Read in the Net in April 2009

Using OAuth for authentication is quite different then using Basic Auth in many ways, first major difference is that one don’t know the username until it is requested from twitter after completing the authentication process.

Great article on the benefits of cloud computing.

Social networking — whether it be Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter or something else — is fast becoming a way of life for millions of people to share information about themselves for personal or business reasons. But it comes with huge risks that range from identity theft to malware infections to the potential for letting reckless remarks damage corporate and personal reputations.

Generic storages for Django: S3 storage ImageStorage OverwriteStorage MogileFSStorage FTPStorage Database storage

Vorgehensmodelle zum Softwareentwicklungsprozess empfehlen Richtlinien für Rollen (Verantwortlichkeiten), Phasen, Aufgaben, Aktivitäten, Methoden und Dokumente (Artefakte, Arbeitsergebnisse).

Der Grandseigneur des feinen Humors gibt ungern Interviews. Nun, da Loriot mit dem Ehrenpreis der Deutschen Filmakademie ausgezeichnet wird, ließ er sich ein auf ein Gespräch über seine Liebe zum Kino, sein Faible für Genauigkeit, die Last der Jahre - und schlechte Erfahrungen beim stern.

Jeder wird Twitter und seine Möglichkeiten auf seine eigene Weise nutzen. Viele Programme und Webseiten vereinfachen oder multiplizieren die Möglichkeiten. Weil ihr alle Zeit verdienen und sie nicht durch Suchen vergeuden möchtet, ist hier eine Auswahl der besten Twitter-Tools.

Reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities.

So, as we try to make our designs on the Web more natural, moving and intuitive, a good understanding of light and shadow is pretty important. Here are 5 ways to better use light and shadow to polish your page designs and make them stand out on the screen.

SynContact synchronizes contacts between your outlook 2007 and multiple gmail accounts. Once you install it, add your gmail target accounts via Tools>Contact Synchorinzation>Sync Settings. Use "Sync Now" to do th contact sync. Additionally there is Resolve Duplicate option to remove duplicates.

SysML is a general purpose modeling language for systems engineering applications. It is a dialect of UML™, the industry standard for modeling software-intensive systems. It supports the specification, analysis, design, verification and validation of a broad range of systems and systems-of-systems. These systems may include hardware, software, information, processes, personnel, and facilities.

This snippet display a human readable date diff. You give it the your date in parameter and the diff with datetime.datetime.now() is returned. The diff must be positive to be more accurate (future dates are not supported). Will give something like: less than 1 minute ago 13 minutes ago 1 hour ago etc.