Link blogging

My tech talk on Tornado (video and slides) - Bret Taylor's blog
Zech talk on Tornado yesterday evening at Facebook's offices
(tags: python tornado webserver)

Tornado Web Server
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.
(tags: python webserver authentication)

Google Chrome | Ben Kevan's Blog
Google Chrome for OpenSuse
(tags: google chrome linux)

XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheat Sheet
his page is for people who already understand the basics of XSS attacks but want a deep understanding of the nuances regarding filter evasion. This page will also not show you how to mitigate XSS vectors or how to write the actual cookie/credential stealing/replay/session riding portion of the attack.
(tags: xss [...]

Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
When underdogs break the rules.
by Malcolm Gladwell
(tags: entrepreneurship)

Kanban Vs Scrum
Kanban vs Scrum A practical guide Henrik Kniberg henrik.kniberg crisp.se 2009-04-08 (draft)
(tags: kanban scrum agile-development)

Performance comparison: key/value stores for language model counts - Brendan O'Connor's Blog
"Here are timings for a single counting process: iterate over 45,000 short text messages, tokenize them, then increment counters for their unigrams and bigrams. (The speed of the data store is only one component of performance.) There are about 17 increments per tweet: 400k [...]

Joe Armstrong SICS home page
Some Erlang tutorials
(tags: programming erlang)

The Static Method Thing
differences between Python class methods / class variables and Java static methods / static variables
(tags: programming python java)

Python Is Not Java (dirtSimple.org)
Not because "Python is slower than Java", but because there are easier ways to accomplish the same goals in Python, that wouldn't even be possible in Java.
(tags: programming python java)

The Grid System
The ultimate resource in grid systems.
(tags: webdesign grid tool typography design)