blech + development 297
How to make custom maps? Learn by doing | Alastair Coote
february 2012 by blech
"Every time I wanted to show the user’s current location this ridiculously bright Google Map showed up and ruined my carefully cultivated style. Something had to be done." Alistair Coote tells you how to do it.
maps
mapping
design
development
from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
Why are column oriented databases faster than row oriented? | Terence Siganakis
february 2012 by blech
On using bitmap encoding per column to make databases (such as Mongo and Vertica) faster.
database
speed
columnoriented
technology
development
from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
Programming should take pride of place in our schools | The Observer
december 2011 by blech
"If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taught, we're shutting the door on our children's futures." John Naughton on why people shouldn't just be learning programming, but learning why software is so important.
uk
education
programming
development
ict
observer
from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
An HSR Country is a Centralized Country | Pedestrian Observations
december 2011 by blech
An interesting read on high speed rail and the development it spurs. "What this suggests is that HSR does not create centralization so much as reinforces it when it already exists. The Shinkansen made the rest of Japan more dependent on Tokyo, and the TGV has made most of France more dependent on Paris." The author considers the US, but surely the UK would go the way of France and Japan also.
development
railways
highspeedrail
france
japan
us
polycentricity
december 2011 by blech
The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme | Grist
june 2011 by blech
"our own history -- let alone a tour of other parts of the world -- reveals a different reality. Across cultures, over thousands of years, people have traditionally built places scaled to the individual. It is only the last two generations that we have scaled places to the automobile."
urbanism
development
cars
transport
politics
economics
us
from delicious
june 2011 by blech
Project Hosting on Google Code | logstalgia
december 2010 by blech
"Logstalgia is a website traffic visualization that replays or streams Apache web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an never ending torrent of requests."
visualisation
web
development
apache
logs
via:@unixdaemon
from delicious
december 2010 by blech
How to hack Amazon with a book | Dr. Wetter
december 2010 by blech
"Whereas the standard example for a stored XSS vulnerability over an out-of-band channel is a web mailer like OWA using SMTP here this channel for the attack is kind of — err, let's put it this way — unusual: One has to write a book!"
security
amazon
xss
books
development
web
from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Analysing a Touch-to-Desktop UI port | Daniel Kennett
december 2010 by blech
"Someone came out with a Mac OS application that’s clearly a touch UI crowbarred into a point-and-click universe. And it doesn’t work." A good post by Daniel Kennett using Fitt's Law to start explaining why "touch UIs typically simply don’t work in mouse-driven environments", in the light of a bunch of Mac App Store ports by iOS developers. <br />
(Of course, Apple fans have spent the last few years deriding Windows tablets/slates/things for trying to go the other way with insufficient work. We'll see if they're resistant to the inverse.)
apple
macosx
ios
development
ui
interface
design
via:rentzsch
from delicious
(Of course, Apple fans have spent the last few years deriding Windows tablets/slates/things for trying to go the other way with insufficient work. We'll see if they're resistant to the inverse.)
december 2010 by blech
journal.stuffwithstuff.com » Blog Archive » The Biology of Sloppy Code
december 2010 by blech
To the question, “what is the next big trend in programming”, Guy Steele said, “Maybe it’s sloppy programming.”
development
language
code
from:instapaper
from instapaper
december 2010 by blech
Instapaper's Creation & Plan to Add Social Features | ReadWriteWeb
october 2010 by blech
Speaking of Instapaper, here's an interview with Marco Arment. The meat is towards the end (annoyingly, split over onto a second page, so Instapaper users have to use print page hacks), where he talks about adding a full API and social features.
instapaper
marcoarment
interview
development
iphone
mobile
api
from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Styled Maps Using Google Maps API Version 3 | 41Latitude
october 2010 by blech
"Perhaps the best feature of Google Maps API V3 is that you can now remove select map elements. Why is this API V3’s best feature, you ask? Well, because it allows you to remove map elements that are not particularly relevant to your mashup. " This looks like a very useful guide, with examples.
google/maps
maps
design
google
json
development
api
from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Welcome! | PyEphem
june 2010 by blech
"PyEphem provides scientific-grade astronomical computations for the Python programming language. Given a date and location on the Earth’s surface, it can compute the positions of the Sun and Moon, of the planets and their moons, and of any asteroids, comets, or earth satellites whose orbital elements the user can provide."
