July 2006
July 28, 2006
Chat rooms could face expulsion—ZDNet. Danah was right about DOPA. This thing’s a catastrophe.
DevjaVu—Free, Simple Hosted Trac and Source Control. Currently in pravite beta. One to watch.
ClickTale. Using Ajax to “spy” on user mouse movements was inevitable.
FRC: Flash-based Rounded Corner. It was only a matter of time...
Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Thank your sysadmin now!
I want my OpenID! Open ID code bounties worth $5,000. Could this kickstart adoption?
July 29, 2006
SVG and XHTML: Like oil and water. Getting the two to mix takes a lot more effort than you might think.
Watching Beirut die (via) A powerful first-hand report from a US film-maker in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Destructuring Assignment with Javascript 1.7. Another useful idiom from Python makes it in to JavaScript.
July 30, 2006
Ezboard gets it wrong again. I had no idea ezboard was written in Smalltalk.
Sam Ruby: REXML on Expat. Sam does something frighteningly clever with continuations.
July 31, 2006
A virus for Windows Vista? Wrong. (via) No Monad in Vista. That was the only feature left that I was interested in.
HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML. Excellent advice, particularly around character encoding.
Thinking XML: Good advice for creating XML (via) Uche Ogbuji’s commentary on the Bozo HOWTO.
Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional. Christian’s book is out. I wrote the foreword.
kr.hub.yahoo.com has the cutest mascot. It’s a tag!
about making things (via) Matt Webb on thinking through making.
Afghanistan 2006—a photoset on Flickr. Ben Hammersley is in Afghanistan.
SpyMedia launches photo bounties and a widget—stillborn in MySpace. The MySpace economy: share-cropping in action.