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Tonight at the Stockholm Django User Group meeting, which is usually held second Monday of the month, I’ll be giving a short presentation on using Fabric to deploy applications. It’s not particularly oriented towards Django applications per se, I just threw that in to make it fit in and look cooler.

I’m far from an expert when it comes to the subject so hopefully it can trigger a good discussion a...

David Hall är en av de mest ödmjuka och snällaste människor jag känner (@andcar som pekar på hans tröja är också snäll!)

We’ve packed our back packs and we’re ready to leave. One of the twittering buses is picking up Karin and me tomorrow at 10am. Can’t wait! :)

This post was actually meant to go out before we headed out but I just didn’t have time to publish it. Too much time spent weighing the options in terms of equipment (pun intended, see below :)

As we got hooked on fjällen last year, Karin and I early on decided to go backpacking in the north of Sweden again. This time, we met up with my dad and brother at Arlanda airport and flew together up to Ki...

makeSearchCommand({
  name: "Bloggy",
  url: "http://bloggy.se/search/{QUERY}",
  icon: "http://bloggy.se/favicon.ico",
  description: "Searches Bloggy for...",
  preview: function(pblock, directObject) {
    var searchTerm = directObject.text;
    var pTemplate = "Searches Bloggy.se for ${query}";
    var pData = {query: searchTerm};
    pblock.innerHTML = CmdUtils.renderTemplate(pTemplate, pData);
  }
});

I’ve added Ubiquity meta information to this page so that you should see a Firefox bar across the top of the page asking you whether or not to install/subscribe to this script.

For people who have installed Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs, here’s a user script that enables you to quickly search for words in Wordnik:

makeSearchCommand({
  name: "Wordnik",
  url: "http://wordnik.com/{QUERY}",
  icon: "http://wordnik.com/media/img/wordnik.ico",
  description: "Searches Wordnik for your words.",
  preview: function(pblock, directObject) {
    var searchTerm = directObject.text;
    var pTemplate = "Searches Wordnik for ${query}";
    var pData = {query: searchTerm};
    pblock.innerHTML = CmdUtils.renderTemplate(pTemplate, pData);
  }
});

I’ve added Ubiquity meta information to this page so that you should see a Firefox bar across the top of the page asking you whether or not to install/subscribe to this script.

For the Jaiku users who have installed Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs, here’s a user script that enables you to search Jaiku through Jaikungfu (please let me know if you have a suggestion for something shorter and easier to type!)


makeSearchCommand({
name: "jaikungfu",
url: "http://jaiku.lemonad.org/search?q={QUERY}",
icon: "http://jaiku.lemonad.org/favicon.ico",
description: "Jaikungfu search Jaiku.",
preview: function(pBlock, directObj) {
if (directObj.text)
pBlock.innerHtml = "Searches Jaiku for " + directObj.text + "(jaikungfu)";
else
pBlock.innerHTML = "Searches Jaiku for the given words (jaikungfu)";
}
});

Thanks to Håkan Kjellerstrand for teaching me the basics!

Hello! It’s been a while.

Karin and I are going backpacking in the north of Sweden. The tentative itinerary is to meet Jonathan and Jessie in Kiruna on the 23rd. They’ll arrive at the airport coming from the US via Stockholm. On the morning of the 24th we’ll start hiking from Abisko and follow Kungsleden for a couple of days.

When we reach Sälkasstugorna we’ll head off on the “unmarked” trails up ...

Some of the information herein has not been updated for a while. Go to Jaikungfu on Google Code for the latest version!

Greasemonkey scripts are great. However, for users and developers alike, they do pose one problem; that of managing updates and bug fixes. There’s no automatic infrastructure set up for it and users might not notice that there are newer versions out—especially if they’re happy w...

The below has since been superseded by Jaikungfu, my firefox extension for Jaiku.

This script will create links out of @username and #channel. Before:

with script

After:

without script

To enable this functionality, you will first have to install Greasemonkey. After that, you are ready to install the Jaiku AutoLink script. Please email me or contact me through jaiku if you have suggestions or e...

The below has since been superceded by Jaikungfu, my firefox extension for Jaiku.

A while ago I posted a suggestion to the Jaiku #jaiku channel on showing more of the presence titles when listing comments in order to provide more context. Currently, comments are displayed like this:

without script

The thing is that the listing actually has more context information embedded in it but you would ha...

Forthcoming?

No doubt, a river otter would be the perfect animal for the cover of a book on twitter in the O’Reilly series. Just look at that little hand, perfect for texting....