python
code
library
module
science
space
astronomy
iss
development
sciencehackday
from delicious
june 2010 by blech
Heathrow Free Zone | Spillway
june 2010 by blech
"What we have here is a readymade zone – an area held slightly apart from the rest of the city, with unusual hazards and unusual advantages. This area is ripe for experimentation." Some interesting propositions.
london
heathrow
urbanism
development
transport
from delicious
june 2010 by blech
end to end build for mac os x | cairo
february 2010 by blech
There's some stuff in here which I probably didn't need to do, but using these versions and these instructions (as far as Cairo, where I abandoned the building for multiple architectures) got me a version which had some test failures but installed and worked with pycairo and Aaron's py-modestMMarkers.
macosx
development
software
installation
february 2010 by blech
Formatted XML is not displayed in the browser | Firebug
february 2010 by blech
I ran into this with Firebug 1.5 and Firefox 3.5.7. For now I'm reverting to Firebug 1.4.5, since that seems to be less problematic.
firefox
firebug
development
xml
bug
february 2010 by blech
Anonymous Facebook Employee | The Rumpus.net
january 2010 by blech
An interesting interview (assuming it's true) on Facebook, privacy, administration tools ("You’ve previously mentioned a master password, which you no longer use."), statistics and user analysis, and an upcoming compiled PHP. As an aside, it seems Facebook now has a London data centre.
facebook
privacy
development
technology
interview
php
via:zimpenfish
via:simonwillison
january 2010 by blech
the future is staring us in the face | tecznotes
november 2009 by blech
"That's the line we use around the office whenever the subject of HTML and canvas comes up - we use Adobe Flash for most everything now, but we don't expect that situation to last forever. The work done by Mozilla on Gecko and Apple on WebKit is one possible future for online design and visualization, and it's turning slowly to face us right about now." Lots of good stuff in here.
development
design
javascript
canvas
graphics
processing
html
html5
november 2009 by blech
TidBITS Macs & Mac OS X: Snow Leopard Snubs Document Creator Codes
september 2009 by blech
"an application in Snow Leopard cannot use a creator code attached to a document to bind that document to itself." Good coverage here of what happened and workarounds.
apple
macosx
unix
finder
hfs
10.6
development
via:@siracusa
september 2009 by blech
aanand's cmon at master | GitHub
august 2009 by blech
"cmon is an HTML preprocessor that adds powerful layout capabilities to your markup. With cmon, you can engineer solid, cross-browser layouts that in CSS would require hours of writing and debugging browser-specific behaviour.
html
web
development
code
css
github
via:@robinhouston
august 2009 by blech
The Ultimate Guide to Decoding the Flickr API | Nettuts+
july 2009 by blech
A pretty good introductiory article to working with the Flickr API in the raw, using JSON (hurrah), and including uploading.
development
flickr
api
javascript
json
auth
july 2009 by blech
The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News | bitquabit
july 2009 by blech
"A developer, asked how hard something will be to clone, simply does not think about the polish, because the polish is incidental to the implementation." On reimplementing Stack Overflow (or anything, really) in a weekend.
development
design
ui
comment
july 2009 by blech
Walls Come Tumbling Down | For A Beautiful Web
july 2009 by blech
"It's time to stop showing clients static design visuals" Damn right. All my personal projects have been designed along with the backend code, and they're of variable prettiness, but at least they work. I'm finding the more traditional model much, much harder to deal with these days.
development
design
web
css
andyclarke
via:everyone
july 2009 by blech
Hosting Rails and Django using Passenger | jerakeen.org
may 2009 by blech
A nice overview of how to use Phusion Passenger, and why you'd want to. I share some of these same problems, but I seem to be happier scattering my apps across platforms that I don't control (groupr is on AppJet, snaptrip on GAE). Still, I should have a look at Passenger on Dreamhost.
passenger
rails
django
jerakeen
heroku
development
deployment
may 2009 by blech
Machine tag browsing | Adactio: Journal
may 2009 by blech
A nice way of displaying machine tags, including reclaiming HTML tables (and with a nod to the Flickr machine tag browser; thanks). I'm not sure if I could make this work for the Flickr version; there are possibly too many namespaces. Still, maybe I'll try for the most popular ones.
tags
machinetags
ui
html
css
development
huffduffer
data
via:straup
via:jerakeen
may 2009 by blech
Oberon | ignore the code
may 2009 by blech
"Steven Frank’s essay on the current state of the desktop UI reminded me of Oberon, a delightfully insane system I used back when I was studying computer science at ETH Zürich. The first thing you have to understand about Oberon is that it evolved entirely outside of the normal genealogy of user interfaces." Interesting.
