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Oi Scab!? Strikes at the BBC. Tough times to be working for the Beeb.
What do you think about self-published books? Advice from Tim O’Reilly on self-publishing.
Google Blog: Bird view. It’s nice to see Google publically acknowledging their enthusiastic user community.
Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems using Java, Python, and more (via) Greg Wilson’s Pragmatic Bookshelf book is out.
Could Rails have been built without Ruby? Fascinating essay about how Ruby, like Lisp, lets you build new languages.
Multiline JavaScript shell. My favourite bookmarklet just got even better.
ipfree.py. Works out where an IP is located, on a per-country basis.
Web Browser Standards Support. David Hammond is taking on the thankless task of compiling browser support charts.
Definitive Solution to Image Replacement (?) (via) Uses scary hacks and HTCs, but seems to cover all the bases.
Avalon/XAML First Look (via) Dave Shea is concerned about XAML polluting the web. So am I.
Mozilla XPath Documentation. This is extremely useful for writing Greasemonkey user scripts.
PSP Browser Object Support (via) The PSP’s built-in browser has very basic JavaScript support.
Check Range user script. The bookmarklet master dips his toes in to Greasemonkey.
Lawrence, Kansas: Convergence Capital USA (via) NPR report on my former place of work.
Smart vs. Dumb Templates. Ian argues for smart template languages, because layout isn’t as simple as you think.
zestyping: In the time-wasting hacks department... Ping’s iChat buddy icon now features a sparkline, and rotates over the course of the day.
Howto Generate PDFs in Rails. Use HTMLDoc, PdfWriter or Ruby FPDF.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? I’m pretty much thinking what Chris Applegate is thinking.
Safari WebDevAdditions (via) I haven’t tried these yet, but they look useful.
Continuations for Curmudgeons. They aren’t as scary as you may have been lead to believe.
Benefits (Ftrain.com) (via) This is why the NHS, for all its flaws, is a very very good idea.
Why Greasemonkey is good for publishers (via) Free usability tips and bug fixing—your users know more than you do.
Ruby on Rails and FastCGI: Scaling using processes instead of threads. Relates to the shared-nothing architecture.
Colorization Using Optimization. Holy cow, this is impressive.
Ubuntu 5.04 Release Notes (via) What’s new in Hoary.
See the sights with Google Maps. MetaFilter thread with links to interesting satellite photos on Google Maps.
A Tour of the BBC Film Archive at Windmill Road. Martin Belam continues his streak of fascinating posts about the BBC.
Anabasis: Userscript.org. Jeremy wants feedback on his plans for a userscript directory site.
Geekcheat vi reference mug (via) I want one!