playing with appengine

jetlagged in Prague, looking for cool coffee shops w/ wifi

Great interview with Greg Stein

All thumbs

Fun in the snow

Wrap-up of Django sprint at Exoweb offices

Django sprint at Exoweb offices

Jonathan Coulton goodies

Even simpler way to ssh through a...

In his article Jacky explained how to easily drill holes through to ports on machines behind a...

The day the podcasts died

Richard noticed that Feedburner has been blocked in China. This is terrible news as a lot of blogs...

Public wifi - how could it get so bad?

Warning: This is a rant. With wifi came the promise of being online (almost) anywhere, but due to...

Python 3000 alpha 1 released!

Guido just announced it Time to experiment. (via Bjørn Stabell 白熊)

Blueprint, a CSS framework

Tired of fighting with browsers on CSS issues regarding layouts, styling of buttons, or generating...

Finding Python packages

Although easy_install might be sufficient to install a Python package (aka egg) onto your system, it...

Slides from “Django Master Class” at...

At OSCON 2007 Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Willison, and Jeremy Dunck held a Django Master Class. Jacob...

RESTful Web Services, a book review

After hearing about it on an ITC podcast (also mentioned in previous post) I ordered the “RESTful...

Painful…

My good friend Glyn sent me this link: Although I’m guilty of my share of...

Do we really need separate fields for...

This post shows how name components, which one is sorted on, and which one is normally used, vary...

“Zope is back” movie trailer

Martijn Faassen (whom apparently started EuroPython years back) did the funniest lightning talk at...

Walking around in Vilnius - 2 (via Photos from beorn)

Walking around in Vilnius - 1 (via Photos from beorn)

Walking around in Vilnius - 5 (via Photos from beorn)

Walking around in Vilnius - 4 (via Photos from beorn)

Pudong Airport (via Photos from beorn)

French concession - 1 (via Photos from beorn)

French concession - 4 (via Photos from beorn)

French concession - 3 (via Photos from beorn)

French concession - 2 (via Photos from beorn)

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 1 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 24 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 23 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 22 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 21 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 20 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 19 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 18 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 17 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 16 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 15 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 14 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 13 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 12 (via Photos from...

Shanghai Old Town - Yuyang Gardens - 11 (via Photos from...

At grill restaurant in Xin Tian Di (via Photos from beorn)

The Maglev - 431 kmh - 3 (via Photos from beorn)

The Maglev - 431 kmh - 2 (via Photos from beorn)

The Maglev - 431 kmh - 1 (via Photos from beorn)

Arlo’s agile experiment summary (part 5)

This is of course pretty controversial stuff, and in all honesty, Arlo has his own data and the...

Team-owned tasks (part 4)

The final practice Arlo described was team-owned tasks. Avoiding assigning tasks to people is very...

Least qualified implementor (part 3)

Another question they had was: Who should do which tasks? Normally the most qualified implementor...

Promiscuous pairing (part 2)

Arlo’s team wanted to be extreme, and they started with one of the XP practices, pair programming. ...

The agile experiment (part 1)

The most interesting and eye-opening talks at EuroPython 2007 were probably Arlo Belshee’s talks on...

Vilnius - 6 (via Photos from beorn)

Vilnius - 5 (via Photos from beorn)

Vilnius - 4 (via Photos from beorn)

Vilnius - 3 (via Photos from beorn)

Vilnius - 2 (via Photos from beorn)

DSC00197 (via Photos from beorn)

Vilnius - 7 - Jacky (via Photos from beorn)

Vilnius - 1 (via Photos from beorn)

The Gang of 4 going for dinner (via Photos from beorn)

Jacky and Ken relaxing outside conference area (via Photos...

One of the lightning talks (via Photos from beorn)

Vilnius at night - 1 (via Photos from beorn)

Vilnius at night - 2 (via Photos from beorn)

Vilnius at night - 3 (via Photos from beorn)

Around Hotel Regal, Vilnius - 1 (via Photos from beorn)

Around Hotel Regal, Vilnius - 2 (via Photos from beorn)

Around Hotel Regal, Vilnius - 3 (via Photos from beorn)

View from Skybar at Hotel Regal, Vilnius - 1 (via Photos...

View from Skybar at Hotel Regal, Vilnius - 2 (via Photos...

View from Skybar at Hotel Regal, Vilnius - 3 (via Photos...

Tux Droid: Can be bought from tuxisalive.com (via Photos...

