July 2005
Saturday, 9th July 2005
Perl, Python, PHP, LAMP get mad play on latest Gillmor Gang (via) Ryan has transcribed the highlights from Dan Bricklin.
Sunday, 10th July 2005
Less code is more
I’ve pointed to it a couple of the times from the blogmarks, but it’s worth re-iterating here: if you have any interest at all in LAMP, agile programming or open-source development methodologies you should take a look at lesscode.org. To quote their about page:
[... 211 words]X2V. XSLT to change hCalendar and hCard in to iCalendar and vCard.
Monday, 11th July 2005
Quotes of the day. A great collection of quotes from Londoners.
London Will Fucking Twat You In A Minute, Son. This post, and the associated community, is the best thing I’ve seen all week.
Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade on the London terror attack (via) Watch the clip. It’s a fucking outrage.
Tuesday, 12th July 2005
BBC—OpenSource (via) “For the BBC, open source software development is an extension of our Public Service remit.”
Saturday, 16th July 2005
Django: The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. I helped develop this. Start with the overview. I’ll write more later.
Sunday, 17th July 2005
Introducing Django
You may know that I spent a year working in Kansas for a local newspaper—the Lawrence Journal-World. I’m delighted to announce that a decent chunk of the software I worked on there is now available as open-source, in the form of the Django web framework.
[... 614 words]Wednesday, 20th July 2005
Understanding the Greasemonkey vulnerability
If you have any version of Greasemonkey installed prior to 0.3.5, which was released a few hours ago, or if you are running any of the 0.4 alphas, you need to go and upgrade right now. All versions of Greasemonkey aside from 0.3.5 contain a nasty security hole, which could enable malicious web sites to read any file from your hard drive without you knowing.
[... 809 words]Google Moon—Lunar Landing Sites (via) Be sure to zoom all the way in for a Wallace and Gromit like revelation.
[Greasemonkey] A whole other kind of monkey. Help Aaron test the new, hopefully secure, Greasemonkey.
Friday, 22nd July 2005
Manhole cover on Wikipedia (via) Way more interesting than it should be.
Sunday, 24th July 2005
Django Reference (cheat) Sheet. This is great!
Sunday, 31st July 2005
Software Carpentry. Greg Wilson’s course on software development skills.
Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla. Surprisingly comprehensive guide to browser differences.
Another practical use for JavaScript closures. Create private methods by hiding them in a closure.