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Back from a month long hiatus.
Adam is on his way to Russia.
Pro Git book freely available
Improving perceived performance
Computing with Web Workers
Drag and Drop from Desktop to Web Application
ChromeOS roundup
Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple board
Google reveals plans for Chrome cloud synchronization
What is your editor of choice?
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Mikeal loves tree style tabs
Alex on Chrome Security model *
Another defection to the git camp
Buffett doesn’t want anything to do with it
Mozilla is trying to make the web browser into an OS
Rails 3 stuff
http://railsconf.blip.tv/file/2081411
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/301952/rails_3_add_security_enhancement
* this is the one Mikeal had no opinion on.
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Note that this episode is also a partial recording of episode 11 at the beginning.
Kimsal at jsconf
* hg-git plugin http://hg-git.github.com/
* Jacob Kaplan-Moss on REST http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/
http://ajaxian.com/archives/960-gridder-easy-to-use-layout-design-tool
http://gridder.andreehansson.se/
http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2009/04/28/how-to-be-edgy/
http://damienkatz.net/2009/04/pr0n_on_the_couch.html
http://dyepot-teapot.com/2009/04/25/dear-fellow-rubyists/
http://www.chesnok.com/daily/2009/04/27/what-works-getting-more-women-involved-in-open-source/
http://dyepot-teapot.com/2009/04/26/so-now-what/
http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/39-im-an-r-rated-individual
http://afreshcup.com/2009/04/28/a-painful-decision/
Other
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10231467-12.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
Seriously: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/30/203225
http://paularmstrongdesigns.com/weblog/basejs-a-mobile-javascript-framework
Beaten to death? http://bitworking.org/news/Why_so_many_Python_web_frameworks
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Mikeal and Adam @ PyCon
jsmag issue 2
JRuby on Rails on Google App Engine
http://olabini.com/blog/2009/04/jruby-on-rails-on-google-app-engine/
JavaScript on Rhino on Google App Engine
http://dev.helma.org/ng/Running+Rhino+and+Helma+NG+on+Google+App+Engine/
Choose your hell: tables or divs
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/08/from-table-hell-to-div-hell/
Text overflow goodness
http://ajaxian.com/archives/text-overflow-for-firefox-via-jquery
Chinese Social Networks out earn US Social Networks
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/05/chinese-social-networks-virtually-out-earn-facebook-and-myspace-a-market-analysis/
Bespin Adds iPhone Simulation
http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/04/bespin-community-update-outline-view-iphone-preview-python-support-and-defragging/
Digg Gets and URL shortener
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/04/02/diggHasAUrlshortener.html
http://apidoc.digg.com/ShortURLs
CouchHack
http://damienkatz.net/2009/03/couchhack_april_2009.html
Dojo 1.3 Released
http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/2009/03/dojo-13-is-out/
RIM hires former Apple, Microsoft designer
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10216420-94.html
Yelp: Businesses may publicly respond to reviews
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10216382-2.html
Q&A: Foursquare co-creator on privacy, Easter eggs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10215732-2.html
Cloudera: Hadoop commercialization
http://cloudera.com
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Windmill 1.0
Windmill 1.0 Lightning Talk Movie to Blow your Mind, Journey, Web2, AJAX
Why Facebook shouldn’t listen to its users
http://scobleizer.com/2009/03/21/why-facebook-has-never-listened-and-why-it-definitely-wont-start-now/
Groovy on Grails Moves to GitHub
http://github.com/blog/390-groovy-on-grails-on-github
Stallman says “Free the JavaScript”
http://ajaxian.com/archives/richard-stallman-free-the-javascript
Mark Pilgrim explains the state of accessibility for content creators
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/21/accessibility-is-a-harsh-mistress
I seriously considered getting an MBA about 2 years ago, http://tbm.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/03/25/rip-mba
I fought learning scheme in college, but we did it because that’s what MIT used, http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python
What does this mean for metaweb? http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Google_Adds_Semantic_Search_Technology_36198.html
http://blog.datamation.com/blog/2009/03/is-twitter-the.html
Are we going to miss china contributing to youtube? http://www.crn.com/security/216300048;jsessionid=ML1PUQFU3OIXEQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=ChannelWebCompleteFeed
IBM wants Sun, pwned. http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/66572.html
TestSwarm - distributed javascript testing
nytimes sends threats to bloggers
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/19/new-york-times-sends.html
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JavaScript Magazine Released
http://jsmag.com
JavaScript emulator for 6502 chip
http://6502asm.com/
Great introduction to functional web testing
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-aj-testing/
JavaScript/ActionScript PHP compiler
http://jaspa.org.uk/
Rapid prototyping with greasemonkey
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/rapid-prototyping-with-greasemonkey/
A Python interpreter is not created for each request in mod_python.
http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/03/python-interpreter-is-not-created-for.html
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql
Redis “key-value database”
http://code.google.com/p/redis/
(I missed this convo last week)
Facebook redesign == facebook wants to wipe out twitter
http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage_tour.php
mod_xsendfile
http://tn123.ath.cx/mod_xsendfile/
10 ways the newspaper insdustry is using social technology to save itself
http://mashable.com/2009/03/11/newspaper-industry/
Jay Rosen interviewed by Dave Winer
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/08/interviewWithJayRosen.html
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Using JavaScript map/reduce to create a browser cluster
http://www.igvita.com/2009/03/03/collaborative-map-reduce-in-the-browser/
Using JSONP in jQuery
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-aj-jsonp1/?ca=dgr-jw22JSONP-jQuery
Annoying performance bug in the Python stdlib
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2009/3/1/the-1000-speedup-or-the-stdlib-sucks
Asynchronous by default
http://rcoder.net/content/never-do-today
Javascript
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Mikeal got a kindle!
Adam released MyTabs
http://adamchristian.com/
Great discussion of CSS Rule additions to jQuery API
http://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/22/rule/
Lifehacker’s 10 ways to get a better job
http://lifehacker.com/5157794/top-10-tools-for-landing-a-better-job?skyline=true
Facebook’s TOS, Our Bad
http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/26/facebook-releases-draft-of-new-user-terms-asks-for-feedback/
Louis C.K.: “Everything is so Amazing”
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/so_amazing_but.php
Do we just expect stuff to be kind of broken on the Web?
http://mushpot.net/item/213
More cuts at the SF Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/24/MNO2164F73.DTL
Newspaper Deathwatch: http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/
JSMag coming soon! http://www.jsmag.com
I was asked to help bring some order from the chaos that is Adam Christian, Mikeal Rogers and Matthew Eernisse when they get together to chat about web stuff. So I did. This blog will be the hosting place for our upcoming chats There’s actually one already done, which may end up getting released in the next couple days. Stay tuned 
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