About a month ago, I mentioned that the TurboGears Ultimate DVD and my other TG merchandise (MarbleGears and the toolboxes) were on clearance. I’ve reduced the prices a little more and set Monday as the last day for sales of the goods. Now is your last chance! The stuff is cheap, and I’d be happy if my fulfillment company has less stuff to send back to me 
Last weekend for the TurboGears Ultimate DVD, etc.
links for 2007-08-23
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free DNS server that claims to be faster than your typical ISP’s
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Neat JQuery plugin that runs code against nodes automatically as they match or don’t match a given JQuery selector. Even works with new nodes added via Ajax or removed by JavaScript.
links for 2007-08-22
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Dijit is the Dojo toolkit widgets spinoff, and there’s a nice collection of features in 0.9.
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Simon Willison provides a great overview of JQuery and the features that make it cool and interesting.
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Mike Bayer takes up Bob Brewer’s ORM speed challenge (though Mike makes an apt analogy that speed is not SQLAlchemy’s primary focus). This reminds me of the competition in CSS-based selectors that was going on in JavaScript-land a couple months ago. Only
Flash gets H.264 support
Interesting news: Mac Rumors: Adobe Annouces H.264 Support in Flash
The reason I find this interesting is that most of the popular video sites have settled on Flash-based players as their standard user interface. From my experimentation, H.264 provides the best size/quality ratio that I’ve seen for screencasting, at least among codecs that are broadly supported. So, the addition of H.264 to Flash means that the Flash player can now be a good platform for lossy-encoded screencasts.
It’s worth noting that TechSmith’s Camtasia product already produces high-quality SWF Flash movies. Those movies are actually lossless and look fantastic, but they are bigger than a comparable H.264 movie.
links for 2007-08-21
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Bob Brewer compares the performance of a few operations in three current Python ORMs. Good detail, and a good exposure of some places where performance can be improved.
links for 2007-08-18
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A reasonable approach for module-like things (including private variables) in JavaScript
links for 2007-08-15
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A very compact (albeit with some integrated ads) and concise list of models and theories that can be used as a jumping off point for further learning.
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Universal is starting to sell DRM-free songs on an “experimental” basis, but they won’t do it through iTunes. This article is probably the best summary of the situation that you’re going to see. The short of it is that Universal is part of that special br
links for 2007-08-12
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Thumbscrew is a Mac app for creating attractive, rotated thumbnails.