Yes the web is awash with news of Internet Explorer 8. We’re like lemmings that way, it seems like every blog I read (116 says Google Reader) has some news of IE 8. Given the mad dash to the finish line for South by Southwest, I haven’t bothered to download or play yet, but I [...]
“It should be pretty simple,” David M naïvely stated, “just look in the Agent_ProductLines table, right?”
“Uhhh,” David's coworker, James, replied in a slightly condescending tone, “no.” David was starting to get used to such responses. Nothing in his new job was “pretty simple” to simple to do.
“Okaaay… so how exactly can we tell [...]
Mike Linksvayer, the CTO of Creative Commons, runs the numbers of Nine Inch Nails’s Creative Commons download experiment and discovers that it only took the band two days to exceed the typical net from a massive-selling traditional CD release. The band sold $750,000 worth of “limited edition deluxe sets,” plus an unknowable further sum from [...]
YouTube has been testing higher bitrate encodings of it videos, which you can see if you add a &fmt=8 or &fmt=16 to the video url. Historically, all videos have been delivered to the lowest common denominator: sorenson encoded 320×240. By adding &fmt=6 to the URL, the video is served up in 448×336 resolution and [...]
Designer Stephane de Sousa’s produced a prototype “minimalist bedside table” with “a waterproof surface, bookshelf, and a simple way to remember where you left off on last night’s reading.” It’s the last one that really gets me here.
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straight stolen from Boing Boing
Ninjapenguin - Kohana setup screencast
(tags: kohana framework php web)
A pilot tries to land this Airbus A320 in 150mph crosswind while the passengers puke and pray.
straight stolen from YesButNoButYes
Amazon’s launched a Linux-based downloader for its DRM-free MP3 music store — fantastic news! Now if they’d only change the terms-of-service for the store to something sensible like “Don’t do anything illegal with this music.”
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(Thanks, Pete!)
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Captcha for Django Version 1.1
(tags: development django python web captcha)
Changeset 3811 - Django Code - Trac
manage.py setting to server admin media
(tags: django python webdev programming)