Archive: February 26, 2006

Sunday, February 26, 2006

1. JeffCroft.com: Django Templates: The Power of Inheritance (via Simon Willison). To read.

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2. Standardista Table Sorting (via Rich Manalang):

   Standardista Table Sorting is a JavaScript module that lets you sort an HTML data table by any column... It’s unobtrusive. You add a reference to the Standardista Table Sorting JavaScript files in the head of your webpage, add a class of “sortable” to the tables in your page that should be sorted and you’re done.

   Awesome.

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3. pyparsing -- a class library for text processing in Python. Also see the O'Reilly article about it, Building Recursive Descent Parsers with Python. I came across pyparsing the other day (don't remember where), but the O'Reilly article is via Keith Gaughan.

     ¶ (2) Tags: [Python]

4. YouTube - Autistic basketball player creates mayhem at game (via the TxD forum). It's good mayhem... go watch.

   Update: CBS has another video (via Ned). The Youtube link above no longer works.

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Alan Kay speaks

Bill Clementson's Blog: The Most Important Idea in Computer Science (via Chris Double).

Favorite quote, from Alan Kay: "Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS." Note that Kay is one of the inventors of Smalltalk.

Update: Phil Windley - Alan Kay: Is Computer Science as Oxymoron? Phil was at the talk and has lots of notes from it. Worth a read. Via Paul Hammond.

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