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Kottke Kottke

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:53:48 +0000

I really like Jason Kottke's site. I read his RSS feed religiously. I do not like his "guest authors". If I wanted to read them, I would subscribe to their, crappier, blogs. I'd much prefer that when Jason took a vacation, his blog did too. With Yahoo Pipes, this wish can become a reality. Kottke Kottke (All Kottke all the time): http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=5n8FQOrC3BGvfKzk6UjTQA&_render=rss There's some kind of escaping issue, but isn't there always?

Haskell News

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:36:35 +0000

I've started a site on the programming language Haskell. The site is called Monad and it's pulled in a lot of useful news and information so far.

Scriptych

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:13:10 +0000

Scriptych, the JavaScript News site that I launched this fall, now has categories for each of the major JavaScript frameworks. Check out the latest news on: Dojo, ExtJS, jQuery, YUI, and Prototype.

Greasemonkey - Hide YouTube comments

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:45:40 +0000

I wrote a Greasemonkey script to hide/show YouTube comments.

Javascript News Site

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:45:08 +0000

I'm editing a site on JavaScript news. Check it out.

Multiple Databases in a Single Django Project

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:25:18 +0000

Django doesn't yet support splitting your project or models across multiple databases. To scale up your database you use a solution where the application code still believes that it's connecting to a single database server and database, but you're actually connecting to a meta-db-server and db (i.e., a federated database). What I describe below is a way to get around that for a specific case where you can dispatch to a different db for different requests. The first way is to segregate your requests for different DBs into their own Python sub-interpreter in mod_python or mod_wsgi. If you configure each of requests to run in their own Python sub-interpreter (using mod_python or mod_wsgi), you'll be loading your ...

Teamocil

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:13:41 +0000

There's no i in Teamocil, At least not where you think. So together let's make a choice, And for once we'll be in sync. Teamoci-il, I never thought I knew you well, Teamoci-i-il, Now I think we really gel. Tea-mo-cil. Teamocil is no longer available. Please try either Groupug, Bondat or consult your own Wellness Guide. Teamocil.

Jakob Nielsen’s Worst Advice

Fri, 19 May 2006 02:40:25 +0000

Jakob Nielsen writes about web usability. He's often got some great insights backed up by some good research or just common sense. However, he wrote about design mistakes in building blogs a few months back and I'm still reeling from the effects of his second "mistake": 2. No Author Photo Even weblogs that provide author bios often omit the author photo. A photo is important for two reasons: It offers a more personable impression of the author. You enhance your credibility by the simple fact that you're not trying to hide. Also, users relate more easily to somebody they've seen. It connects the virtual and physical worlds. People who've met you before will recognize your photo, and people who've read your site ...

Programmer Job Listings by Domain Knowledge not Language

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:52:30 +0000

It doesn't seem quite right to me that programming jobs are always advertised by language instead of domain knowledge. I'd much rather have a programmer on our team who understood the Web domain (REST, HTTP, content databases, client/server, and on and on) than one whose personal language preference happened to match up with our office. Fact is, we could be wrong about the language we've chosen, the database we've chosen, the middlewhere we use, the APIs we've created, etc. and not see the forest for the trees. I'd gladly take someone who could come in and see the simplest solutions to these (someone who knows how to cut with the grain) even if it meant some short-term ...

Getting Selected Text from a Textarea Through Javascript in Safari

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:22:16 +0000

Is not possible. Will update this post if shown to be incorrect. How it's done in IE: document.selection.createRange().text will contain your selected text. How it's done in Mozilla/Firefox: //Get the textbox through the DOM var txta = document.getElementById('txt'); //this will contain your selected text txta.value.substring(txta.selectionStart, txta.selectionEnd)); How it's done in Safari: Call Dave Hyatt and ask him what's selected.