crankycoder.com

Links for April 26th :

• python-loggingserver – This projects provides a Python Logging Server based on the Twisted framework
• gRaphaël—Charting JavaScript Library – Very nice looking javascript charting api
• Datadotgc.ca – A citizen-led beta for government data | datadotgc.ca – Unlike the United States (data.gov) and Britain (data.gov.uk), Canada has no open data strategy. This must change. Canadians paid for the information gathered about our country, ourselves and our government. Free access to it could help stimulate our economy and enhance our democracy.
• Keeping tabs on Canada’s Parliament | openparliament.ca – I look forward to keeping tabs on my MP. <br /> <br /> FANTASTIC!
• Bank of Canada: Monetary Policy Report –

Links for January 26th :

• crecord extension for Mercurial – The crecord mercurial extension allows you to interactively choose among the changes you have made (with line-level granularity), and commit only those changes you select. After committing the selected changes, the unselected changes are still present in your working copy, so you can use crecord multiple times to split large changes into several smaller changesets.
• Highcharts – Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage –
• [#DERBY-3973] Create function wrappers for DatabaseMetaData so that you can join metadata results in queries. – ASF JIRA – Enhancing JavaDB/Apache Derby with extra intrsospection capabilities
• TCAF: Toronto Comic Arts Festival –
• InfoQ: Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design –

Links for December 22nd :

• Query Managed Auto Increment – Varying query managed insert behavior across differing database vendors.
• Climate change data dumped – Times Online –
• Flaherty warns on mortgage rules – The Globe and Mail –
• How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor’s blog –
• API – Cassandra Wiki –

Links for May 19th :

• Django tip: Caching and two-phased template rendering | Holovaty.com – Use two phase caching of templates to support caching of parts of a page.
• API Design Guidelines – Pile'o links re: API design
• What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You? – NYTimes.com – Anyone who purchased a chrome-skull car accessory or a “Mega Thruster Exhaust System” was pretty likely to miss paying his bill eventually.
• Round Manhole Covers, or: If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft :: hebig.org/blog –
• Your Morning Commute is Unique: On the Anonymity of Home/Work Location Pairs « 33 Bits of Entropy –

Links for May 5th :

• Synaptics Touchpad – Community Ubuntu Documentation – Use syndaemon to disable the touchpad while typing – handy on netbooks. Needs the synaptics driver or synaptics-elantech driver to work properly.
• Touchpad driver enhancements for EeePC – Enable the enhanced touchpad driver for the eee and get rid of the herky jerky behavior and enable the Touchpad GNOME option
• jespern / django-piston / wiki / Home — bitbucket.org – quickly roll RESTful APIs for Django
• Net use – Window's equivalent of "mount" – let's you see what the current drive mappings are
• Equivalent of "which" in Windows Command Shell (Pankaj Kumar’s Weblog) – Good lord I hate Windows.
• Timetric: Making data useful –