Another very astute analysis from ReadWriteWeb in which they discuss how simple and contextual interfaces are becoming more popular than the standard “Windows UI” approach of “never-ending choices.” The author asks if these simpler interfaces will become dominant in the near future, and I certainly hope they do.
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The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 09:01 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Coding Horror: Your Session Has Timed Out
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 11:15 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an interesting post by Jeff Atwood on how programmers should handle session expiration in their applications. I particularly like his explanation of why session expiration occurs:
“The HTTP protocol that the web is built on is stateless. That means every individual request your browser sends to a web server is a newborn babe, cruelly born into a world that is utterly and completely oblivious to its existence.” 
Urgency is poisonous - (37signals)
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 16:25 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a great post by Jason Fried over at 37 signals. As he mentions, this won’t work in every industry, but it absolutely makes sense in software. Good stuff.
Using Django with Appengine
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 23:30 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a useful guide for navigating some of the specifics of getting a Django project up and running on Google App Engine.
Django Rosetta
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 12:09 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Via Simon Willison:
This is a real cool Django app that creates an awesome interface to help internationalize your site. Allows the adminstrator, and an optional group of designated translators to read and write your site’s gettext files.
DZone - fresh links for developers
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 07:26 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a Digg-like site for developers. It’s still fairly small, but I found some really great content that I hadn’t seen before within the first ten minutes of browsing it.
Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, April 7, 2008 @ 21:53 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Google provides major infrastructure for web app hosting, in direct competition with Amazon’s Web Services. Google’s service is free unless you go over your limits, which look reasonable at the outset. Your app needs to be written in Python (more languages available later), which will be a limitation for some, but as you may have noticed I am quite fond of that language.
That being said, the platform is pretty proprietary, and at this point I don’t have enough info on how easy/difficult it is to get your stuff back out of it if you need to. This is an exciting offering, but one I’ll probably wait and watch on.
FormWizard: multiple-step forms in Django
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 @ 15:38 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an awesome new feature in Django trunk that I hadn’t heard of before. Django now provides a system for handling multiple step form entry. Can’t wait to try this out.
Django and Comet
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, March 15, 2008 @ 18:13 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an interesting tutorial on using Comet with Django for realtime JS apps. The example is creating a live chat page.
First date with the Googlebot: Headers and compression
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, March 6, 2008 @ 21:43 CST by Daniel Andrlik
From the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: This is a cute explanation of how the Googlebot works when crawling and indexing sites.
