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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.
Chicago crime database. Includes a really slick integration of Google Maps.
Wired News: Firefox Users Monkey With the Web. Greasemonkey on Wired—and I get quoted!
How To Roll Out An Open API. Great advice for producers of web services.
Google Answers: Google Florida Update. Oldie but goldie—great SEO advice from December 2003.
Wired News Releases Source Review. The depressing spyware story I linked to a few months may be inaccurate.
Netscape.com (warning: may upset). Holy cow. They’ve redesigned using all Flash. It’s horrifying.
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong. How Hungarian notation was misunderstood, and why exceptions reduce collocation and make code harder to debug.
Penguin Remixed (via) Spoken word samples, yours for the mixing.
OS X Network Location support from the command line. Thank you! I’ve been wanting something like this for ages.
Representational State Transfer. As usual, Wikipedia has a superb take on a complex and frequently misunderstood topic.
BBC Backstage (via) Feeds, APIs, and other geeky stuff. This is really, really good.
Why You Should (or Should Not) Use the Yahoo! Music Engine. Engineers are better at marketing than marketing people.
Ajaxed out. Scott Andrew reports from the O’Reilly / Adaptive Path Ajax summit.
Dive Into Greasemonkey. If you’re not in to Greasemonkey yet, now you have no excuse.
Linux event draws in open source luminaries (via) Crikey, I’m a misspelled CSS and JavaScript guru.
Mouseover DOM Inspector v2.0 Help (via) One of my favourite bookmarklets just got even better.
Spinning teeth. Too bling for words.
Taking the unsafe GETs out of Rails. A great explanation of the problem, and a decent stab at a solution.
Sam Ruby: Sincerest Form Of Flattery. How Sam’s funky referral tracking works. I talked to Ping about a similar system at SxSW.
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF). Somehow this vulnerability is news to me.
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.