Results from Hack Day at The Guardian. A full list of hacks from last week\x{2019}s hack day.
The March of Access Control. The W3C Access Control specification is set to become a key technology in enabling secure cross-domain APIs within browsers, and since it addresses a legitimate security issue on the web I hope and expect it will be rolled out a lot faster than most other specs.
OAuth in Minneapolis. OAuth looks like it\x{2019}s on track for an IETF Working Group.
Notes from Hack Day at The Guardian. Our first hack day was a ridiculous amount of fun. Matt\x{2019}s write-up includes a 15 minute highlight video, which includes my 90 second presentation of my crowdsourcing SVG-powered parliamentary constituencies hack.
Heck, I practically invented the formula of \x{201c}tell a funny story and then get all serious and show how this is amusing anecdote just goes to show that (one thing|the other) is a universal truth.\x{201d} And everybody is like, oh yes! how true! and they link to it with approval, and it zooms to the top of Slashdot. And six years later, a new king arises who did not know Joel, and he writes up another amusing anecdote, really, it\x{2019}s the same anecdote, and he uses it to prove the exact opposite, and everyone is like, oh yes! how true! and it zooms to the top of Reddit.
- Joel Spolsky
Django 1.0.2 released. An update to last week\x{2019}s 1.0.1 release, which I failed to link to. 1.0.2 mainly fixes some packaging issues, while 1.0.1 contains \x{201c}over two hundred fixes to the original Django 1.0 codebase\x{201d}. The team are holding up the promise to move to a regular release cycle after 1.0.
On UI Quality (The Little Things): Client-side Image Resizing. Two neat tips for cleanly scaling down images in IE 6 and 7 from Flickr\x{2019}s Scott Schiller.
Amazon CloudFront. The Amazon CDN front end for S3 has launched. Traffic is 2 cents per GB more than S3. I\x{2019}d like to see a price comparison with existing CDNs; I have a hunch it\x{2019}s an order of magnitude less expensive.
The new Lawrence.com. The world\x{2019}s best local entertainment website, relaunched on Django 1.0 with an accompanying substantial redesign.
lightningtimer.net. I\x{2019}m fed up of having to dig out or knock up a timer script every time I manage lightning talks, so I\x{2019}ve given one a domain name. You can use lightningtimer.net/#90 to set a different start time for the counter.