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August 2006

232 bookmarks saved in August 2006

Rubber Ducking

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking=
"Place a rubber duck on your monitor and describe your problems to it. There's something magical about stating your problems aloud that makes the solution more clear."
#programming
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Shorty

http://get-shorty.com
"Shorty is a simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. You install Shorty on your server, so the links you create with it never go away. "
#php #shorty #webdev
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symfony Web PHP framework

http://www.symfony-project.com
"Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure."
#for:jm3 #php #php5 #symfony #webdev
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MySpace parser

http://www.throwingbeans.org/myspace_parser.html
I was building something like this at my last job. "Here's a MySpace parser. Usage is straightforward; the constructor takes a MySpace URL or numerical ID, and profile, friend and comment details are exposed as attributes"
#myspace #python
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Sunshine

http://www.sunshinedna.com/film
Sounds like a twist on the killer asteroid plot. "The Sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. "
#entertainment #movies #scifi #sunshine
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Chelsea Peretti: Level 3 Coffee Shop Prank

http://chelseaperetti.blogspot.com/2006/08/level-3-coffee-shop-prank.html
"There's a fine line between pranks, magic, and murder. It is a line I cannot distinguish, almost as if I am colorblind and it is written in a certain color I cannot detect. Sorry! Sorry for whatever I did and for however many dead lie behind me."
#odd #pranks
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The Guns Of August

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080901514.html
"Two full-blown crises, in Lebanon and Iraq, are merging into a single emergency. A chain reaction could spread quickly almost anywhere between Cairo and Bombay."
#bush #politics #war
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Automattic ‽ WordPress Widgets

http://automattic.com/code/widgets
"Widgets have come to WordPress! By installing the Widgets plugin by Automattic (download zip or svn) and using a widget-ready theme, you can bring the popular customization feature from WordPress.com to your very own, hosted WordPress installation."
#metablogging #php #wordpress
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Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status

http://www.xfront.com/rescuing-xslt.html
"With just these few commands (an admittedly small subset of XSLT) and a strong background in HTML (DHTML and JavaScript included), I believe web developers could meet the majority of their presentation needs."
#webdev #xml #xslt
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Alan Moore leaves behind his Extraordinary Gentlemen to dally with Lost Girls | Alan Moore | Interviews | SCI FI Weekly

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw13282.html
Ew. Creepy porn fanfic. "During a recent telephone interview from his home in Northampton, England, Moore spent some time talking about puritanical attitudes, Victorian and Edwardian erotica and Lost Girls, which will be published by Top Shelf Comics ($
#alanmoore #alice #creepy #dorothy #fanfic #oz #porn #wendy
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Markup - Trac

http://markup.edgewall.org
"Markup is a Python library that provides an integrated set of components for parsing, generating, and processing HTML or XML content in a uniform manner. The major feature is a template language, which is heavily inspired by Kid."
#kid #markup #python #webdev
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json-xslt: XML 2 JSON

https://json-xslt.codebase.ebay.com
"An XSLT 1.0 stylesheet that can transform any XML file into JSON. You can use the stylesheet along with a server-based XSLT transform tool, such as eBay's XSLT server that works with the REST API. You could also use it with client-side tool, if you are i
#ebay #json #via:whump #webdev #xslt
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my del boogs

http://bug.corp.yahoo.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ACCEPTED&bug_status=REOPENED&ctype=rss&email1=lorchard@yahoo-inc.com&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&query_format=advanced&remaction=
#firefox:rss #imported
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JotBlog ‽ De stageloper

http://blog.jot.com/archives/2006/07/31/de-stageloper
"We are lucky to have Mark Wubben, in from the Netherlands, interning here at Jot for the summer. His first project is going to be finishing up an internal project with the super secret code name “Jotliner.”"
#jot #outliners #wiki
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