Too damn nice to be inside. I’m out!
Two words: Hell. Yes. Visit site »
Southwest Airlines started flying slower about two months ago, and projects it will save $42 million in fuel this year by extending each flight by one to three minutes.
Wow, insane. And awesome. Visit site »
An interesting video of synchronization of five coupled metronomes in Lancaster University. Trust me, it’s more interesting than it sounds. Visit site »
Simon talks about some of the killer features of the Django ORM, including chaining and laziness. For what its worth, I love the Django ORM and virtually never write a line of SQL because of it. I know a lot of people complain that it’s not as robust as SQL Alchemy, but for my needs, it’s perfect. It’s easy to use, and I’ve only run into one situation I couldn’t handle with it (and, Django gives you the ability to write straight SQL, when you do run into that situation). Visit site »
Kohi opines that design doesn’t scale well to larger teams, and suggests that if a design team is larger than “a dozen or two,” things start to get dicey. I’m sure there are exceptions to this, but in general, I think he’s right. Design is best practiced by small teams. Visit site »
You enter your Twitter username, it gives you a list of people you probably should be following. Worked remarkably well, for me. via Zeldman. Visit site »
Happy Birthday @dotsara! :)