Well, Smashing Magazine's Anthony T calls these innovative techniques, I would rather call them "stops complicating my shit" techniques to improve signup/login process on a website. These simple methods go a long way in simplifying a some important things and removing certain conventions which web developers have come to accept as standard even though they may not be contributing as much as they are thought. Also do not forget to check out the related Hacker News discussion

Raspberry Pi is a whole computer on a tiny circuit board - not much more than an ARM processor, a USB port, and an HDMI connection. Plug a keyboard into one end, and hook the other into a TV.

Have you been putting off using Git because it seems confusing? Do all the guides and turorials you have been going through confirm your doubts? Not any more. Here is "The Git Introduction" we all have been searching for. Instead of going on and on about the commands, this tutorial actually concentrates on how Git manages things without overwhelming one's senses. Go through it and it will be a cake walk after that.

The argparse module was added to Python 2.7 as a replacement for optparse. The implementation of argparse supports features that would not have been easy to add to optparse, and that would have required backwards-incompatible API changes, so a new module was brought into the library instead. optparse is still supported, but is not likely to receive new features.