Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• Pypants Grading for Python Projects
• The Style Master Blog » Apple’s Navigation bar using only CSS
• simonw’s geocoders at master - GitHub Ultra simple API for geocoding a single string against various web services
• Dragon Labs » Codename Rainbows We use some JavaScript and CSS magic to apply a two-color gradient to any text. Shadows and highlights can also be applied.
• Django tip: Caching and two-phased template rendering | Holovaty.com

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• How to do Basecamp-style subdomains in Rails - (37signals)
• Building an interactive map with jQuery instead of Flash | Raleigh Web Design & Development | New Media Campaigns
• iLife Tip: Enable Multi-Touch maps in iPhoto '09 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities) and type (or copy/paste) the following statement and press enter:

  defaults write com.apple.iphoto MapScrollWheel -bool YES

  When you restart iPhoto, you will notice that you are now able to scroll in/out of the Places maps with ease. If it turns out that you don't want the scrolling feature, just retype the statement, replacing "YES" with "NO."

• Encoding for Apple TV | Mac 911 | Macworld
• Enable Emoji Icon on iPhone 2.2 without Jailbreak | Simon Blog

Develop Freely!

Today MapQuest announced a Free Edition of their platform: 6 APIs for mapping, routing, and geocoding in JavaScript, AS3 (ActionScript 3: Flash Flex, AIR), FUJAX (write JavaScript, get Flash), Java, .NET, and C++.

Check out the MapQuest Developer Blog. Here you’ll find a familiar author among all the how-tos and other useful information. Then check out the MapQuest Developer Network and go build something cool with one of the APIs. Developer Choice: we gots it.