Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Activity tagged “web”
Bookmarks
Web Application Exploits and Defenses
This should be required reading for web developers. Kudos to Google for putting this out.
How Alan Turing Finally Got a Posthumous Apology - O'Reilly Radar
A fantastic, inspiring story. When this “Internet” thing works, it's pretty awesome.
MySpace cyber-bullying conviction tentatively dismissed - Los Angeles Times
The cyber-bullying aspect of this case is utterly un-interesting to me. However, the ruling contains this tidbit: Judge Wu finds that violating a site's terms of service cannot be considered a crime. Big news for anyone doing data scraping!
Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk - Waxy.org
Use MT to get audio transcribed at 1/10th of the usual cost. I'm going to give this a shot with the video of my PyCon tutorial, with an eye towards getting all of the PyCon 2009 video transcribed. Wish me luck!
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
If you work in or around journalism, you need to read this essay. Every word. “Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke.”
rnk's django-media-bundler at master - GitHub
Looks like this is the best media bundling Django app out there. Bundles and minimizes JavaScript and CSS, and also combines images into sprites, generating the CSS rules for using those sprites.
It Died
Fucked Company for the Web 2.0 vintage.
The Cartoon Lounge: Online Only: The New Yorker
New Yorker vs XKCD. As you might expect, XKCD wins hands-down, mostly for the final cartoon.
djangopony - Magic that can't be removed.
I literally laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
I suspect that many years from now we'll refer to late 2008 as the start of “Browser Wars II”. That said, this looks pretty fucking sweet.
…if any? » Minimalism Revisited Theme
Nice looking minimal theme. However, like most WP themes, there's no license. Ugh.
Zookeepr | Main / HomePage browse
A conference management package developed by LCA.
Derek Powazek - 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments
Funny; we did at least 8/10 of these from day 1 of comments on the J-W. Didn't realize these rules were so revolutionary.
Ian Bicking: a blog :: Prism
“If you hate the web […] I don’t want anything to do with you.” Word.
Times to End Charges on Web Site - New York Times
The Times finally gets a clue. Welcome to the real Internet, folks.
Amazon.com Startup Project / Startup Challenge
Looks like Amazon's trying out the YC model. Interesting, if a bit limited in scope.
WeNeither: Positive Negative Dating
“Meet people you like through things you don't.” A cute twist on the dating site.
Leaflets: iPhone apps that grow on you.
BlueFlavor's cool new set of iPhone web apps. I've been using the semi-private beta since I got my phone (thanks, Jeff!) and it rocks. GO check it out.
Now with Django powered goodness!
Antonio on Django/Tabblo: “the HP folks doing diligence on us started by asking why we had not chosen Ruby on Rails and came out the other end incredibly impressed with our Django choice.”
Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues (PDF)
Loads of information about the tech behind Wikipedia. I've become convinced that the only sane way to design scalable systems is by studying the trials and tribulations of others.
Ganglia Monitoring System
“Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids.”
Wednesday: Introducing http:BL | Five Days of Announcements | Project Honey Pot
This could be a game-changer for comment spam prevention.
Varnish - Trac
“Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator.”
Ask Reddit: How did you end up using Django? (reddit.com)
A good collection of stories from Django users. Gives me the warm fuzzies :)
Welcome to Solr
Lucene as a search server. XML/JSON APIs, web administration interface. Java servlets (yech), but probably a lot easier than PyLucene.
Joyeur: The 10% “rule” for infrastructure costs
If he's right, I think we're spending far to little on Ellington.
Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen
Nifty font utility for browsers
The One That's Not About Music: The Daily Dbase | texasgigs.com
Mike's spin on database journalism. It's a great look at the same stuff Adrian's been talking about the the point of view of a (mostly) non-geek. Why can't all our clients be this cool?
nabu: a Publishing System using Text Files
Nabu is a simple framework that extracts chunks of various types of information from documents written in simple text files (written with reStructuredText conventions) and that stores this information (including the document) in a remote database for late
Ellington | The online publishing platform for newspapers.
Our publishing system — built on Django — grows a web site of its very own.
Yahoo! Answers - Home
Ask MeFi is in trouble…
Red Had Content Accellerator Manuals
We got linked to by Drudge today and didn't handle it very well. This should help.
Entries
To hell with web standards
Secret W3C member lists? Anonymous holds? What is this, the Senate?
Snakes on the Web
The history and future of Python web development. A talk given at PyCon Argentina and PyCon Brazil, 2009.
Descriptivists and Prescriptivists
What happened to the web standards descriptivists?
Of the Web
A general impression of how CouchDB fits into the big picture of the Web.