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Great Hackers. “Of all the great programmers I can think of, I know of only one who would voluntarily program in Java. And of all the great programmers I can think of who don’t work for Sun, on Java, I know of zero.”

# 29th July 2004, 3:01 am

SCPlugin (via) Subversion plugin for the Finder.

# 29th July 2004, 1:08 am / macos, subversion

HTTP Caching & Cache-Busting for Content Publishers (via) I learnt a lot from this—especially the no-cookie domain stuff.

# 29th July 2004, 12:45 am / http

Implementing XHTML 2.0 (via) Client side behaviour hacks have serious disadvantages.

# 28th July 2004, 8:38 pm / xhtml

World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools. The WikiPedia take on legalised child abduction and imprisonment.

# 28th July 2004, 12:55 am / wikipedia

Dean outfoxes Hannity! Good to see Outfoxed is making an impact.

# 27th July 2004, 10:41 pm

Conventions over configuration. Making things flexible by convention.

# 27th July 2004, 9:31 pm

Throwing Tables Out the Window (via) Doug Bowman: “There’s no longer any reason to use tables for layout”.

# 27th July 2004, 6:52 pm

pMock: a mock object library for Python (via) This should add quite a bit of flexibility to standard unit testing.

# 27th July 2004, 4:32 am

Barclaycard dumps Mac users (via) Two weeks old and already in the Google top 10 for ’Barclaycard’.

# 27th July 2004, 1:31 am

wordlog.com (via) “WordPress news from around the web”

# 26th July 2004, 8:58 pm

Sorry, you can’t do that. Poor Windows XP usability.

# 26th July 2004, 7:36 pm

“My Beef With Big Media” by Ted Turner (via) Ted Turner speaks out against media consolidation.

# 26th July 2004, 3:44 pm

WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language / (via) Wouldn’t you know it, there’s a power curve at work.

# 26th July 2004, 3:14 pm

New features in Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (via) Thunderbird is getting an RSS reader.

# 26th July 2004, 3:08 pm / mozilla

Show of Hands. Or maybe IE users just don’t like to admit to it?

# 25th July 2004, 11:47 pm

The Internet Has Spoken. Remarkably dumb CNN poll.

# 25th July 2004, 10:49 pm

Rands In Repose: Messy Thinking. I want a cinema screen too :(

# 25th July 2004, 10:46 pm

NanoBlogger (via) A weblog system written in bash.

# 25th July 2004, 10:43 pm

What if Mozilla were to win in the end? (via) Evidently bloggers and IE don’t really mix.

# 25th July 2004, 8:12 pm / mozilla

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