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Clever trick to have growl notify you if your local working copy is out of sync with you SVN repository. - Seth Gottlieb

Not sure I wanted to run Django on Jython but... just in case. - Seth Gottlieb

very helpful guide to keyboard shortcuts in firefox. I was looking for switching tabs (cmd+[tab number]) - Seth Gottlieb

Really nice presentation on what to look for in the future of WCM. I really like Day Software's vision for the web and hope it comes true. However, their predictions are usually ambitious and forward thinking. I would adjust time expectations to 2011 or 2012. - Seth Gottlieb

This is an interesting idea of withholding commit access from new hires until they have proven themselves and gotten comfortable with the code. Until that point, they would create patches to be reviewed by an experienced developer. - Seth Gottlieb

Pointing mod_wsgi to a virtual environment. - Seth Gottlieb

Interesting article explaining the observation that proprietary software tends to get worse with each release and open source tends to get better. I agree that many of the commercial software applications that I use seem to have "peaked" several versions ago. I also agree that an open source committer team is more empowered than a commercial software architect to push features/enhancements out of scope. Jacob asserts that no commercial software company could resist pressure from IBM to support DB2 but Django does. However, I wonder if this trend is just a matter of software maturity and time. Most of the commercial software applications are older than the open source ones and have time to "jump the shark" with features that don't belong. Some FOSS programs will, no doubt, be tempted to add bad features after the good features have been added. The better projects will resist. Examples include Apache HTTPD and Struts. These projects started over when they were done. - Seth Gottlieb

I agree with that article is that opensource big power is that decision process. Remember the decision making process in tips ... ;) - Nicolas Dufour

any chance we could convince them to open source tips? - Seth Gottlieb

Introduction to the Haystack App. Looks interesting. API is similar to Django querysets. Pluggable search engine backends. Current choices consist of Solr, Whoosh, and Xapian. - Seth Gottlieb

Interesting article explaining the observation that proprietary software tends to get worse with each release and open source tends to get better. I agree that many of the commercial software applications that I use seem to have "peaked" several versions ago. I also agree that an open source committer team is more empowered than a commercial software architect to push features/enhancements out of scope. Jacob asserts that no commercial software company could resist pressure from IBM to support DB2 but Django does. However, I wonder if this trend is just a matter of software maturity and time. Most of the commercial software applications are older than the open source ones and have time to "jump the shark" with features that don't belong. Some FOSS programs will, no doubt, be tempted to add bad features after the good features have been added. The better projects will resist. Examples include Apache HTTPD and Struts. These projects started over when they were done. - Seth Gottlieb

"My wife uses Facebook the same way that yours uses Facebook: to connect with friends. Why is that wrong? Not everyone wants to be a internet celebrity egomaniac. People who want to stay private represent a market that is big for Facebook. Personally, I use both. Facebook for my IRL friend social network, Twitter, my blog, LinkedIn, for my professional, public social network. That is working pretty well for me. I think trying to be the dominant Internet destination is Web 1.0 thinking. The beauty of the Internet is how nicely different resources can be assembled to create enriching experiences. Its not all about being on Google. I think our wives like Facebook precisely because it is not on Google." - Seth Gottlieb

Nice presentation on building re-usable applications - Seth Gottlieb

Quick way to get response headers from a URL. - Seth Gottlieb

WELCOME TO KAZAA!! PLEASE DOWNLOAD THIS PATCH! - Steven Perez

:D Wheeee! - Josh Haley

Dude, you're sick. That's a compliment coming from me! - Mark Wilson

it wouldn't matter as long as it "stays" under the skirt but we all know how adventurous it is! - vijay

"Is it all the toxic metals in fly ash that make it so strong?" - Seth Gottlieb

Describes how you could call the OSS war over. - Seth Gottlieb

Nice tools for cleaning up Python code. Good practice to clean up code before getting into debugging. - Seth Gottlieb

a good list of re-usable applications and what they do. - Seth Gottlieb

Tornado is an open source project based on the framework underlying FriendFeed. - Seth Gottlieb

create an "app" project, create a templates folder, create context processor, create a middleware file. - Seth Gottlieb

Nice interview about Day's investment and relationship with open source. - Seth Gottlieb

Funny photo cards. - Seth Gottlieb

Newspaper are making $709 (or even $603) per subscriber versus $46 per web customer. And you wonder why newspapers still like their print products. - Seth Gottlieb

Integrating Drupal with third party services (like OpenAmplify) that enrich content. - Seth Gottlieb

Looks like a playground slide for books. - Seth Gottlieb from iPhone

I always have difficulty finding this article. The basic idea is that a small team of great software developers can accomplish more than a very large team of mediocre software developers. - Seth Gottlieb

Joel talks about getting the top 1% of the candidate pool. Hint: this doesn't mean taking the best of 100 desperate responses to a job listing. Quote: "A lot of companies think they're hiring the top 1 percent because they get 100 resumés for every open position. They're kidding themselves. When you fill an opening, think about what happens to the 99 people you turn away. They don't give up and go into plumbing. They apply for another job. There's a floating population of applicants in your industry that apply for nearly every opening posted online, even though many of them are qualified for virtually none of these positions." - Seth Gottlieb

Text editor that allows two geographically distributed programmers to pair program. This looks very cool and I am really looking forward to an opportunity to try it out. Note: Mac only. - Seth Gottlieb

Nice collection of tips to address Django limitations outlined in "Dropping Django" (http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2009...). My take-away is that because Django tries to adhere to a "no magic" Python design, it extensible in regular Pythonic ways.. - Seth Gottlieb

Tutorial on using the Blueprint theme and CSS Framework. - Seth Gottlieb