Wishful Coding

Didn't you ever wish your
computer understood you?

Three good reasons to run a Webkit Nightly

  1. You get to use the latest an coolest features around.
  2. You can try out my 3D CSS browser game, which is finally online.
  3. You can see this wacky CSS endless zoom effect, and other beautiful show-offs.
No, seriously... You might not need it for daily web usage, but if you are a developer, it's fun! Get it at webkit.org, even the nightly is more reliable than IE6. I'm using it right now to write this.
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How to install Python/web.py on a shared host

In the past I have written a few Python web applications, but when I asked my host about Python, they told me they where specialized in PHP and nothing but PHP(that is why this site runs Wordpress). If your are lucky and have a very expensive dedicated server you can install whatever you want, but how about my poor projects? I'm not going to re-write them in PHP obviously. I figured that as long as you have a CGI bin, you can do whatever you want. I started writing a CGI script that would install Python and Web.py for me; Check out the resulting web.py example. This is the script that I came up with. It should be doable to customize this for Pylons, TurboGears, Django, or any other Python framework. You should at least fill in your own home directory twice, we're doing a Python installation inside you home directory. 
#!/bin/sh

echo "Content-type: text/html

";

curl http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tgz | tar -zx
cd Python-2.6.4
./configure --prefix=/your/home/directory #change this to your home
make
make install
cd ..
curl http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/dist/flup-1.0.2.tar.gz | tar -zx
cd flup-1.0.2
/your/home/directory/bin/python setup.py install
cd ..
curl http://webpy.org/static/web.py-0.33.tar.gz | tar -zx
cp -r web.py-0.33/web .
Note that you should add .py as a CGI handler in your .htaccess file: 
AddHandler cgi-script .py
Since our fresh Python installation is not on the PATH variable, you should include a shebang header in your scripts to point to the right path: 
#!/your/home/directory/bin/python
Again, check the result!
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How to navigate the browser ballot screen

How to navigate the browser ballot screen This is my response to the EU/Microsoft browser ballot screen. Honestly, most people don't even know what their browser is, what do you think the difference in IE market share will be? http://xkcd.com/627/ also applies here. I recommend any of the five except IE. In case you're wondering, I'm using Safari.
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