YASDW – yet another software developer weblog

• VcsSurvey
  Martin Fowler with VCS survey data
• IE6 Funeral
  It’s over. Finally.
• A Simple Step-by-Step Reportlab Tutorial
  PDF creation with Python

• IT job trends – Which technologies you should learn next
  No predictions, just plain statistics. Great information
• Coding with JDK7
  Nice stuff, but no killer feature here
• How to umount when the device is busy
  … without force

• My Future of Web Frameworks Presentation
  Nice overview about what was and what (maybe) will be.
• Kann man Google irgendwie entkommen?
  Pfu. Schwierige Aufgabe. Bin schon gespannt auf weitere Schritte.
• Speed up your dev cycle with git
  Switching from a central to a distributed SCM can (and probably will)  be mind-blowing.

• Measuring FAIL: A Scorecard for Evaluating Open Source Projects
  “Your releases are only in .arj format [ +50 points of FAIL ]“
• VersionControlTools
  Maybe the most cited Blog entry today. Good stuff.
• 10+ useful online code editors
  With a vim style editor, of course

• The Definitive Guide To Styling Web Links
  Detailed and comprehensive Information on a basic topic
• A One Day Griffon Application/Presentation
  Griffon? Hype? Maybe.
• Freiheit für die Dokumente
  CouchDB jetzt schon auf heise (developer) …
• Traincoding: shell.py: A pythonic equivalent for perl’s use Shell;
  ”

  1	print shell.ls('/usr').stdout

  “

Trying to get this drop-shadow working in wordpress …

• 3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you
  Convinced? You should be.
• Reflection.js for jQuery
  Now with cat.
• Including jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way)
  Even with jQuery.noConflict()

• Another Step-by-Step SqlAlchemy Tutorial (part 1 of 2)
  Introduction of the Python ORM
• BugMeNot
  Shared user accounts to bypass website registration. Nice.
• What is your solution to the FizzBuzz problem?
  Average question, outstanding answers. Amusing!

• Rich-Text Editors for 2010 and Beyond
  Nice List
• 7 Amazing jQuery 3D
  I like the Rotation Demo
• 30 Websites To Download Free Stock Photos
  Free pictures everywhere

• JSNES and Emulation
  (S)NES Games in a Browser. I bet this performs ugly (not only in IE).
• Is it possible to display Indentation guides in Vim?
  Short answer: Yes.
• Get to know Apache Click
  Yet Another Web Framework

• Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I and Part2
  An Introduction to SVG
• Rolling a coke can around with pure CSS
  Nice Effect!
• 20 Indispensable Browser Based Apps
  There are a few new ones on the list.