design
ui
computing
development
cli
gui
interface
os
history
may 2009 by blech
The Atom Publishing Protocol is a failure | Joe Gregorio
april 2009 by blech
The headline seems correct to me too (using the Vox API, which is Atom, is painful in a way using the snowflake APIs from Flickr and Tumblr isn't- hm, how much does (human readable) documentation matter?), but Gregorio takes the time to figure out why, and the reasons seem pretty accurate on reflection.
web
development
apis
atom
json
via:kellan
april 2009 by blech
instant sinatra deployment with heroku | scraplab
march 2009 by blech
Tom Taylor on his experiences with Heroku. It's definitely one of the three cloud platforms I'd recommend (the others are GAE (of course) and AppJet). Each has strengths and weakness; Heroku seems to be the one that provides the closest equivalent of EC2 whilst still being a platform, rather than raw metal.
heroku
paas
development
ruby
deployment
march 2009 by blech
Meggy Jr RGB | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
february 2009 by blech
"Meggy Jr RGB is a new kit that we designed as a platform to develop handheld pixel games. It's based around a fully addressable 8x8 RGB LED matrix display, and features six big fat buttons for comfy game play." Looks a bit like a baby Tenori-On, and at a baby price, too: $75 (vs £700-odd for the Tenori-On). Of course, it's a very different beast, but still, impressive.
development
games
arduino
electronics
hardware
opensource
via:zimpenfish
february 2009 by blech
Facing up to Fonts | Slides and notes
february 2009 by blech
Richard Rutter on the state of the art in web font specification.
design
css
typography
slides
pdf
type
development
february 2009 by blech
A roadmap update! | Google App Engine Blog
february 2009 by blech
Background tasks and task queues, XMPP and receiving email, oh my! Handy stuff, when it shows up (possibly for Google IO in May?)
google
appengine
queue
cron
email
xmpp
development
february 2009 by blech
CSS Animation | Surfin' Safari
february 2009 by blech
"the WebKit on iPhone 2.0 already supports CSS Animations (as well as CSS Transforms and CSS Transitions). The iPhone implementation has been optimized for the platform so you get fantastic performance"
html
css
webkit
animation
development
iphone
february 2009 by blech
New publishing system / tour of my head | inessential.com
january 2009 by blech
OK, so it looks very clean, and I'm sure it works for Brent, but the generate-flat-pages model really doesn't work for comments (as noted) nor for aggregating your activity (which isn't, but which I think is going to become seen as being really quite important). Still, nice to see the thinking spelt out.
development
publishing
ruby
january 2009 by blech
Objective C and iPhone: useful libraries | Hackdiary
january 2009 by blech
Matt Biddulph's list of useful libraries for the iPhone, from the perspective of someone used to the flexibility of scripting languages (that'd be me too). Includes my ex-colleague Stig Brautaset's JSON library.
iphone
objc
json
regex
development
mattb
stig
january 2009 by blech
advice to a new journalist: learn to code | Charles Arthur
january 2009 by blech
"You’d be able to knock up something like the Guardian BNP map without a second thought." I'd argue that you don't necessarily need to be able to code, but you do need to be able to use good tools; Excel and DabbleDB spring to mind (but aren't mentioned in the comments). (Note megp asking for Dopplr CSV exports so she can do her own visualisations.) Still, interesting thoughts.
journalism
programming
development
code
tools
january 2009 by blech
Transition Info | Heroku Garden
january 2009 by blech
The old hosted Ruby on Rails site, Heroku, is now setting upa a commercial arm; old free accounts (like mine) ar moving to Heroku Garden. This is what I need to do at some point to keep it working. Edit: the gem is broken, I can't find my repository; it all seems to have gone to seed. Sigh.
heroku
rails
ruby
paas
git
development
todo
january 2009 by blech
Standalone Apps with CouchDB | Daytime Running Lights
january 2009 by blech
"building raw Ajax + JSON apps is the fastest, simplest way to get a new idea in front of other people" Well, both of my recent Flickr explorations have pretty much been made that way. CouchDB as application platform might be a nice thing to explore, along with AppJet and Reasonably Smart.
couchdb
javascript
development
ajax
json
january 2009 by blech
jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation | jQuery
january 2009 by blech
A new release, including the new Sizzle selector library, and a foundation in case any of the developers flip out (or join Google, or whatever it is that gets a project neglected these days).
