Great interview with Eric Costello of Ludicorp (or is it yahoo?) and glish on the history of Flickr, its wild growth, the reasoning behind the move from a Flash front end to a JavaScript driven one, and a bit about the interesting development processes used when designing new features for the site.

They also covered Ludicorp’s earlier project, Game Neverending, which I had a ton of fun with and kind of wish still had life.

Eric is also co-author on Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation a book which I was glad to have tech reviewed for the publisher, Glasshaus.

O’Reilly Connections is a recently launched social network style jobs and professional contacts app. For those that know me and are inclined to sign up or track me down for a gig, here’s my profile.

An old acquaintance, Cameron Barret, and his brother are trying to get selected to be on the Amazing Race. Yeah, yeah, so what, why bother posting…

Well, to try and get some support and stand out from the rest of the pack they’ve gone and made a web site at BloggerTwins their progress, complete with a promotional video of the two jokers, and of course, a blog.

Will it work, dunno, but best of luck to them both.

I guess I should probably add something here that’s funny enough to get quoted on the site’s testimonials list, but I haven’t had my coffee yet. Oh well.

… and I’m not talking about more IE rumors. Been meaning to mention a few packages being released recently, and haven’t gotten to it so here’s a bit of a wrap up.

Mochikit 0.60, a nice lightweight JavaScript library was released at the end of last month. Though a new library its well on its way to becoming a solid set of tools covering everything from DOM manipulation to AJAX requests. Some tutorials and good docs available at the site.

Textpattern 1.0RC5, the software this site and many others run on (though I’ve hacked it up just a tad, hehe) has been posted and it looks like its well on its way to an official 1.0final.

And not as new, but I’ll be having a bit more time interacting with it and perhaps writing extensions for it eventually, I thought I’d bring up Lussumo’s Vanilla Forum package.

UPDATE: Mochikit 0.70 Released

Another month and another update to both the ChunkySoup.net Zeitgeist and the PNH Zeitgeist based on hits from July… Not a ton of movement on the usage from month to month, although the general trend of IE slowly slipping continues.

Award for best UA String for the month of July:

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HFHTTHHHGGGJJTJJGFTSDTHDTTJJYJYJYTYRREQQERYTK,,J,JFJ,HJ

J,J,JJJJJKJHGHGHGGHKHJHJHGFGFXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXsdgdgdgasbdsdgdsgfdnbmgfhg56

Award for worst UA String for the month:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 5.0; Mac_PPC)

Feel so sorry for whoever is on the other end of that connection.