Links published in January 2009

8 links published in this month. See also: all links published in 2009, latest links.

Sunshine Soundtrack available on iTunes

I’ve had some disagreements with folks about the quality of this film, but the soundtrack is one of the best I’ve heard in recent years and was unaccountably delayed, delayed, then delayed again. And I didn’t even know it finally popped up in iTunes (exclusively in iTunes, apparently) in November, because the search function in the iTunes store doesn’t turn it up.

Give it a listen; it’s amazingly good ambient music.

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PhilPapers

I need more free time to spend with this.

(Via Metafilter)

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Simple PostgreSQL Database Mapping

That’s it. That’s Simpycity. Simple, easy, seamless mapping of PostgreSQL stored procedures to Python.

Awesome stuff like this is why I ♥ Aurynn.

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UA Profiler

A crapload of useful information concerning browser support for useful performance tricks.

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The Borg design pattern

I actually ended up using this in real code at work, and it seems the simplest and most error-free way to do a “singleton” in Python.

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assertNoDiff

Yoink.

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queues

Matt makes the future happen.

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ADVII: Nine Programmer’s Notes

At a deep level, debugging with print statements is superior to all other approaches. Which is good, because we seem to be stuck with it.

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