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Fixing IE by porting Canvas to Flash
Fixing IE by porting Canvas to Flash. Implementing canvas using Flash is an obvious step, but personally I’m much more interested in an SVG renderer using Flash that finally brings non-animated SVGs to IE.

Practical, maintainable CSS
Practical, maintainable CSS (via) Nat’s posted slides and a video from her latest talk at last week’s Brighton Girl Geeks evening.

Google App Engine - Uploading and Downloading Data
We've been working on a set of tools that will make the process of uploading and downloading data from App Engine applications easier. Today we're excited to announce an early release of our new bulk uploading client. You can try it out here. Let us know what you think in our Google Group!

Yahoo! Query Language thoughts
Yahoo! Query Language thoughts. An engineer on Google’s App Engine provides an expert review of Yahoo!’s YQL. I found this more useful than the official documentation.

YQL opens up 3rd-party web service table definitions to developers
YQL opens up 3rd-party web service table definitions to developers. This really is astonishingly clever: you can create an XML file telling Yahoo!’s YQL service how to map an arbitrary API to YQL tables, then make SQL-style queries against it (including joins against other APIs). Another neat trick: doing a SQL “in” query causes API requests to be run in parallel and recombined before being returned to you.

rev=canonical bookmarklet and designing shorter URLs
A rev="canonical" HTTP Header
I like rev="canonical"