Friday links on Monday
The 2007-04-16 at 10:35 by Loïc d'Anterroches filed under Friday Links.
It looks like the pattern for late Friday links is going ahead. My family did a 2000 km trip (with return) to come to see our son, so this end of the week was not free enough to write down the good links of the week, but here you have…
Python
- Live coding / code reloading for Python.
- How to Write a Spelling Corrector, in Python, but interesting not only for Python fans.
- Queue implementation.
Development
- Waterfall model on Wikipedia, yes, right from the start the Waterfall model was used only as an example of a broken approach.
- ocropus - Google Code, via. Fast OCR, yeah!
Design
24 ways a very nice site with 24 articles.
- Microsoft has now joined the HTML Working Group
- Collection: Design Patterns, via.
- Smoking toooooo much PHP - making XSLT readable.
- JSON and Browser Security.
Interesting
- Pearls Before Breakfast, very nice indeed. When I compare the general quality of the news papers in France against what I have in Germany and what I can read online for the rest of the world, I find the French ones of being rather bad with no real good "investigation" articles.
Friday links a little late
The 2007-04-07 at 21:02 by Loïc d'Anterroches filed under Friday Links.
Webdev
- Cross-Site Request Forgeries - If you are playing with AJAX, you should take the time to learn about the security implications.
- I Need Smart RSS - If you want to start yet another Web 2.0 company, here is an idea.
- Machine tags and ISBNs - The current simple tags are not working anymore, but it looks like the tags in the form of root:key=value like iso:isbn=12345678 will be more useful. Note that no hierarchy are available with this approach, but it is easier than writting RDF directly.
- Software as a Service - A list with the benefits but also some key questions about the use of software as a service.
- Office 2.0 Database - A list of software as a service.
Development/Hacking and hardware
- Tango Fridays - They meet on IRC on Fridays and create a lot of very nice icons…
- Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Monster Muck Mashup - Mass Video Conversion Using AWS - Great example of what can be done with the services provided by Amazon. Really impressive!
- Divmod - Quite some interesting Twisted Python based projects.
- Hacking Django, how Bazaar - Tips on using Bazaar to track a Subversion repository.
- Strangling Your Code and Growing Your Test Harness - The 9 Phases of Building Automated Tests Into Legacy Code.
- Gnome Online Desktop - Get your Desktop to be computer agnostic.
- Sun plans open source network attached storage - That would be great to have a small box, with low power comsumption, low noise, with let say 3 drives and a tape backup, all that powered by an open source stack.
Society
- Manager - Performance, Image, Exposure - You code and want a raise? Read that first.
- En Inde, 250$ le buffle, 12$ un enfant - Cela me rappelle une discussion avec une ingénieur venue faire du suivi d’une usine en Inde (la boite européenne devait produire en Inde car l’Inde a des taxes à l’import qui font que pour vendre en Inde à un prix compétitif, on est obligé de produire en Inde). Dans l’usine ils travaillaient avec des produits ultra toxiques. Quand je dis toxique, je dis : une petite goutte qui se pose sur votre peau et vous êtes mort. L’ingénieur montrait toutes les procédures de sécurité. Réponse du directeur de l’usine (un indien à propos des travailleurs sans caste) : "Vous savez, ceux-là, j’en ai autant que vous voulez, ce n’est pas la peine des les protéger".
Friday Links
The 2007-03-30 at 07:43 by Loïc d'Anterroches filed under Friday Links.
Python News
- Announcing Django 0.96!. My beloved Python web-framework got a new release.
- PyPy release 1.0. With JIT compiler generator, optimizations and more…
Business
- Why to Not Not Start a Startup. Another interesting/good essay from Paul Graham on the bad reasons not to start a startup.
- "Hindsight" Commencement Speech. By Guy Kawasaki. A little bit like the Do what you love by Steve Jobs.
Trends
A lot about scalability issues. Erlang is really going to find a lot fans once again in the near future.
- Availability is a Feature.
- Web 2.0: Shifting from "Get Fast" to "Get Massive".
- Partitioning == Scalability, but what about aggregation?
- Making it stick.: Process Improvement
Development
- Beginner’s guide to OpenID phishing. OpenID is also subject to phishing.
- Rules For JavaScript Library Authors by Dean Edwards. Interesting rules to keep in mind when developing JavaScript code.
Offline/Online…
- Joyent Slingshot. Run a Ruby On Rails application locally and sync it with a hosted one.
- DjangoKit. 3 days later, the same for a Django application…
- Do not forget XULRunner for a similar approach.
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