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Vote to Promote Pattern (via Yahoo! Design Pattern Library)

Posted: March 9th, 2010 | Author: stevie | Filed under: Delicious, Lifestream, Links | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

"The user wants to promote a particular piece of content in a community pool of submissions. This promotion takes the form of a vote for that item, and items with more votes rise in the rankings to be displayed with more prominence."

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S3 FM

Posted: March 1st, 2010 | Author: stevie | Filed under: Delicious, Lifestream, Links | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

A tool for turning an Amazon S3 bucket into a streaming radio station.

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Playdar – Music Content Resolver

Posted: February 5th, 2010 | Author: stevie | Filed under: Delicious, Lifestream, Links | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

"Playdar provides a consistent API for accessing any song ever recorded."

Via.


Shorter URLs with goo.gl

Posted: February 4th, 2010 | Author: stevie | Filed under: Delicious, Lifestream, Links | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

"Google URL Shortener is currently available for Google products and not for broader consumer use."

Err, not any more. :)

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http://dummyimage.com/

Posted: February 3rd, 2010 | Author: stevie | Filed under: Delicious, Lifestream, Links | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

"Sometimes you just need a placeholder image right at your finger tips. Just enter the width + x + height at the end of this URL and off you go!"

Example: http://dummyimage.com/640×480

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django-atompub

Posted: January 26th, 2010 | Author: stevie | Filed under: Delicious, Lifestream, Links | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

implementation of Atom format and protocol for the Django web framework

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#grid — A layout grid in JavaScript and CSS for web design and typography

Posted: January 25th, 2010 | Author: stevie | Filed under: Delicious, Lifestream, Links | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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Don’t Hash Secrets

Posted: January 25th, 2010 | Author: stevie | Filed under: Delicious, Lifestream, Links | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

"So, again, don’t hash secrets. HMAC them."

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Video on the Web (via Dive Into HTML5)

Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Author: stevie | Filed under: Delicious, Lifestream, Links | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Getting up and running with HTML5's video element…

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Integrating WebSockets with App Engine (via Moon Blue Diary)

Posted: January 18th, 2010 | Author: stevie | Filed under: Delicious, Lifestream, Links | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Describes a method for using WebSockets with Google App Engine, using a 3rd party WebSocket server, which is necessary due to the 30 second per-requests limit imposed by App Engine.

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