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Index of Drive-By Truckers shows. - Tom

Interviewing by asking about behavior, not quizzes. Has a link to more resources - Tom

"If you're new to NoSQL, you'll want to do a bit of background reading. I'll keep this quick and limit my recommendations to just the essentials" - Tom

"Djapian provides simple way to apply full-text search to your exist applications and new ones. It has django-inspired style of API with flexible customizations of indexation and searching." Provides ways to search models, weight fields, etc. - Tom

Debugging DNS - Tom

Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google. - Tom

Script to help parse command-line arguments in PHP - Tom

This page describes how to set up the Postfix mail server to relay all mail to an upstream SMTP server, using an authenticated login. These instructions apply to Postfix v2.2 (and newer); earlier Postfix versions have similar functionality, but some of the config options (especially in the outbound SMTP TLS settings) may have different names. - Tom

Using Kill-a-Watt and WolframAlpha to look at energy usage - Tom

Great post on what to get out of a job interview as a job interviewee with questions to ask - Tom

List of different PHP PDF libraries - Tom

Index of PDFLib functions, much easier to work with than the actual manual - Tom

White bread recipe. Wheat bread and other ideas in the comments - Tom

Just like CSS for styling web pages, GSS is a specification for designing maps. Adapted for dynamic data sources, GSS can define changing geographic elements, display multiple datasets, and even respond to contextual tags like "condition:poor". Click here to view styles for the above map. Vector web mapping Instead of sending pre-rendered tiles for every zoom level, Cartagen draws maps dynamically on the client side. This means maps can move, adapt, and redraw, and can include as many layers of data as needed. Vector mapping is done in native HTML 5, which runs on the iPhone and the Android platforms, and uses less bandwidth overall. - Tom

Notes on browning butter in article and in comments - Tom

Nice set of side-by-side tests of VPS hosting options. Linode is the winner. - Tom

How to move domain email to Google Mail - Tom

Good lightweight tutorial on how to use SimpleXML. Nice reference for something I don't know very well. - Tom

Interesting post on parsing people annd relationships out of mail. While it's mail-focused, it's got a lot of leads on how to do these things properly from someone who seems to know what he's talking about, as opposed to me. - Tom

Wordpress Plugin for OpenCalais. Generate RDF tagging auto-magically. - Tom

Reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities. Features * Roll back to any point in a model's history - an unlimited undo facility! * Recover deleted models - never lose data again! * Admin integration for maximum usability. * Group related changes into revisions that can be rolled back in a single transaction. * Automatically save a new version whenever your model changes using Django's flexible signalling framework. * Automate your revision management with easy-to-use middleware. Reversion can be easily added to your existing Django project with an absolute minimum of code changes - Tom

Reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities. Features * Roll back to any point in a model's history - an unlimited undo facility! * Recover deleted models - never lose data again! * Admin integration for maximum usability. * Group related changes into revisions that can be rolled back in a single transaction. *... more... - Tom

Add workflows to Django apps - Tom

Fixing PHP/ PDF integration on Windows. Basically need to upgrade to PDFLib 6 or 7 - Tom

Some ways of cleaning up Django custom tags so you don't have to write all the boilerplate crap. - Tom

Django app that creates histograms in the admin - Tom

twill is a simple language that allows users to browse the Web from a command-line interface. With twill, you can navigate through Web sites that use forms, cookies, and most standard Web features. twill supports automated Web testing and has a simple Python interface. Check out the examples! twill is open source and written in Python. - Tom

"Django's authentication system is somewhat of a black-box, and rightly so - an authentication system needs to be iron-clad. Several times, however, I have wanted to insert additional functionality when a user successfully logs in to a site. I see two ways of accomplishing this: 1. Write a custom AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND 2. Use signals" - Tom

dynaTrace Ajax works by sticking low-level instrumentation into Internet Explorer when it launches, capturing any activity that occurs - and I mean virtually any activity that you can imagine. I noticed very little slow down when running the browser in tracing mode (although it's sometimes hard to tell, considering the browser). However all of the tracing is recorded and saved for later, making it easy to record sessions for later analysis. - Tom

Example of jquery animation rotating elements behind each other like a carousel - Tom

Cherokee and Django with uWSGI and virtualenv - Tom