Google Launches Its Own JavaScript Library CDN

Google just launched it's AJAX Libraries API. This is great news for the smaller, independent libraries but with Dojo already being hosted by AOL this move would seem to actually hurt their ability to optimize client caching by splintering deployment. I imagine the Dojo team is supporting this so maybe they know AOL is a horrible company with deplorable customer relations and an even worse environmental track record something I don't.

Because You're Smarter Than XML

While developing Atom Syndication support for the new site I started to get fed up (ha!) with the standard methods of XML generation in Python. Obtuse and verbose, the number of lines of code it took to generate a simple feed grew to an order of magnitude greater then the number of lines it took to serve that same feed. I wanted something a little less error prone and a little more convenient than string manipulation, but I didn't need any sort of validation or schema support or any of the other things that make the standard XML libraries "smart". The end result was StupidXML, a genuinely "stupid" XML generation library. I've put the code up on Google Code in case someone else will find it useful, let me know if you find any bugs!