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Heroku's Interagent is a set of practical guidelines for building APIs based on their Platform API: https://github.com/interagent/http-api-design

If you're going across the network, a slow timeout is often trickier than an explicit failure. I wrote about handling this in Python: http://www.mobify.com/blog/http-requests-are-h…

No worries! It worked, we just got a lot of emails :) Could you aggregate the messages and post an update when the entire task is complete? Seeing the commits come seems to be a go…

Cool tool! I gave it a shot on one of our private repos this morning and it did what it said on the box. In the process it also generated ~150 comments on the repo. For folks watch…

"As a general rule, it's not possible to securely allow arbitrary user-provided content on a subdomain." This rule is also good to keep in mind when choosing a domain for non-produ…

Reminds me of the iPad app Prism: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/prism-the-image-browser/id488...

Especially when parts are straight copies out of Zepto. Zepto Closest Implementation: https://github.com/madrobby/zepto/blob/master/src/zepto.js#L... JQ.Mobi: https://github.com/ap…

Mobify, Vancouver, Canada. Director of Engineering Mobify is a growing, profitable, bootstrapped startup. Our goal is to build a web where every website delivers and amazing experi…

It's been fun watching these features play out in libraries over the last year. I particularly like the idea of TemplateResponse - the earliest implementation I saw was in simonw's…

Vancouver, BC, Canada - Mobify http://mobify.me/jobs/ We're building great mobile experiences using HTML5. Looking for smart people with a background in web development. We're base…

JavaScript Developer (Wearer of Many Hats) - Vancouver, Canada http://mobifymedia.com/jobs/ Mobify is a mobile web company. We're changing the way people surf the mobile web. We wo…

customizing auth.User to accept an email based login This app solves the problem by allowing users to log in using their email address. It's not a bug that it doesn't deal with acc…

Re. customizing auth.User to accept email based login - There isn't a completely DRY solution for this, but it's got much better - here is a tiny app that will do it for you: http:…

The URL of the CSS file and the contents are POST'ed as a key/val pair back to a endpoint you specify in the configuration. You'll need to setup a listener on your server to proces…

Acquisition, investment or acceptance into an incubator are all great things but don't build your startup in such a way that success is dependant upon them. Ultimately, your succes…

Steve's final conclusion: “For most web sites, the possible performance gains from optimizing CSS selectors will be small, and are not worth the costs. ” http://www.stevesouders.co…

Happy that their status page stay up this time. Last time (236 days ago) this happened, it was not. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=685093

None. Having worked on mobile web applications that serve a wide range of devices, I can honestly say that this is not the case. I would challange ppk to cite examples of this beha…

I think you guys nailed the look and feel, nice work! A few months ago I was looking for a Django forum. Of the existing solutions, I liked Snapboard best for it's clean code, rela…

In Django, a common view pattern is to protect access to a resource by user ownership. This article discusses how to allow staff to access any resource while still restricting regu…

Not to be cheeky but if you're familiar with programming and JavaScript I'd start with the jQuery source: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js Be patient and…

This is a very crowded space. The involved players market themselves towards carriers rather than the end user so it's unlikely simple searching will turn them up. For example airG…

If you're interested in Django Design Patterns check out James Tauber and Brian Rosner's talk "Django Design Patterns": http://eldarion.com/talks/2009/05/eurodjangocon_djangopatter…