links for 2007-07-25

• Blasting the Myth of the Fold (Boxes and Arrows)
  It seems that webdesigners can worry less about the fold in a webpage. This piece is backed up with serious research into this matter. One of the interesting points is that beyond the fold the advertising space might be more valuable.
  (tags: design research usability webdesign fold)
• Scratch makes programming like playing with LEGO bricks (Arstechnica)
  This is so cool, it’s programming like ‘lego mindstorms’ for children (actually made by the people from mindstorms. We should harness such power to make programming available to, e.g, account managers to configure services for customers.
  (tags: development programming kids services automagic)
• Django Master Class
  Wonderful handouts for a Django Masterclass given by the trio Jeremy Dunck, Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Simon Willison. Very very nice addition to the Django tutorial.
  (tags: django ajax webdev python forms newforms openid tutorial)
• A bumper crop of new mashup platforms (Enterprise Web 2.0)
  Wonderful overview of 17 (automagic) mashup toolkits, frameworks or whatchamacallits. The article starts with a discussion about the maturity of theses platforms. (real integration, user friendliness, IT story, enterprise security)
  (tags: automagic enterprise mashups web2.0 google soa development architecture)