Blue Sky On Mars

This is like something that I prototyped but never carried beyond that stage. It’s a validation package that offers a JSON interface, which means it should be possible to integrate with server-side based validation packages (have them generate the appropr

Just what I needed! Concise instructions for installing lxml on OS X.

I didn’t realize that this risk exists, and it’s certainly a good thing to be aware of. Our daughter is just getting into swimming now.

A new Python and Ruby inspired language that targets Erlang’s VMs and concurrency oriented programming.

WebKit, after tons of performance improvements, gets a bytecode VM that makes it 1.6x (on average) faster.

Interesting discussion on some technologies used by financial institutions to handle much larger transaction counts than Twitter has.

Useful tips from Dr. Sears.

A function that works in every browser for evaluating JavaScript code in the global namespace. Oddly enough, it’s in a comment attached to Dean Edwards’ blog post about sandboxing code so that it’s *not* in the global space.

Groovy-based build tool that seems to occupy a similar space as Paver.

Python module to easily store versioned JSON data.

Never say anything on camera if you don’t want it to be quoted back at you. McCain looks like a major flip flopper.

A pastebin that *runs the code*. Very cool, with a well-thought out security setup that makes the remotely pasted code secure.