Archive for November 2005

November 2005

Sunday, 13th November 2005

London Web Frameworks Night—Location Change! It’s now at Westminster Uni, New Cavendish Street. 200 signups already!

# 11:54 am / web-frameworks

Monday, 14th November 2005

Penny Arcade is now running on Rails. Their archive navigation still sucks, sadly.

# 8:34 pm / penny-arcade, rails

Tuesday, 15th November 2005

The world’s least usable restroom. It really is.

# 4:34 pm

Wednesday, 16th November 2005

Google Base has launched. It’s fascinating.

# 11:41 am

Official Google Blog: First Base. With some cheesey testimonials.

# 11:44 am

Google Base is interesting

I’m still trying to get my head around Google Base. Here’s a brain-dump of my thinking so far. First, some links.

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12:34 pm / google, google-base

Live Sea Otter Cam (via) Devastatingly cute. Streaming Windows Media (works on my Mac).

# 7:27 pm

urllib2: The Missing Manual (via) Stuff that really should be in the official documentation.

# 10:32 pm

OSCON 2005 Keynote—Identity 2.0 (via) Great presentation, great presentation style.

# 11:22 pm

Friday, 18th November 2005

Snakes and Rubies event. Rails and Django event in Chicago on December 3rd.

# 7:36 am / rails

Stop card sharp practice. Which? found that 21 per cent of people would give their account number to a caller claiming to be their bank or credit card company.

# 2:03 pm

W3C Web APIs Working Group (via) A welcome addition.

# 3:36 pm / w3c, webapis

Unicodification (via) How to handle unicode in Python web applications.

# 4:10 pm

Saturday, 19th November 2005

Spy cameras to spot drivers’ every move (via) Say goodbye to civil liberties in the UK.

# 7:40 pm

Tuesday, 22nd November 2005

eBay’s “fewer words” search. This is a neat discoverablity enhancement to search.

# 5:52 am

The blooming of information architecture at Google. A discussion of the IA concepts embedded in Google Base.

# 5:56 am / google, information-architecture

Zero-Day Exploit Targets IE (via) Remote code execution. No patch yet; disable Active Scripting instead.

# 6:24 am / exploits, internet-explorer, security, zeroday

del.icio.us/help/navigation. So that’s what the input boxes in the nav are for.

# 8:04 pm / delicious

Wednesday, 23rd November 2005

Simple iterator-based parsing (via) Beautifully elegant Python parsing trick

# 11:44 am

Thursday, 24th November 2005

Notes on public speaking

I’m pretty inexperienced as a public speaker, but somehow I landed two speaking gigs in as many weeks recently and learnt some useful lessons about presenting in the process.

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12:05 am / dconstruct, django, matt-biddulph, speaking

Web_2.0.jpg. That’s that one sorted then. I like the inclusion of “beta”.

# 11:17 am