a weblog by Ed Eliot

Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity. - Michael Johnson

This weblog is the online home of Ed Eliot, an experienced developer, architect and technical manager based in London, UK.

Entries for July 2008

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CSS Sprite Generator A tool for generating CSS sprite images.
Favicon Generator A tool for creating favicons - convert an existing image or create one from scratch with the included editor.

The Complete Guide for You to Become an Almighty jQuery Developer | Effectize A huge list of links to jquery tutorials and resources.
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library Yahoo! has released an early preview of YUI 3 - the next generation of their JavaScript library.

Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture A frank post about Twitter's recent availability problems and how they plan to solve.
Debugging Django Notes following Simon's presentation at the London Django User Group on available debugging options within Django and Python.

In the Arms of Strangers » Blog Archive » Django Admin Omnigraffle Stencil - Alex Lee's Blog OmniGraffle stencils for designing Django admin interfaces provided by a colleague at work.
SearchMonkey - YDN A really exciting development from Yahoo! which lets content publishers customise their results in Yahoo! search.

Session variables without cookies A pretty insane but clever method for storing data persistently on the client side.
MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 7.5.4.1 How the Query Cache Operates An explanation of how the MySql query cache works.
MySQL SELECT Entries Before NOW() | Hello, I am Sean Murphy Using now() in MySql queries can be inefficient. This post describes an alternative.

Is Michael Arrington One of the World's Most Influential People? | Fast Company Umm, well known in the IT industry, yes - ask the average punter on the street who he is, however, and they wouldn't have a clue.

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