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