links for 2008-07-28

Among the technologies adding brainpower to the grid are nascent wireless protocols like ZigBee; Z-Wave from Zensys; and Echelon’s LonWorks, which tracks power use not only wirelessly but also over power lines.

This is the first part of my series on using and applying best practices to your Flex development process. This article will focus on best practices for setting up your Flex project.

Reddit clone in 300 lines of pure web2py code / immense scalability!

So many of you asked, so here is the reddish (http://
web2py.appspot.com) source code (GPL2): http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/web/reddish.tar

Big Blue said it will combine ILOG’s software with its business process management software and service oriented architecture technology (statement). The $340 million price tag is a 37 percent premium from ILOG’s closing price Friday.

96 of the Best Ever Free Icon Sets – For Web Designers, Developers and Bloggers

we call a function, e.g. versioned_css(“main”). In this function we append the git hash (git-hash-object filename) to the filename, before the extension, caching the result