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Friendster goes PHP (via) Notable performance improvement over the old JSP/Tomcat setup.
Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog (via) The first Fortune 500 board member with a weblog?
San Francisco Photos, June 2004 (via) Photos from my trip to San Francisco.
Zeldman on why drop down menus suck. Good for pointing people to.
Developing a URL structure for broadcast radio sites... Anally-retentive URL design. Love it!
PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss (via) Fixing some very funky behaviour in PHP’s XML parser.
Developing With Web Standards (via) Next time someone asks you about standards, point them to this.
Coalition: Vast Majority Of Iraqis Still Alive. So at least there’s some good news...
FCKeditor—The text editor for Internet (via) Looks like the best cross-browser rich text editor package yet (LGPL).
Accessing your Gmail inbox with Python. Adrian’s ultra-cool, TOS-violating gmail hack.
Dynamically underlining accesskeys (via) Nifty DHTML.
Microsoft Research DRM talk. Cory tells MS why they should sit out on DRM.
The IE team’s Group Program Manager speaks (via) Comment on Channel 9, emphasizes importance of backwards compatibility.
Linus vs. Tanenbaum (via) Linux vs. MINIX back in 1992.
Firefox Extension: Bookmarks Synchronizer (via) Very, very cool. Syncs bookmarks via an FTP server.
Colour me Spammy. Smart tip from Drew on sending bulk emails using Unix.
The Observer Pattern in Python (via) Makes smart use of weak references.
MediaSavvy (via) Excellent Online News industry insight.
Joel on Software—How Microsoft Lost the API War. Read it through for a fascinating conclusion.
Survey: 2 million bank accounts robbed (via) Phishing works.
A rule to highlight replies to messages sent in Mail (via) A superb Mac hack.
A Response to the League of Women Voters (via) Voting machine FAQ debunked.
Bruce vs. Bruce (via) Schneier and Sterling discuss security and technology.
If newspaper Web sites aren’t like blogs, at least they’re not like Fox News. The FoxNews.com redesign looks “like a porn site without the tits”.
Creating a Pullquote with Javascript (via) This is a smart approach. It eliminates pull-quote redundancy by automatically creating the pull-quote from inline flagged content.
Lights Up! (via) Lighting balloons for the film industry. These things look awesome!
’Game’: Fun with databases. Adrian discusses our latest site launch.
Writing Code Is Stupid (via) Argues that the future for many applications lies in code generation.
Understanding ASP.NET View State (via) I still think it’s a revolting hack.
The Internet: ’A Dirty Mess’ (via) This time it’s Bruce Sterling highlighting the darker side of cyberspace.