jQuery lightBox plugin is very nice. It doesn't use Prototype or Scriptaculous, but simply jQuery - which is very helpful if a site already uses jQuery. And with the jQuery LightBox Plugin for Wordpress you can easily use it for displaying images in your own blog.
Archive 14. November 2010
Twenty Ten Weaver is a more flexible child theme for Twenty Ten. However, it overloads some of the PHP files from Twenty Ten, so you depend on whether the developer continues to maintain it. But it can customize a lot of things on its own, which I have currently done with my own theme.
Dynamic Widgets | Qurl is a very practical WordPress plugin that enables dynamic rules for widgets. With this, for example, the "latest articles" can be suppressed on the homepage (since they are all there anyway and that would be redundant) and, for example, my Tumblr photos can also be suppressed on gallery pages (so they don't distract from the actual image content - and, for example, black and white photos don't suddenly become colorful just because of Tumblr).
kbhomes's TextCaptchaBreaker shows why text CAPTCHAs are basically bananas. They are often too easy to crack and especially automated - and this code shows a very nice implementation of it. My old blog still has text CAPTCHAs and gets along quite well with them, but that's probably due to the low traffic - in the last few weeks, more and more spam comments have been posted there and I'm not sure if they weren't placed by bots.
Word This - Google Chrome Extension Gallery is very helpful, as Chrome is so stupidly designed that bookmarklets run in the same security context as the current website. This means you have to allow a website to run JavaScript if you want to use a bookmarklet like Wordpress's "Press This". With this extension, blogging moves to its own icon and out of the bookmarks bar.
JLOUIS Ramblings: On Erlang, State and Crashes explains well what the "in case of error, crash" mantra of Erlang is really about - namely the construction of an application as layers of supervisor processes and error handlers. The essential part is the structure of the application - just crashing is not enough, the architecture must also be prepared for it.
atomo - very interesting language, very flexible and compact. I stumbled upon it because someone built a Mongrel2 Adapter for it. What is interesting about atomo for me is that it is yet another new language with prototype-based object orientation. Something that is tried far too rarely (other languages in this area are Slate, Self, Io, Newtonscript and JavaScript).
Also interesting: atomo is embedded in Haskell and thus provides a dynamic scripting language for Haskell environments and of course a good integration into the Haskell world. There was something similar with one of the first Perl6 prototypes, which was also built in Haskell (Pugs).