javascript
jquery
library
dom
html
development
january 2009 by blech
No New Language In 2009 | Giles Bowkett
january 2009 by blech
"You can't learn a language in a year. It can't be done. I've been writing Ruby for three years and I don't really know it." I agree I need short-term goals, but I'm still keen not to knock up new things all the time, so my new year's resolution is slightly different. We'll see how that goes.
development
programming
newyear
article
january 2009 by blech
How to become a better programmer | Rasmusson
january 2009 by blech
"When you build something, and then don’t stick around to maintain it, you are only watching half the movie. You don’t get to see how it ends." I haven't got around to posting about it (too busy!) but my new year's resolution is to revisit old projects rather then just setting them free, and going on to the next new thing. This is part of why that's a good idea.
programming
development
maintenance
newyear
january 2009 by blech
Fast, Nimble PDF Generation For Ruby | Prawn
january 2009 by blech
"If you've ever needed to produce PDF documents before, in Ruby or another language, you probably know how much it can suck. Prawn takes the pain out of generating beautiful printable documents" If Tom and mattb recommend this, I think I can trust it to work.
pdf
ruby
development
tools
printing
software
papernet
via:jerakeen
january 2009 by blech
2009 Web Predictions | ReadWriteWeb
december 2008 by blech
A consensus on Facebook Connect becoming de-facto single sign on everywhere (albeit with reservations, and one vote for Google instead), with a few people talking about lifestreaming (and more importantly dealing with the firehose, so filtering/recommendation). Worth a scan through, although it does peter out towards the end.
web
development
facebook
facebookconnect
openid
google
twitter
aggregation
lifestream
comment
december 2008 by blech
10 Insanely Useful Django Tips | NETTUTS
december 2008 by blech
There's some overlap here with the tips from Eric Holscher, but this is shorter anyway. Still, probably worth delving into too.
django
python
development
via:gnat
december 2008 by blech
Practical Django Projects | Hedged down
december 2008 by blech
Collected changes from the aforementioned James Bennett's book, Practical Django Projects, to make the examples work with the Django 1.0 release.
django
book
errata
python
development
via:gnat
december 2008 by blech
How Django processes a request | B-List
december 2008 by blech
James Bennett's blog is always worth a read, and this post on, well, how Django processes a request is definitely useful, if you want to understand more about what all those "middleware" lines in settings.py do.
django
http
web
request
development
python
via:gnat
december 2008 by blech
Pages Generator | GitHub
december 2008 by blech
GitHub's pages get even slicker, with one-click per-project homepage generation. Git unbelievers might like to note the prominent tarball/zip download links on the finished page.
git
github
versioncontrol
software
development
via:recoil
december 2008 by blech
YQL - converting the web to JSON with mock SQL | Ajaxian
december 2008 by blech
A writeup of Yahoo's YQL, with special attention paid to the fact it outputs in JSON (yay JSON!). It certainly does a good job of making what I've been calling "API joins" for a while explicit, both in terms of the fact they're like database joins, and also the fact that they're really slow.
ajaxian
ajax
article
yql
yahoo
api
development
javascript
web
json
december 2008 by blech
Yahoo! Query Language | YDN
december 2008 by blech
"The YQL platform provides a single endpoint service that enables developers to query, filter and combine data across Yahoo! and beyond. YQL exposes a SQL-like SELECT syntax that that is both familiar to developers and expressive enough for getting the right data." A fairly interesting experiment, if nothing else.
development
web
api
javascript
yahoo
webservice
json
sql
via:pip
december 2008 by blech
GitHub Pages | GitHub
december 2008 by blech
This is very clever, and I think I can see where it could be useful (project pages? collections of projects?) but I think I'm missing a big picture somewhere. Maybe I should spend more time trying to find it.
development
git
github
versioncontrol
web
december 2008 by blech
Using Git to manage a web site | Abhijit Menon-Sen
december 2008 by blech
'The one-line summary: push into a remote repository that has a detached work tree, and a post-receive hook that runs "git checkout -f".'
git
deployment
versioncontrol
web
development
via:zimpenfish
december 2008 by blech
Getting a visitor's location (city) | HubLog
december 2008 by blech
When did this get so easy?
location
google
maxmind
javascript
geo
web
development
december 2008 by blech
On App Engine | paulhammond.org
december 2008 by blech
This pretty much mirrors my experience with App Engine; well documented, and trivially easy to deploy to. I've not used custom domains, so I've not run into the problems Paul found, but even so, he concludes, "App Engine is pretty much perfect for apps like this, and I can see me using it a lot more in the future..."
