Mark Dominus recounts the sort of experience that’s all too familiar for people who regularly work with third-party data sources. If you know someone who produces data, have them read this.
(Via reddit)
The first public release of Arc, presumably the contender Paul Graham intends to put forward as a hundred-year language. Of course, limiting it to ASCII makes it more of a twenty-years-ago language, but hopefully that’ll change in time.
No, Jeff, this is the best police blotter ever.
Full of awesome.
The W3C Emotion Incubator group was chartered “to investigate the prospects of defining a general-purpose Emotion annotation and representation language, which should be usable in a large variety of technological contexts where emotions need to be represented”.
So that’s what they’ve been up to all these years…
(Via Matt)
Paul produces a fully-functioning Django site, including templates and some initial data population, in 105 lines.
Jonathan has developed perhaps the most useful suite of Django apps outside the contrib folder, and they just keep getting better.
Peter Cooper gets discussion rolling on how to solve the deployment issue for Ruby.
Ian points out some of the advantages of PHP’s deployment model, of which framework developers/users should take note.
Wow.
(Via ZIWT)
Do I really have to write all that code?
Luke Wroblewski, who’s literally writing the book on form design, has a nice roundup of useful recent articles on the topic.