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manchot. French penguins. (I’m demoing my blogmarks system).

# 28th May 2005, 1:30 am

Greasemonkey: Yet Another Reason to Use Firefox. Great writeup of Greasemonkey on the PC World Techlog(!)

# 27th May 2005, 9:37 pm / firefox, greasemonkey

IBM: ’LAMP’ users need to grow up (via) Which is why Friendster switched from JSP to PHP. Pfft.

# 26th May 2005, 11:41 pm / ibm, lamp

The Rails BetaBook is Ready. Buy the book + beta PDF, get the PDF now and the dead-tree book when it’s finished.

# 26th May 2005, 7:34 pm / rails

Tweaking WordPress With Greasemonkey (via) More application interface enhancements.

# 25th May 2005, 1:11 pm / greasemonkey, wordpress

[pypy-dev] PyPy released! A full Python implementation written in Python.

# 25th May 2005, 12:52 pm / pypy, python

The Web Application Leap. Read this if you care about web applications (or Ajax).

# 24th May 2005, 5:28 pm

Google Maps Hacks at the Factory Tour. “... one of the engineers insinuated that they might be working on a Google Maps API ...”

# 20th May 2005, 3 pm

Mac OS X 10.4: “Erase data on device” is the default first sync option in iSync 2.0 (via) This bug wiped my phone’s address book. Thankfully it’s fixed in 10.4.1.

# 17th May 2005, 5:23 pm

Chicago crime database. Includes a really slick integration of Google Maps.

# 17th May 2005, 4:36 pm

How To Roll Out An Open API. Great advice for producers of web services.

# 13th May 2005, 6:14 pm

Google Answers: Google Florida Update. Oldie but goldie—great SEO advice from December 2003.

# 13th May 2005, 11:48 am

Wired News Releases Source Review. The depressing spyware story I linked to a few months may be inaccurate.

# 12th May 2005, 11:34 pm

Netscape.com (warning: may upset). Holy cow. They’ve redesigned using all Flash. It’s horrifying.

# 12th May 2005, 7:21 pm

Making Wrong Code Look Wrong. How Hungarian notation was misunderstood, and why exceptions reduce collocation and make code harder to debug.

# 12th May 2005, 12:52 pm

Penguin Remixed (via) Spoken word samples, yours for the mixing.

# 12th May 2005, 9:28 am

OS X Network Location support from the command line. Thank you! I’ve been wanting something like this for ages.

# 11th May 2005, 9:24 pm

Representational State Transfer. As usual, Wikipedia has a superb take on a complex and frequently misunderstood topic.

# 11th May 2005, 7:17 pm / wikipedia

BBC Backstage (via) Feeds, APIs, and other geeky stuff. This is really, really good.

# 11th May 2005, 5:11 pm

Why You Should (or Should Not) Use the Yahoo! Music Engine. Engineers are better at marketing than marketing people.

# 11th May 2005, 1:14 pm

Ajaxed out. Scott Andrew reports from the O’Reilly / Adaptive Path Ajax summit.

# 11th May 2005, 9:18 am

Dive Into Greasemonkey. If you’re not in to Greasemonkey yet, now you have no excuse.

# 10th May 2005, 10:50 pm / greasemonkey, mark-pilgrim

Linux event draws in open source luminaries (via) Crikey, I’m a misspelled CSS and JavaScript guru.

# 9th May 2005, 11:50 am

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 / rails

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

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