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Developing With Web Standards (via) Next time someone asks you about standards, point them to this.

# 26th June 2004, 10:55 pm

Coalition: Vast Majority Of Iraqis Still Alive. So at least there’s some good news...

# 25th June 2004, 8:22 pm

FCKeditor—The text editor for Internet (via) Looks like the best cross-browser rich text editor package yet (LGPL).

# 19th June 2004, 12:37 am

Accessing your Gmail inbox with Python. Adrian’s ultra-cool, TOS-violating gmail hack.

# 18th June 2004, 11:25 pm

Microsoft Research DRM talk. Cory tells MS why they should sit out on DRM.

# 18th June 2004, 4:51 pm

The IE team’s Group Program Manager speaks (via) Comment on Channel 9, emphasizes importance of backwards compatibility.

# 17th June 2004, 5:45 pm

Linus vs. Tanenbaum (via) Linux vs. MINIX back in 1992.

# 17th June 2004, 5:07 pm

Firefox Extension: Bookmarks Synchronizer (via) Very, very cool. Syncs bookmarks via an FTP server.

# 17th June 2004, 4:36 pm / firefox

Colour me Spammy. Smart tip from Drew on sending bulk emails using Unix.

# 17th June 2004, 12:53 am

The Observer Pattern in Python (via) Makes smart use of weak references.

# 16th June 2004, 11:55 pm / python

MediaSavvy (via) Excellent Online News industry insight.

# 16th June 2004, 11:46 pm

Joel on Software—How Microsoft Lost the API War. Read it through for a fascinating conclusion.

# 16th June 2004, 11:43 pm

Bruce vs. Bruce (via) Schneier and Sterling discuss security and technology.

# 15th June 2004, 10:04 pm / bruce-schneier, bruce-sterling, security

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”.

# 15th June 2004, 8:19 pm

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.

# 13th June 2004, 12:58 am

Lights Up! (via) Lighting balloons for the film industry. These things look awesome!

# 13th June 2004, 12:07 am / film

’Game’: Fun with databases. Adrian discusses our latest site launch.

# 12th June 2004, 12:14 am / adrian-holovaty

Writing Code Is Stupid (via) Argues that the future for many applications lies in code generation.

# 11th June 2004, 9:12 pm

Understanding ASP.NET View State (via) I still think it’s a revolting hack.

# 11th June 2004, 9:11 pm

The Internet: ’A Dirty Mess’ (via) This time it’s Bruce Sterling highlighting the darker side of cyberspace.

# 11th June 2004, 9:09 pm

Employee #3201234954. youngpup joins the collective.

# 11th June 2004, 5:12 pm

PyObjC 1.1 (and move to subversion). “Because it is a Subversion repository, that same URL can be used to browser the source, checkout the source via Subversion, or mount the PyObjC repository in the Finder and copy out any branch, tag or the trunk by simple drag-n-drop.”

# 11th June 2004, 6:53 am / macos, pyobjc, subversion

Catching web standards. Web standards can be sexually transmitted!

# 11th June 2004, 6:52 am

Years

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