google
appengine
python
development
documentation
paulhammond
december 2008 by blech
Home | GeoKit for Rails
december 2008 by blech
Looks interesting, although my geo-using projects are in GAE and I've just discovered geopy, which seems to be working. As you'd expect, over in the Rails world there's a bit more magic involved (like "an option to automatically geocode a model's address field on create").
ruby
rails
code
development
geowanking
via:straup
december 2008 by blech
Flame for the iPhone | jerakeen.org
december 2008 by blech
Still very much a proof of concept, Tom Insam's written Flame for the iPhone - only for the emulator, so far. The comments turn into a bit of an argument about git between Tom, Sven-S. Porst and myself about git and dvcs in general.
iphone
app
development
flame
bonjour
svn
versioncontrol
blogcomment
december 2008 by blech
The Opposite of Momentum | kd.to_tumblr
november 2008 by blech
An interesting rant on the future, or perhaps lack of future, of Ruby. It's interesting he mentions the JavaScript arms race- perhaps the next big thing (if it's not actually JS) will be a specification with competing runtimes, rather than the Perl/Ruby model of a single official intepreter.
ruby
comment
development
performance
implementation
november 2008 by blech
EtherPad: Real-time Editing with JavaScript | John Resig
november 2008 by blech
John Resig mentions the AppJet back end of EtherPad. I was intending to write a post something like this, but I'll just say that AppJet looks like it might turn out to be more than just the interesting but ultimately irrelevant platform it seemed a month ago.
javascript
etherpad
appjet
development
web
november 2008 by blech
5 Questions for Gustavo | code.flickr.com
november 2008 by blech
"Cache, cache, cache." Interesting stuff on large-scale data analysis on Flickr, including recommendation systems based on favourites.
flickr
code
developer
development
interview
november 2008 by blech
AppJet: The Platform behind EtherPad | EtherPad Blog
november 2008 by blech
"EtherPad was created and hosted entirely using a new, not-yet-released version of The AppJet Web Platform." "Features: * JavaScript execution on both the client and server * Scalable, cross-browser persistent client sockets" Interesting...
appjet
etherpad
javascript
comet
development
november 2008 by blech
Realtime Collaborative Text Editing | EtherPad
november 2008 by blech
"The perfect way to collaborate on a text document and keep everyone literally on the same page." New 'SubEthaEdit for the web' from the people behind AppJet. (In fact, it's very very similar to the AppJet in-browser IDE.)
etherpad
sharing
javascript
application
development
tools
writing
november 2008 by blech
PhoneGap, now for Android | Joe@Nitobi
november 2008 by blech
Uses PhoneGap, but targets Android. Two platforms for the price of one?
development
android
iphone
html
november 2008 by blech
To WebKit or not to WebKit within your iPhone app? | Dr Nic
november 2008 by blech
"on the iPhone there is this nifty object called UIWebView. Otherwise known as WebKit. Otherwise known as an embedded browser in your iPhone app." "First: the downsides... it's slow.... it's slow." "Now I realise that, technically speaking, that's only one flaw but I thought it was such a big one it was worth mentioning twice."
iphone
development
hhtml
webkit
javascript
via:mattb
november 2008 by blech
Bridging the iPhone GAP | PhoneGap
november 2008 by blech
"PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript. We're trying to make iPhone app development easy and open."
iphone
development
apple
webkit
html
november 2008 by blech
iPhone local web applications | jerakeen.org
november 2008 by blech
"I do, however, want to write local apps in a language that’s a little higher-level than Objective-C. It’s nice and all, but I prefer things to be more flexible."
iphone
webkit
javascript
development
html
blogcomment
november 2008 by blech
How people really use the iPhone | SlideShare
november 2008 by blech
Lots of interesting stuff in here, both about the iPhone's UI metaphors, and also pricing responses on the App Store.
apple
iphone
software
development
business
usability
appstore
slideshare
presentation
via:rodcorp
via:infovore
november 2008 by blech
django-cron | Google Code
october 2008 by blech
I wonder if this would work on App Engine?
python
django
cron
development
jobqueue
october 2008 by blech
A Social Browser for Mac OS X Leopard | Cruz
october 2008 by blech
It's only 0.1, so it's more promise than execution at the moment, and I don't think I "get" BrowsaBowsa. Still, it doesn't need me to log in to everything afresh, it supports userscripts (somewhat), and so I'll try and keep an eye on it.
