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The 2007-03-30 at 07:43 by Loïc d'Anterroches filed under Friday Links.

Python News

• Announcing Django 0.96!. My beloved Python web-framework got a new release.
• PyPy release 1.0. With JIT compiler generator, optimizations and more…

Business

• Why to Not Not Start a Startup. Another interesting/good essay from Paul Graham on the bad reasons not to start a startup.
• "Hindsight" Commencement Speech. By Guy Kawasaki. A little bit like the Do what you love by Steve Jobs.

Trends

A lot about scalability issues. Erlang is really going to find a lot fans once again in the near future.

• Availability is a Feature.
• Web 2.0: Shifting from "Get Fast" to "Get Massive".
• Partitioning == Scalability, but what about aggregation?
• Making it stick.: Process Improvement

Development

• Beginner’s guide to OpenID phishing. OpenID is also subject to phishing.
• Rules For JavaScript Library Authors by Dean Edwards. Interesting rules to keep in mind when developing JavaScript code.

Offline/Online…

• Joyent Slingshot. Run a Ruby On Rails application locally and sync it with a hosted one.
• DjangoKit. 3 days later, the same for a Django application…
• Do not forget XULRunner for a similar approach.

Personal reminder of interesting design blogs

• Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design.
• Adaptive Path blog.
• Functioning Form - Interface Design Blog (Weblog).
• A List Apart.

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