web things
Google Blog Search
Google’s just launched their blog search service. This should cause some interesting disruption in the feed search space. Google’s service is pretty comprehensive in terms of providing search, and it’s blindingly fast, but there aren’t any bells and whistles yet. Bring on the the daily blog zeitgeist!
Pandora
I was lucky enough to snag an invite for Pandora from Michael Arrington. Pandora works really well. You create ’stations’ by seeding them with an artist or song, and based on the qualities of the music you’ve chosen, the station will present a steady stream of songs with similar qualities. [...]
Rails and Django
Informative comparison of Ruby on Rails and Django. I’ve been playing with both of them lately. I don’t think it’s a case of nominating one as better; they have different pedigrees and, unless you’re making a decision based purely on the underlying language, your choice should be dictated by the kind of web [...]
Seriously Agile
Flickr’s Eric Costello: “we also have a very agile development process. We deploy code to the site maybe 10 times a day on a busy day.”
MagicLine: My Jaw is on the Floor.
Wow. MagicLine is an increadibly cool greasemonkey script.
Google Search History
I’ve had Google’s personalised search running for a while, but I never realised how cool the search history function was. One of the things it shows you is a calendar of your search density.
Google has also slicked up the interface to the personalised homepage, and rolled out the ability to add miscellaneous feeds to [...]
Greasemonkey Vulnerability Explained
Simon Willison lucidly explains the security issue with versions of Greasemonkey prior to 0.3.5.
Deer Park Alpha
I’m having a play with Deer Park, the alpha candidate for Firefox 1.1. So far it looks great. Flickrfox works with it without any problems, though unfortunately Sage, which I’ve been using to read feeds for a little while, is broken.
There is a swag of new stuff in Deer Park for extension developers, [...]