Tuesday, 5th July 2005
Object.prototype is verboten. This is a problem with the popular Prototype library.
11:53 am
More Unicode Secrets. Uche expands on some more unicode tricks with Python.
11:54 am
Obsoletely Famous. Replacing old tutorials with new ones.
11:55 am
AJAXSLT on code.google.com. A pure JavaScript XPath and XSLT implementation. With a really silly name.
11:57 am
The state of accessibility in the real world. Screen readers are tricker beasts than you may have imagined.
11:58 am
script.aculo.us—web 2.0 javascript. A pretty impressive collection of modern JavaScript tricks.
12:01 pm
Salted Hash Login Generator for Rails. I’ve used the precursor to this, Login Generator, to good effect.
12:02 pm
Prototype Effect.Flash. Richard’s been hacking around with Prototype.
12:04 pm
Handling International Text with Unicode in Python. A nice straight forward recipe from the Python Cookbook.
12:05 pm
View formatted source extension for Firefox (via) I haven’t tried this yet, but apparently it’s a big improvement.
12:14 pm
Those darn wikis. Why the LA Times wikitorial failed.
12:14 pm
2005 Underhanded C Contest. Write code that looks innocent but does something evil.
12:15 pm
Safari RSS databases in Mac OS X Tiger. You can query them using sqlite3—and there are (unintended?) easter eggs.
12:35 pm
PHPXMLRPC Library Remote Code Execution (via) IXR is not affected by this vulnerability.
3:21 pm
























