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URIs, Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET and POST. A comprehensive, if slightly dry, overview of the issue.
How to receive emails with Action Mailer in Rails. It’s surprisingly easy. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.
Web Essentials 2005. Australia’s brightest and best web conference returns for its second year.
Parsewiki, a Documentation System Based on ASCII Text. Does a rather good job of converting TaviWiki markup to LaTeX.
Text Search in Rails. Rails extension to add search APIs to your models, based on LIKE queries.
Andy King’s SEO presentation (PDF). One of the few people you really should listen to when it comes to this stuff.
getSelection() Workaround for Safari 1.3 and Firefox 1.0.3. One of those things that’s just handy to know.
So, when will KHTML merge all the WebCore changes? (via) Sadly, it seems that cooperation between Safari and Konqueror developers is mostly a myth.
Adactio Elsewhere (via) Jeremy Keith shows off some of his Ajax / web service API skills.
Bumpspark Library-less Minigraphs (via) It’s that neat data:uri hack but for Ruby and without needing an external image library.
Firefox Counter. How the Firefox counter works.
Lexical Analysis, Python-style (via) Clever trick using named groups in regular expressions.
Just Letters (via) Collaborative Flash fridge magnets.
Exploding toads baffle Germans. Fantastic.
Safari passes the Acid2 test. Dave Hyatt runs rings around the rest.
Political Friendster. Really smart—tracks connections between politicians and institutions.
The String Memory Gotcha. Insight in to how Java strings work.
A whole new internet? Cool jobs kill private innovation. Crap jobs encourage it.
Why every student should own a Mac (via) Michelle Levesque on student laptop culture.
iPod Truffle. Andy’s been distracting us from our dissertations.
The 1 million download challenge. In which Opera’s CEO attempts to swim the atlantic.
Xyle. Kind of like Mozilla’s DOM inspector for Safari.
Greasemonkey for personalized accessibility. Why Greasemonkey is the perfect tool for client-side accessibility enhancements.
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”
Who is using random.org? The user testimonials are pretty, well, random.
random.org (via) True random numbers, with entropy provided by a radio tuned to white noise.
New Values for a New Age of Journalism. The news industry would be so much smarter if they followed this advice.
Quittin’ time. Matt May is leaving the W3C—and seeking an interesting new job.
Sparklines in data URIs in Python. A neat hack with data: URIs and the Python Imaging Library.