From Garrison Keillor:
Confident men took leave of common sense and bet on the idea of perpetual profit in the real estate market and crashed. But it wasn't their money. It was your money they were messing with. And that's why you need government regulators. Gimlet-eyed men with steel-rim glasses and crepe-soled shoes who check the numbers and have the power to say, "This is a scam and a hustle and either you cease and desist or you spend a few years in a minimum-security federal facility playing backgammon."
Indeed.
glitchDS is a cellular automaton sequencer for Nintendo DS.
Daft Punk + Charleston = Fantastic
This template tag does two things needed to properly display TinyMCE-generated HTML content in Flash's htmlText component:
Phillip Pearson gives us (another) queuing system implementing Facebook's Thrift framework. Thrift has always seemed a little bulky, but cheers to interoperability! The README notes that its been clocked at 4000 RPCs/sec on a laptop -- quite impressive for a "toy in-memory queue".
Artist/troublemaker Mark Jenkins embeds a fake living statue in Barcelona. Hilarity ensues.
ExtJS 2.1 saw inclusion of the (at least in my world) popular user extension for AJAX filtering of data by grid columns. As useful as this is (provided you can abide by the GPL or paid licensing options), the filtering data is formatted as a PHP array, which is not terrifically useful for other languages. With a quick modification to the grid filtering class and a Django helper, the grid can send a JSON string that Django can use to directly apply filtering to a QuerySet. I've found that most clients love having the ability to peruse their data this way, and the amount of work to get everything set up is minimal. Even better, the code is minimal, reusable, and pretty straight-forward. I like that.
Debatably Beta is making a more dedicated return with a lot of content on the way. I've had some time to develop a well-featured blogging application for the blogging developer, which will eventually to cut loose and thrust into the world.
Thanks for making it this far down!