Link dump: August 8, 2006

Yahoo! Python Developer Center

Yahoo adds snakes on an API (Via Jeremy Zawodny, and as you can see, I jacked his post title.)

MySQL Connection Management in PHP – How (Not) To Do Things

How to best use MySQL connections when developing with PHP. (Hint, only make the connection when necessary.) This post covers ‘lazy loading’ and content caching. There’s also a patch to tweak the way WordPress handles MySQL connections.

Caching techinques

Methods and potential uses of four dynamically generated content caching techniques.

Welcome to the Anti-Social Club

Several major marketers are, without fanfare, running invitation-only online communities where they can bounce ideas off their best (or worst) customers, sample broad cultural attitudes and spread word-of-mouth advocacy. (Via Attention Max)

Leopard Sneak Peek

What’s coming in the next version of the Mac OS.