In talking about Javascript Associative Arrays considered harmful, Ajaxian mentions that the Prototype library no longer extends Object.prototype as of 1.5. Welcome to the world of compatible JavaScript! (They do extend Array.prototype, but that cause far fewer headaches, if any.)
Abhik pointed me to iShowU. This looks like a viable competitor to Snapz (though I haven’t tried it yet to be sure). The features list makes it sound like their recorder is highly optimized. If this works as well as it sounds and carries a price tag lower than Snapz’ $70, this could indeed be a solid screen recorder for the Mac.
After more than 68,000 views of the original screencast, I have just put up a more svelte 20 Minute Wiki Tutorial for TurboGears. This screencast was much more elaborately produced, but it’s still the same at the heart of it.
I’ll be linking it up from the front page of TurboGears.org sometime soon.
The press release I posted here is up on PRWire: Blazing Things LLC and Appropriate Solutions, Inc. to Co-Develop Zesty News, the On-Line News and Information Aggregator
Scan This Book! by Kevin Kelly is likely the best summary you’re going to find of the state of a massive “holds everything” library and some of the copyright issues around that.
I would’ve just posted on his blog, but the anti-spam Turing test didn’t work for me. (I’m not a bot! I swear!) Django will overtake Zope shows a graph from the recently released Google Trends that would make it appear that Django (the web framework) was about to pass Zope in Google searches people run. Of course, Zope (and TurboGears for that matter) are both unique names in the search space.
You see those letters along the Django graph? Those are the letters that tell you that this comparison is complete BS.
Django, Bata are top seeds
ABS CBN News - Apr 16 2004
Django Bustamante earns semifinals slot
ABS CBN News - Aug 30 2004
Dudley Hill, guitarist and co-founder of Pearl Django, dead at 56
kgw.com (subscription) - Jan 20 2005
Django, Pagulayan vie for billiards title
ABS CBN News - May 29 2005
Bare Eye : Bata and Django: Who’s better or worse
INQ7.net - Jul 7 2005
Passion: John Jorgenson plays the music of French gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt
News & Star - Apr 13 2006
In fact, Django (the web framework) wasn’t publicly released until mid-2005 and the Django graph had a modest uptick after its release.
In a month, Zope will indeed have less mindshare than Django the pool player and Django Reinhardt. But that comparison is almost as interesting as comparing Ruby on Rails to Britney Spears:
The Construction Site, the Quadro building kits look way cool and even include miniature (1/5th size) versions of the same pieces so you can model the thing you’re going to build.
I was in codec hell today, a place that is commonly occupied by folks doing various kinds of video. This write-up: Best codec for Screen capture content is pretty consistent with what I’ve seen. H.264 is a mighty fine codec.
A very on target comparison of Dojo and Prototype (javascript toolkits). As I said in the comments there, MochiKit hits the same kind of easy-to-use sweet spot that Prototype does, but it also plays nicely with Dojo. And has great docs.