EuroPython open space - 1 (via Photos from beorn)

EuroPython open space - 2 (via Photos from beorn)

Jacky all set up (via Photos from beorn)

EuroPython - 1 (via Photos from beorn)

EuroPython - 2 (via Photos from beorn)

View from Hotel Regal room - 1 (via Photos from beorn)

View from Hotel Regal room - 2 (via Photos from beorn)

Web application scalability

Via Simon Willison’s blog, SlideShare has an impressive list of slideshows about web application...

Help make the world more free

Enough is enough. Say no to Microsoft OOXML becoming an ISO standard by signing this petition. ODF...

REST links

Some cool REST links I’ve come across lately: Implementing the DayTrader example application...

Mac OS X AddressBook integration with...

I have good luck with this trick on several Sony Ericssons (including W800i and now...

The anti-DRM revolution

In early May 2007 something amazing happened. Hollywood’s most guarded secret, the key to decrypt...

ITC business podcasts

I’m a slow reader, but I’ve found a way to catch-up: podcasts. Of the podcasts I’ve listened to...

OK Go - Here it goes again

This is just awesomely creative: (via Bjørn Stabell 白熊)

Google reader mobile

I never really got into web browsing on the phone, especially not without a qwerty keyboard; it’s...

GMail POP password problems

GMail started rejecting my password when I accessed it through POP from Mail.app. This isn’t the...

Facebook’s cool cross-platform search...

A while ago I discovered that by setting an HTML INPUT tag’s type attribute to search, Safari on OS...

Crooked Street - 2 (via beorn’s Photos)

Cable Car on Hyde St - 1 (via beorn’s Photos)

Hyde St 1773: Outside Matt’s home in SF (via...

DSC00029.JPG (via beorn’s Photos)

Eating middle-eastern food - 1 (via beorn’s Photos)

San Francisco Sunset - 11 (via beorn’s Photos)

San Francisco Sunset - 10 (via beorn’s Photos)

San Francisco Sunset - 4 (via beorn’s Photos)

San Francisco Sunset - 1 (via beorn’s Photos)

Modesto Almond Trees - 16 (via beorn’s Photos)

Modesto Almond Trees - 15 (Christie) (via beorn’s...

Modesto Almond Trees - 12 (Ivana 1) (via beorn’s...

Modesto Almond Trees - 5 (via beorn’s Photos)

Modesto Almond Trees - 4 (via beorn’s Photos)

Modesto Almond Trees - 1 (via beorn’s Photos)

ABC CEO and Ivana (via beorn’s Photos)

Ivana and Christie (via beorn’s Photos)

San Francisco - 50 (via beorn’s Photos)

San Francisco - 45 (via beorn’s Photos)

San Francisco - 44 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 14 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 13 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 12 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 11 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 10 - Sari Ivana (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 9 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 8 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 7: Watch out for the monkeys (via...

The Taj Mahal - 6 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 5 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 4 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 3 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 2 (via beorn’s Photos)

The Taj Mahal - 1 (via beorn’s Photos)

Relaxing at the Oberon: We had an afternoon at the Oberon....

Built the same way the Taj Mahal is, with embedded...

Agra - Red Fort - 11 (via beorn’s Photos)

Agra - Red Fort - 10 - Like the Maharaja (via beorn’s...

Agra - Red Fort - 8 - View of Taj Mahal (via beorn’s...

Agra - Red Fort - 7 (via beorn’s Photos)

Agra - Red Fort - 6 (via beorn’s Photos)

Agra - Red Fort - 5 (via beorn’s Photos)

The new second floor, just after putting in the floorboards...

Emergency Entrance: Seen in hallway leading up to new Wanda...

Looking at the 2nd floor just after we tore down the wall...

Looking out over the new admin area.: There will be a bar...

New relaxation area (via beorn’s Photos)

Showing MSN Display Names in Adium

Getting MSN display names to appear in Adium wasn’t as easy as I’d first thought. Here’s the recipe...

Freeing up hard disk space on OS X

Stuff expands to fill the space available for it, or so the saying go. I needed more hard disk...

Our colorful future

Everyone in Exoweb has seen this already, but for all you others out there, I thought I’d share ...

Gone fishing

I caught this very interesting announcement on the Django Developer group: I like Django, and my...

Google Summer of Cod: Google branching out into seafood?...

“The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the...”
— Poem inscribed on sundail at...

Exoweb Planet

“Can I help you?” for websites

Customer service is still in its infancy on the web. Here are some ideas how to make it better. A...

Internet DNS Spammer: MSN search: When you try to access a...

Internet DNS Spammer: MSN search: When you try to access a...