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Dev8D 2010 Review
This week I have been at Dev8D, a JISC-funded BarCamp-like conference which included a whole heap of three minute lightning talks from other JISC. Three minute talks are a wonderful format, long enough to hint at detail and short enough … Continue reading
Django Dojo Eclipse Subversion Coda MacOS X
As web development frameworks go, Django really is fab. I can now run Django in a number of ways… all of which have their own advantages. Development mode: The cool thing about running in development mode is that whenever you … Continue reading
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Nevermind the players, it’s the pitch that’s expensive
A friend, honestly, who shall remain nameless, told me recently that his web agency were onto the shortlist for a largish project… a shortlist of seven! Down from a staggering 14! Now, of course it makes sense when buying in … Continue reading
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Python, SQL, Django shell
If you are anything like me, you poor fool, then although you love the database abstraction layer in django there are times when noodling around in python you’d like to quickly poke a bit of sql at your django created … Continue reading
The Antidesktop
The Antidesktop is a site that is gathering non-GUIs together, in the name of usability in the war on WIMPs (Quicksilver doesn’t get a mention, does that count?). Jeff Raskin would approve. Don’t expect any screenshots. That misses the point.
Text Clouds: A New Form of Tag Cloud?
If the question is Text Clouds: A New Form of Tag Cloud? The answer is… they are exactly the same dummy! except of less value because lots of the words haven’t been carefully selected by humans, so you end with … Continue reading
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If XML is so popular…
…and if if it an open standard… how come every time I come to work with it… I can only find HUGE proprietary apps on (macos x) I get an icky feeling in my stomach Even the eclipse plugin kinda … Continue reading
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What are mashups for anyway?
According to uninnovate in The Problem with Web Services, Google has suspended it’s Web Search API, which seems a bit shocking. Shocking in the sense of the fact that there’s a feeling in the air that service-oriented architectures, mashups and … Continue reading
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Pipes and Widgets
I don’t know if I’m late to the party on this one, but I hadn’t noticed Yahoo Pipes, which at first glance seems stunningly fantastic. I want to add my own sources though… For those of us that remember Rhubard … Continue reading
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Open source rocks/sucks! Deal with it :-)
I think Jason misses a few points in Why Programmers Don’t Trust Other Programmers (via dzone) Code is a Verb not a Noun: Reinventing the Wheel is a Good Thing… especially if you are adding tyres. Reinventing wheels is about … Continue reading
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Web 2.0 how-to design style guide
Web 2.0 how-to design style guide, lots of stuff to read… ..and also… lots of stuff to watch… about Web2.0 and Javascript…
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How to get from “fishes” to “fish” in python
Thank goodness, calls to make words CamelCase and singularize plurals in Inflector.py. Thank you, thank you… searching for something to do this has been very, very difficult. I’ve also been struggling with sorting dictionaries which to me should be the … Continue reading
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