanks in this case go to Brian, whose patch helped the Curse guys keep running; this isn’t the first time he’s contributed a useful optimization to Django.
Pika!
From the depths comes a monster beyond our imagining.
Ottawa Coop
Headin’ to the country, gonna get me a lot of grain prices…
it begins
Opening a bug, attaching a patch, and expecting it to stand on its own seems foolish given the scarcity of resources and a reverse scarcity of code.
This isn’t Mozilla-specific advice :)
12. The Windhover. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems
Bookmarking so I’ll be able to find it again later.
AcceleratorDjango - TextUsers
Going to be needing this soon.
SixtyWatt
My partner in crime from back in my freelance days is now blogging his real passion: hunting down the music he loves and related paraphernalia. As he puts it:
This is the place for those who still buy music, who own a turntable, and who don’t mind paying overseas conversion rates.
High Voltage cable Inspection
Incredibly cool documentary clip, with voiceover from an inspector explaining the science that lets him do his job. Plus a choice quote:
There’s only three things I’ve ever been afraid of: electricity, heights and women. And I’m married, too.
(Via Rogers Cadenhead)
#414 (You dont the See Which Protocol) - Pidgin - Trac
Developers of a social networking tool fail to grasp social dynamics. Will they wake up in time?
(Via Mark Pilgrim)
Dinner-and-a-Movie Theory: Why Reddit Gets it Backwards
This is why newspapers lose when they prevent readers from commenting on their articles. The reason most people read the paper is that it gives them social currency with others. The value of the paper is directly proportional to its ability to serve as an object of sociability. Make the experience more social and the value goes up, less social and the value goes down.
Scunthorpe Problem
I never knew there was a name for this.