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Mouseover DOM Inspector v2.0 Help (via) One of my favourite bookmarklets just got even better.

# 9th May 2005, 8:27 am

Spinning teeth. Too bling for words.

# 9th May 2005, 1:16 am

Taking the unsafe GETs out of Rails. A great explanation of the problem, and a decent stab at a solution.

# 9th May 2005, 12:27 am

Sam Ruby: Sincerest Form Of Flattery. How Sam’s funky referral tracking works. I talked to Ping about a similar system at SxSW.

# 9th May 2005, 12:21 am / sam-ruby

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF). Somehow this vulnerability is news to me.

# 6th May 2005, 11:07 pm / csrf, security

URIs, Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET and POST. A comprehensive, if slightly dry, overview of the issue.

# 6th May 2005, 9:45 pm

How to receive emails with Action Mailer in Rails. It’s surprisingly easy. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.

# 4th May 2005, 5:16 pm

Web Essentials 2005. Australia’s brightest and best web conference returns for its second year.

# 4th May 2005, 11:23 am

Parsewiki, a Documentation System Based on ASCII Text. Does a rather good job of converting TaviWiki markup to LaTeX.

# 3rd May 2005, 11:06 pm

Text Search in Rails. Rails extension to add search APIs to your models, based on LIKE queries.

# 3rd May 2005, 7:01 pm

Andy King’s SEO presentation (PDF). One of the few people you really should listen to when it comes to this stuff.

# 3rd May 2005, 4:43 pm

getSelection() Workaround for Safari 1.3 and Firefox 1.0.3. One of those things that’s just handy to know.

# 29th April 2005, 5:42 am / firefox

So, when will KHTML merge all the WebCore changes? (via) Sadly, it seems that cooperation between Safari and Konqueror developers is mostly a myth.

# 29th April 2005, 2:31 am

Adactio Elsewhere (via) Jeremy Keith shows off some of his Ajax / web service API skills.

# 28th April 2005, 10:21 pm

Bumpspark Library-less Minigraphs (via) It’s that neat data:uri hack but for Ruby and without needing an external image library.

# 28th April 2005, 10:19 pm

Firefox Counter. How the Firefox counter works.

# 28th April 2005, 6 pm / firefox, javascript

Lexical Analysis, Python-style (via) Clever trick using named groups in regular expressions.

# 28th April 2005, 3:02 pm

Just Letters (via) Collaborative Flash fridge magnets.

# 28th April 2005, 1:50 pm

Safari passes the Acid2 test. Dave Hyatt runs rings around the rest.

# 28th April 2005, 9:20 am

Political Friendster. Really smart—tracks connections between politicians and institutions.

# 27th April 2005, 11:38 am

The String Memory Gotcha. Insight in to how Java strings work.

# 27th April 2005, 11:36 am

A whole new internet? Cool jobs kill private innovation. Crap jobs encourage it.

# 27th April 2005, 11:30 am

Why every student should own a Mac (via) Michelle Levesque on student laptop culture.

# 26th April 2005, 11:39 pm

iPod Truffle. Andy’s been distracting us from our dissertations.

# 26th April 2005, 10:45 pm

The 1 million download challenge. In which Opera’s CEO attempts to swim the atlantic.

# 26th April 2005, 8:42 pm

Xyle. Kind of like Mozilla’s DOM inspector for Safari.

# 26th April 2005, 8:30 pm

Greasemonkey for personalized accessibility. Why Greasemonkey is the perfect tool for client-side accessibility enhancements.

# 26th April 2005, 7:44 pm / accessibility, greasemonkey

Gecko Info for Windows Accessibility Vendors (via) “This FAQ explains how makers of Windows screen readers, voice dictation packages and magnification software can support Gecko-based software”

# 26th April 2005, 7:42 pm / accessibility

HoverHelp (via) Intelligently implemented JavaScript tool tips.

# 26th April 2005, 11:03 am

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