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Subway Web framework [python] : The Subway project aims to create a Web development stack combining the ideas and spirit of Ruby on Rails with a comprehensive suite of prewritten Python web libraries and tools.
Subway builds extensively upon the solid foundation of CherryPy + ships with the fastest Python WSGI (web) server. CherryPy has been gaining popularity - a mature, stable at version 2.1; very clean and elegant framework to develop web applications in
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zopewiki.org Internationalization - links and intros on i18n L10n esp in zope / plone
good but slightly out of date links list resource on basics and tech / frameworks
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zopewiki.org Internationalization - links and intros on i18n L10n esp in zope / plone
good but slightly out of date links list resource on basics and tech / frameworks
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Flickr: PictureAustralia - FlickR and the National Library of Australia are embarking on an exciting initiative to offer individuals the opportunity to include their images of contemporary Australia in the PictureAustralia service through FlickR.
By adding images to this group, individuals are able to, for the first time, contribute to and enrich a valuable collection which has so far been the sole domain of large collecting institutions. This is done by collecting the metadata and thumbnails from
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The Del.icio.us Bookmarklet I’d Like to See | Contentious : Wouldn’t it be great if, when I hit that Del.icio.us bookmarklet, I got a menu of my current accounts on that service. I’d select one, and then bookmark the page as I normally do.
[his use-pattern includes >>1 del accts] update notes that with Del.icio.us extension for Firefox,managing posts to multiple Del.icio.us accounts is no longer a hassle - but I find the firefox extension tagging interface v awkward compared to del's bmlet
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OUseful Info: Peer Review 2.0 [ modest ruminative proposal for hybridising blogosphere-cred-like with peer-review-like metrics ]
if blog posts do have a place at the bottom of the academic publication chain, then it would perhaps be interesting if the academic publishers started exploring ways of introducing academic quality measures such as some form of peer review. The payoff
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Englaze Archive - archive and photoplay DVD for Flickr
Englaze Archive will create a data DVD backup of your original flickr photos, the original uploaded sizes, and preserve titles and captions (not comments). It costs US$29.95 for the first 1000 photos and then $4 for each next set of 1000 (I am now at only
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Learning Objects: RIP or 1.0? at D’Arcy Norman Dot Net
David Wiley just wrote an excellent post about the "death" of learning objects. He's right on the mark, emphasizing the learning part of the buzzword. I just wanted to add some thoughts from the perspective of a "learning objects" software developer
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RIP-ping on Learning Objects | iterating toward openness
There have been lots of articles around the blogosphere of late ringing the death bell for learning objects. I've been doing a lot of thinking about these and come to the troubling conclusion that I don't think I care if learning objects are dead or not.
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TailRank - TailRank is a social news recommendation system and collaborative filter. We spider the blogosphere finding hot news so you don't have to!
Unlike other global systems we provide custom ranking specific to the user. We're able to do this by monitoring the feeds in which you're interested
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I Wish Blog Comments Were Easier to Follow | AMY GAHRAN: The Right Conversation [ astute take on issues in distributed discussions ]
I see three basic problems with following conversations that occur in blog comments: Finding it; where's it spreading; staying connected. [ looks at partial solutions like comments and search feeds and piggybacking del. to monitor your own comments ]
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Over the Shoulder Learning: Supporting Brief Informal Learning. Michael B. Twidale; Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Vol. 14, No. 6. (December 2005), pp. 505-547.
reviews work on informal technical help giving between colleagues. It concentrates on the process of how colleagues help each other to use a computer application to achieve a specific work task, contrasting this with the focus of much prior work on surrou
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google earth for Mac 0S-X (10.4 +) released | Official Google Blog: Google Earth in a Mac world (PC too)
we have a brand new member of the family -- Google Earth for Macintosh. We're happy to finally have some good news for the, ahem, vocal Mac enthusiasts we've been hearing from. Let's just say that we have gotten more than a few "requests" for a Mac versio
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dom scripting to use Safari search widget with extra-graceful degradation | Re-re-re-re-re-re-design : Chaotic intransient prose bursts (archives/001609)
hmmm - safari allows slick search widget; this post shows one way to use it and degrade well in other browsers. search widget that is supported by Safari mimics the standard OSX search field that was introduced in 10.3. It has a popup menu with recent se
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xoxo - Microformats : XOXO is a simple, open outline format written in standard XHTML and suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. XOXO is one of several microformat open standards
based on the module framework and modules defined in Modularization of XHTML XHTMLMOD. The purpose of the XOXO document type is to serve as the basis for XHTML friendly outlines for processing by XML engines and for easy interactive rendering by browsers
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attentionxml : Attention.XML is an open standard, built on open source (see XOXOSampleCode) that helps you keep track of what you've read, what you're spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to.
Attention.XML is designed to to solve these problems and enable a whole new class of blog and feed related applications: How many sources of information must you keep up with? Tired of clicking the same link from a dozen different blogs? RSS readers colle
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Microformats Primer | Digital Web Magazine; By Garrett Dimon, November 14, 2005
Microformats are about using the standards we all know and love to convey as much semantic meaning as possible. Think of them as semantic best practices. They use current XHTML tags such as address, cite, and blockquote and attributes such as rel, rev, an
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Don’t Invent XML Languages | Tim Bray, ongoing; you can invent your own XML languages to help you solve your own problems. But I’ve become convinced, over the last couple of years, that you shouldn’t. Unless you really have to. This piece explains w
suggests alt starting points, eg XHTML + Microformats · If you’re delivering information to humans over the Web, even if you don’t think of it as “Web Pages”, it’s almost certainly insane not to use XHTML. Yes, XHTML is semantically weak and do
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Crash course in learning theory | Creating Passionate Users: a crash course on some of our favorite learning techniques gleaned from cognitive science, learning theory, neuroscience, psychology, and entertainment (including game design).
EXCELLENT, VIVID, COMMON-SENSE, WELL-ILLUSTRATED as always from Kathy Sierra's writing. 3000+ words. Much of it is based around courses I designed and taught at UCLA Extension's New Media/Entertainment Studies department. This is the long version, and my
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24 ways: Have Your DOM and Script It Too - sweetly devious trick to AJAX in both content + javascript execution, using onload handler in image tag in markup set as innerHTML [eg kupu loads when ajax in an edit form?]
Wouldn’t it be cool if browsers interpreted the contents of script tags crammed into innerHTML? By tacking a tiny image onto the end of the HTML returned by our Ajax call, we can smuggle our arbitrary JavaScript into the existing document.
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S5 1.2a1 | Eric's Archived Thoughts: new S5 version includes NotesView (from Shaun Inman), bug fixes, better Konquerer and much better Opera support, and permalinks to slides (progress-bar)
5 1.2 alpha 1 is now available (177 KB Zip archive), and you can play with either the OSF or XOXO versions of the latest development version if you just want to preview it online. In addition, I’ve set up a contact address specifically for S5 questions
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