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Tuesday, 11th March 2008

The GigaOM Interview: Mark Zuckerberg. Some interesting titbits on Facebook’s architecture. 0 5:41 am

IE8 speeds things up. Steve Souders notes that IE8 downloads script files in parallel before executing them sequentially, giving it a significant speed boost over other browsers that download sequentially. 2 5:42 am

What Sucks About Erlang. Damien Katz shares his greatest frustrations from working with Erlang on CouchDB. 0 5:45 am

In Response to “What Sucks About Erlang”. Yariv Sadan responds to Damien’s criticism. 0 5:46 am

python4ply tutorial. python4ply is a parser for Python written in Python using the PLY toolkit, which compiles to Python bytecode using the built-in compiler module. The tutorial shows how to use it to add support for Perl-style 1_000_000 readable numbers. 0 5:49 am

Hacking Contributed Models. Neat Django trick using monkeypatching to make some minor tweaks to built-in contributed models such as auth or flatpages. 0 5:51 am

Clickpass. Peter Nixey’s new OpenID startup has finally launched—does a great job of making OpenID more approachable with a clean, well designed UI and a neat orange button. 7 4:47 pm

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