macosx
web
browser
social
webkit
development
october 2008 by blech
Instant Web Programming | AppJet
october 2008 by blech
I've only just discovered this, another JavaScript server-side framework. It seems to have a reasonably active developer community, but so far I'm finding it pretty limited - everything has to live in one file, even templates, and annoyingly there's no E4X. Still, better than nothing, maybe?
javascript
browser
applications
framework
development
web
zimki
october 2008 by blech
Philip Oltermann asks about guilty pleasures | guardian.co.uk
october 2008 by blech
Richard Dawkins: "Isn't programming useful? In the right hands, yes. But my projects ... could all be done better (and were) by professionals. It was a classic addiction: prolonged frustration, occasionally rewarded by a briefly glowing fix of achievement."
guardian
article
comment
interview
computing
development
programming
culture
dawkins
october 2008 by blech
Faking a message queue | jerakeen.org
october 2008 by blech
Sign me up for the database-using faked message queue. While we're at it, can we have one built in to a web app framework please? Also, one that ran on a simple DB might be nice (rather than needing MySQL).
messaging
database
development
wishlist
october 2008 by blech
Trying Out CouchDB In FireBug | Ben Atkin’s Weblog
october 2008 by blech
A nice introduction to what you can do with CouchDB's web front end, Futon, especially when you throw Firebug into the mix.
firefox
couchdb
firebug
development
october 2008 by blech
app-engine-patch | Google Code
october 2008 by blech
Apparently the state of the art in Django-on-App Engine packages (as opposed to, say, google-app-engine-django or - horrors - following the article on the App Engine site itself).
python
django
google
appengine
framework
development
todo
october 2008 by blech
Web Inspector Redesign | Surfin’ Safari
october 2008 by blech
The Safari built-in equivalent to Firebug gets more tweaks. The editable style rules, metrics and properties look good, as does the ability to search by CSS selectors. Looking forward to an official Safari 4 release (or indeed a new ADC beta). (It'd be nice to see in Chrome too...)
safari
webkit
webinspector
apple
firebug
javascript
html
css
development
october 2008 by blech
Email upon exception with throttling | App Engine Recipe
september 2008 by blech
Once I figure out how to get email working (pesky 'has to be an admin' nonsense) I might add this. Mind you, I already get quite good visibility on errors. There's more useful stuff on the site, too.
google
appengine
python
development
email
september 2008 by blech
Decorator to get/set from memcache | App Engine Recipe
september 2008 by blech
Does what it says in the title. I'm not sure I'll use exactly this, mind.
google
appengine
python
memcached
development
via:ade
september 2008 by blech
Black and White Maps? | Modest Maps
september 2008 by blech
How to tweak the colour of map tiles when using Modest Maps as a library.
maps
modestmaps
development
september 2008 by blech
Who's On First | code.flickr.com
september 2008 by blech
Aaron writes up a new API method, flickr.places.placesForUser, which might be just the thing for me, and reiterates a bunch of other useful geolocation stuff.
flickr
geowanking
api
code
development
september 2008 by blech
Announcing dmigrations | Simon Willison's weblog
september 2008 by blech
"It addresses a common problem in Django development: if you change a model after creating the database tables for it with syncdb, how do you reflect those changes in your database tables without blowing away your existing data and starting again from scratch?" This is one approach.
django
python
database
development
orm
september 2008 by blech
Google Chrome Process Manager | John Resig
september 2008 by blech
"If this is true and there's a process manager which allows you to see how many resources are being consumed by a particular browser tab (including plugins!) this will be a 100% killer browser feature." Resig goes on to consider the implications for web developers.
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september 2008 by blech
Further WebKit vs Gecko Thoughts | blech.vox.com
september 2008 by blech
Speaking of defecting from Gecko, here's some thoughts I tried to get down in April on the subject. I'm not very happy with the writing but I stand by the idea- that WebKit will succeed in the long term because it's easier to embed and hack upon.
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link:self
september 2008 by blech
The Google Browser | The Truth about Mozilla
september 2008 by blech
An interesting post from back in February about Firefox developers hired into Google suddenly going dark. Now it looks like this can be confirmed as them moving to Chrome-on-Webkit. (Presumably it was going to originally be Chrome-on-Gecko.)
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via:bopuc
september 2008 by blech
comic book - Page 12 | Google on Google Chrome
september 2008 by blech
The comic book that Google is apparently using to introduce its browser (or is it a runtime environment?) spends a couple of pages, starting here, talking about why they chose WebKit. The whole thing seems to be worth reading, especially the bits about pervasive multithreading early on.
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september 2008 by blech
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