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blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo! (via) That’s a relief.
The trouble with PHP. This is a good rebuttal to a recent “PHP’s simplicity beats Rails” piece.
del.icio.us: casting the net wider. system: tags are a really neat way of adding specialised tag features.
Rendering Web Page To Images in Gecko. New feature involving the canvas API, coming soon. Tons of potential.
Joe Clark: @media2005. Comprehensive notes on all(?) the sessions.
@Media 2005 report (via) Mike Davies (Isofarro) has some great @media session notes.
Walcot Nation Day 2005. My photos from Bath’s annual eccentric street festival.
Financial Times Using Link Spam. Google should publically drop them from their index, then reinstate them when the link spam is removed.
No New Command Line for Longhorn (via) There goes the only remaining Longhorn feature I was interested in.
Ruby on Rails, and the Rails Beta Book. The comments include a good discussion of the pros and cons of Rails’ code-in-templates approach.
Magic Microformat Forms Redux, Now with GreaseMonkey! Les Orchard gets in to Greasemonkey—with accompanying screencast.
Baby Weasel. Unfeasibly adorable. There is no reason for this post.
Workplace absuridities as phone support for a DSL ISP. Greasemonkey used to fix web application leads to misguided Firefox ban.
The BBC News website—under the bonnet (via) SSIs, Apache, Linux (and Solaris) and two server farms.
Bookmarklets to User Scripts. A user script to turn bookmarklets in to user scripts.
This week’s UK television. Includes unofficial XML feeds scraped from various sources.
CSV channel listings. Each number is the name of a .dat file containing listings for that channel.
BBC 1 listings in CSV. Listings for the next two weeks
Google Maps Make Demographics Come Alive (via) Great photo of Adrian lurking behind his laptop.
Google Maps takedown notice (via) Why can’t all takedown notices be this polite?
The WebKit Open Source Project (via) The Safari team’s full CVS history, and more. Should hopefully improve their relationship with KTHML.
Principles of visibility and human friendliness. Tantek makes an excellent argument that visible metadata works better than invisible metadata.
Drip: IE Leak Detector. Fantastic!
Google Blog: Webmaster-friendly. Google Sitemaps are XML files that webmasters can use to ensure pages on their site are crawled.
Google Code: Summer of Code. “Google will provide a $4500 award to each student who successfully completes an open source project by the end of the Summer.”
Google Translator: The Universal Language (via) Their new approach to translation is utterly brilliant.
Trixie: Greasemonkey for IE (via) Second attempt—but it’s still closed source.
IBM poop heads say LAMP users need to “grow up”. Ryan blows away a ton of the myths surrounding LAMP.
Nope. We call bullshit. After wasting years of our lives trying to implement physical three tier architectures that "scale" and failing miserably time after time, we're going with something that actually works.
[Greasemonkey] a difference in vision. Check out the last paragraph. I got a kick out of it.
XHTML2: Accessible, Usable, Device Independent and Semantic (via) XHTML2 looks pretty smart. I’ll be amazed if it ever takes off though.