To sum up: the music industry treats its artists like it treats its customers: like shit. This is why I don't feel even a little twinge of remorse for pirating music. The sooner these asshat scumbags go out of business the better.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
This is a good analysis of different Rails stacks, but it's an even better case study in how to prepare and present meaningful benchmarks.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Mark totally nails it (as usual): this perfectly sums up the positive and negative aspects of Django's coupled design. I really couldn't have said it better myself.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Very simple local file sharing: `woof filename` servers the file over HTTP once, then terminates. It's a single script that can live in ~/bin. Coolness.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Really awesome Google Calendar-style interactive calendar rendered with jQuery. Drag & drop events, callbacks for everything, awesome.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Sean's report on the networking at PyCon 2009 is a great read -- funny, and packed full of information. I've constantly amazed at the quality of the wifi at PyCon -- conferences half PyCon's size usually make the network buckle. Folks running large conferences seem to have two choices when it comes to wifi: have it fail, or hire tummy.com. Simple.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Barnes & Noble's new reader looks pretty slick. Supports PDFs, and runs Android for added geek points. Watch out Amazon; this looks great.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Swiss Army knife of markup formats. I'm bookmarking this specifically because it can convert HTML into reST, which I've not seen before. That means it'll be incredibly useful for converting old docs into Sphinx.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss