Clearout

Tristan Louis’ RSS to Necho convertor puts paid to the idea that the success of one format will be detrimental to the usefulness of the other.
O’Reilly’s RegExp Power series (part one and part two) demonstrate some powerful tricks for use with Perl compatible regular expressions.
Norman Walsh explains Content Negotiation and some of the pitfalls with modern browser implementations.
So that’s what happened to Digitiser. See also a Digitiser Tribute and a Mr Biffo interview from 2001 for background information. I cuss you bad.
George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
Clay Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy. The title is misguiding; this is an essay about how online groups behave and how to look after them.
A Java HttpClient Class.
Some good stuff on Boxes and Arrows: Ten Quotable Moments: Challenges and Responses for UI Designers and Views and Forms: Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications (Part 1).
Inside our notions of “document” and Inside our documents II—the Runoff model.
5 days worth of XSLT observations from Simon St. Laurent: One, Two, Three, Four, Five.
Windows programming with open source tools: Minimalist GNU For Windows and Win32 Programming with GNU C and C++.

Posted 10th July 2003 at 1:52 pm

4 comments

The new GameCentral isn't that bad a replacement. Good game coverage, but nowhere near as funny. Did I say funny? I meant gin. Anyway, for real "lovers" there's always http://www.moleman.freeserve.co.uk/ and Biffo writes articles for Edge (page 28 and press "reveal") every month. The MinGW is pretty good, I use it all the time at work. "use it" - do you see?
Phil Wilson - 10th July 2003 15:14 - #
And I should have read those posting instructions. I cuss you bad.
No, really. :)
Phil Wilson - 10th July 2003 15:17 - #
You'll be interested in this then: Digiworld!

Moc-moc-a-moc, indeed.

Biffo was also quite a regular poster on the Edge forums (now closed, but most of the regulars moved to rllmUK) and is now writing for Eastenders, among other things!

insin - 10th July 2003 17:57 - #
I find it hilarious that Mr Biffo is now writing for EastEnders, after all those spoof scripts he used to write about the show on Digi! I still miss Digitiser, especially after a trip down Nostalgia Crescent today on the Inter-Web Highway. Biffo was/is a genius, and his irreverent style certainly left its mark on me.
James - 8th August 2003 20:03 - #

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