People in South Carolina and Florida probably thought we were out of our minds when we replied “mountain biking” after being asked why we were in South Carolina or Florida. The thing is though, that there’s awesome trails down there! Sure, no real mountains or anything like that but still…

Karin on Canopy Trail in Santos, FL

Karin riding a skinny on the red trail around the Vortex freeride area...

For the second year in a row, Karin and I are heading to south for an easter mountain biking vacation. We haven’t quite decided where to go but North Carolina and Pisgah are definitely on the map - the trails there are awesome, some of the best in the country! Being in the blue ridge/smoky mountains area that might not be so surprising.

What you might be more surprised to hear though is that Florida seem to have some amazing mountain biking trails too. We haven’t been biking there yet so I’m very enthusiastic about going there if we have the time. The terrain is generally pretty flat which has led to trails being more freeride oriented. I guess it’s also a matter of parks there being confined to smaller areas.

Santos Trail, Florida (via toddsherman).

Anyhow, we’ll be back in about ten days! Ten days of biking and camping so wifi will be limited to sneaking access outside of motels :)

perhaps other peploids also write about mountain biking, pisgah, santos?

Tags are great, we all love tags! For one, they replaced the mentally taxing task of having to choose one and only one folder or category to put an item into. They also built upon the idea of folksonomy; that people over time will conform in terms of how they describe things because they both want to be understood and understand others. It’s an evolutionary process where the rules, albeit implicit...

Robert Scoble totally hits the nail on the head in replying to the question what happens after google loses? I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter very much how the court case is played out, both the new generation of media consumers/producers will be better off—period.

For this case and every case like it, more and more people will look more openly towards alternatives. And the people who still choose to side with big media (in lack of a more concise term) will likely do so because they agree with these companies take on specific issues, not because they’re against the alternative per se. Obviously, at the end of the day, money will involved either way.

The larger economic aspects aside, what I personally am hoping for is to see a growing micro market with more independents, more bold moves, but most of all, more people being genuine and sincere. A paradigm shift that not only brings with it a transfer of money from one account to a lot of others but a whole new rationale for what things are worth as well.

Many people are certainly willing to pay a premium for things they enjoy and feel for. Once you answer the question whether someone is sincere with a resounding yes, that cd bought directly from the artist for $20 is a bargain, really. After all, you were probably getting something that was not a fit-one, fit-all but instead something that felt just right. It’s no longer only about what story is being told, it’s how you interact with it as well.

• SXSW: The Figures Behind The Top Web Apps (Sean Ammirati) (tags: web2.0 money)
• Hack MySQL :: Exploring the world’s most popular open source database (tags: mysql database optimization reference)
• Ajaxian » True Javascript Sockets? (tags: ajax communication sockets)
• twitterami.com - where the twitterAmI twitter someone local to you (tags: twitter maps mashup)
• Web Typography Sucks | Sli...

When looking at the twitter feeds today I noticed that they support http if-modified-since. Type in the following in your shell:

$ curl -z "20070312 00:00:00 CET"
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/663633.rss

and it returns:

http://twitter.com/lemonad
Twitter updates from lemonad
en-us
40


lemonad: This is a message
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:11:34 +0000
http://twitter.com/lemonad/statuses/6883771
http://twitter.com/lemonad/statuses/6883771



lemonad: This is another message
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:15:46 +0000
http://twitter.com/lemonad/statuses/6806561
http://twitter.com/lemonad/statuses/6806561

but if you instead type:

$ curl -z "20070312 02:00:00 CET"
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/663633.rss

you will get the following result:

http://twitter.com/lemonad
Twitter updates from lemonad
en-us
40


lemonad: This is a message
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:11:34 +0000
http://twitter.com/lemonad/statuses/6883771
http://twitter.com/lemonad/statuses/6883771

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like there’s any way of getting back more than 20 items, no matter what date and time is used.

20070313: Add ?count=n to the end of the feed url where n is the number of entries you want. This way you can get a lot more than 20 entries.

20070318: From the Twitter Development Talk group:

Wow, Jonas, you found that recent addition before we even documented it! You totally get a gold star :)
–
Alex Payne
Obvious
http://twitter.com/al3x

By the way, if you haven’t already got SXSW- and twitter-induced ADD or you’re willing to live with it, then by all means feel free to add me!

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With that said, Six Apart has supported UTF-8 in their blogging platform Movable Type for a long time so I've kind of taken it for granted and never thought much about it. That is, until I tried exporting and then reimporting the...

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