“Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. Right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from the context menu — the banner won’t be downloaded again.”
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Nomad’s Land supports “Ad Block Plus” and “EasyList”
July 23rd, 2008 — Internet, e-commerce
Next Gen Web Dev: Playing with Python Twisted/Nevow/Athena
July 2nd, 2008 — Internet, Programming
I had the privilege of being introduced to the next generation of bleeding edge web development tools this weekend. This post is mainly about DivMod’s “Nevow” which is a web templating framework, running on Twisted Matrix’s Twisted Webserver and using DivMod’s “Athena” for asynchronous AJAX- and COMET-style browser communications.
If you are familiar with web dev, you may immediately develop a headache on the mentioning of AJAX, but believe me if I say that not only does Nevow not induce migraines, it gets you more and more excited as you realise its potential.
I really cannot properly express how nice it is to work with these tools here, so please take a moment to skim through this (very) short tutorial on creating an AJAX style chat server/client using Athena: http://divmod.org/users/oubiwann/howto/chattutorial/part01/index.html
As a first attempt, I created an AJAX style event notification system: A site is provided with two children: /alerts and /event . When an arbitrary child page of /event is visited, such as /event/anyrandomword, a new event is created with the name “anyrandomword”. Visiting /alerts will display a list of events as they are created IN REAL TIME (without a page refresh) by anybody visiting /event/NewEventName from anywhere.
I recommend you read the source from the bottom up, most of it should be self-explanatory. The python source is available here: myelement.tac.py (About 100 lines without comments). Also required is the javascript source for adding table rows and the nice background fade-in effect: mymodule.js and an xhtml template for the alert form: tabletemplate.html
Here is the complete package, better named, better structured, but without comments: firstattempt.tar
Further Reading:
http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodNevow/Tutorial
http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodNevow/Athena/Tutorials/LiveElement
http://open.thusa.co.za/enamel
RIAA sending abuse reports to IS South Africa
June 13th, 2008 — Internet
A friend of a friend tells me that their ISP forwarded an abuse message to them from the RIAA. Apparently they were downloading a torrent from http://tracker.torrent.to . Obviously the RIAA is monitoring that particular tracker, so beware of torrent.to. Moral of the story: Even if you are in South Africa, the RIAA can still complain to your ISP.
