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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.

# 10th June 2005, 5:22 pm / rails

Magic Microformat Forms Redux, Now with GreaseMonkey! Les Orchard gets in to Greasemonkey—with accompanying screencast.

# 9th June 2005, 11:18 pm / greasemonkey, les-orchard, microformats

Baby Weasel. Unfeasibly adorable. There is no reason for this post.

# 9th June 2005, 11:03 pm

Workplace absuridities as phone support for a DSL ISP. Greasemonkey used to fix web application leads to misguided Firefox ban.

# 9th June 2005, 11:01 pm / greasemonkey

The BBC News website—under the bonnet (via) SSIs, Apache, Linux (and Solaris) and two server farms.

# 9th June 2005, 10:01 pm

Bookmarklets to User Scripts. A user script to turn bookmarklets in to user scripts.

# 9th June 2005, 5:14 pm

This week’s UK television. Includes unofficial XML feeds scraped from various sources.

# 9th June 2005, 5:12 pm

CSV channel listings. Each number is the name of a .dat file containing listings for that channel.

# 9th June 2005, 5:11 pm

BBC 1 listings in CSV. Listings for the next two weeks

# 9th June 2005, 5:10 pm

Google Maps Make Demographics Come Alive (via) Great photo of Adrian lurking behind his laptop.

# 9th June 2005, 12:39 am

Google Maps takedown notice (via) Why can’t all takedown notices be this polite?

# 9th June 2005, 12:38 am

The WebKit Open Source Project (via) The Safari team’s full CVS history, and more. Should hopefully improve their relationship with KTHML.

# 7th June 2005, 10:27 am

Principles of visibility and human friendliness. Tantek makes an excellent argument that visible metadata works better than invisible metadata.

# 4th June 2005, 8:20 pm / tantek-celik

Google Blog: Webmaster-friendly. Google Sitemaps are XML files that webmasters can use to ensure pages on their site are crawled.

# 3rd June 2005, 11:33 am

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.”

# 31st May 2005, 7:36 pm

Google Translator: The Universal Language (via) Their new approach to translation is utterly brilliant.

# 31st May 2005, 7:23 pm

Trixie: Greasemonkey for IE (via) Second attempt—but it’s still closed source.

# 31st May 2005, 7:15 pm / greasemonkey, internet-explorer

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.

# 30th May 2005, 9:34 am / ibm, lamp, ryan-tomayko

[Greasemonkey] a difference in vision. Check out the last paragraph. I got a kick out of it.

# 29th May 2005, 10:49 pm / greasemonkey

XHTML2: Accessible, Usable, Device Independent and Semantic (via) XHTML2 looks pretty smart. I’ll be amazed if it ever takes off though.

# 29th May 2005, 10:24 pm

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

Years

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