Now, if they'd finally land aggregation support, I'd be totally happy with Django 1.0!

Turns out, there's really no technical reason for not having iPhone support on Windows XP 64, unless you have a phobia of editing MSI files with Orca. Here's an excellent write-up.

I wish I could be there :-).

The RFC has been accepted and the code is in PHP's trunk. Well, it was about time, right?

Of course, PHP will still helpfully truncate your 64-bit database id columns by converting them into floating point numbers, if you're using a PHP version compiled on a 32-bit system, but of course not on a 64-bit system, because it wouldn't be PHP if it behaved the same on two random computers. But now you will be able to do that with real up-to-date, all-the-hype scripting language style in PHP 6.0 ;-).

Django

Large file uploads: Revision 7814 finally lands the patch from ticket 2070 and finally allows Django to handle arbitrarily-sized file-uploads.

Ruby's security vulnerabilities

Man, I'm late to that particular party, but some serious vulnerabilities have been found in the main Ruby interpreter. Unfortunately it seems that the official maintainers messed up as well and only 3^rd-party patches are available right now, because there's no known stable release code in the codebase that a quick patch release could be based off.

I think the most important lesson that can be learned from this, as Simon Willison points out, is that you need to keep release tags around in your SCM system, but also that you should never blindly trust any part of a system. At least it makes me wonder what surprises lurk in the Java VM or CPython.

Diablo III

Has been announced. Userfriendly pretty much hits the nail on the head.

I have to say that I'm really impressed with it. There's a project (the Ajax Toolkit Framework) in Eclipse incubation that promises to provide pretty much the same capabilities for Eclipse, but it's not there yet. ActiveState's Komodo has some good support, but it's not really free (there's a free version without debugging support).

The only problem left now is that Netbeans' is missing a widely advertised Python plug-in, so I don't know if good Python support is available, but if it is, then it would be enough reason to leave Eclipse+Pydev behind. I'll try JPyDbg and see if I get anywhere.

One more reason to support Obama for America: he wants to build a database that lets every citizen, every news outlet and anyone else track every dollar that goes through congress. Well, of course, it probably would miss a huge chunk of "secret money", but it would be a step in the right direction.

Germany is currently missing from the report, though.

This is one area where direct access means: having access to a lot of information that falls through the cracks, because CNN would never report on it, or the New York Times would never print it. It seems that we have again stumbled upon something that can be disintermediated by the internet. I, for one, would love to hear the spin that the campaigns put on recent events without the additional spin and filters that the main-stream media put on it when they decide what to report. Simply because I

• care a lot about politics and

• more importantly: it's an area where in my opinion the media has time and again proven that they don't serve society in any kind of meaningful way besides dumbing down the process

In particular, listening to the one recording from the Clinton campaign that Dave has put online so far, the key difference is that the campaign perceives the journalists as intelligent people and talk to them like they are. What a huge change to their normal mode of communication that is. I'm anxious to hear the new recordings that Dave put up on Pownce today (no need to check, though, they're private items). He also said that there will be a public RSS feed with enclosures soon, because he found a media partner that will provide the recordings.

I hope! I sincerely hope that something similar can be established in Germany in time for the next elections. I would have loved to have this kind of information back in 2005 when Angela Merkel became chancellor.