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Building large strings in PHP. Unlike Python, concatenation is faster than array joining.

# 28th May 2004, 7:27 pm / php

EclipsePlugins (via) Eclipse is the only IDE I’ve ever used that has actually increased my productivity.

# 28th May 2004, 7:23 pm / eclipse, java, plugins

FreeBSD Info Files. In HTML, Postscript, PDF and ASCII.

# 28th May 2004, 5:27 pm

Rounded Corners with CSS and JavaScript. In which I attempt to show that you CAN have your cake and eat it too.

# 28th May 2004, 5:11 pm

TextDrive: An Offer [SOLD OUT]. Dena Allen’s new hosting service gets off to an impressive start.

# 27th May 2004, 10:57 pm

Rejecting rejection letters (via) “Please do not regard this letter as a criticism of your qualifications in attempting to refuse me employment. I wish you the best of luck in rejecting future candidates.”

# 27th May 2004, 9:46 pm

XMLHttpRequest and Javascript Closures. Harry gets intimate with Mozilla’s XMLHttpRequest object.

# 27th May 2004, 12:23 am / closures

Closures and executing JavaScript on page load. I’ve tried to explain closures on my SitePoint blog, using addLoadEvent() as an example.

# 26th May 2004, 7:09 am / closures

Background Images Security Flaw? Styling :visited links can reveal a user’s browser history.

# 24th May 2004, 8:24 pm / css, security

Eric Idle presents... The FCC Song (via) Which, if broadcast, will cost a quarter of a million dollars in fines.

# 24th May 2004, 8:10 am

Beautiful Soup (via) Ultra Liberal Python HTML/XHTML parser.

# 23rd May 2004, 11:51 pm

Chernobyl “Ghost town” was a fraud. Post-apocalyptic biker chick fantasies aren’t all they appear.

# 23rd May 2004, 7:02 pm

trademarked, patented shrubbery. “Propagation of this plant is prohibited due to patent protection.”

# 23rd May 2004, 6:47 pm

Ticked Off? Visited Links How-To (via) Neat checkbox styling for visited links.

# 22nd May 2004, 8:38 pm

Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation (via) Bruce Sterling on scaling up his annual SxSW party. I can’t believe I missed it htis year.

# 22nd May 2004, 8:35 pm / bruce-sterling, microsoft, scaling, sxsw

Agency: Chalabi group was front for Iran (via) Claims the Iranians were feeding misinformation to the US government via Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress.

# 22nd May 2004, 7:36 pm / misinformation

Design Issues for the World Wide Web. A collection of TBL’s thoughts on web architecture.

# 22nd May 2004, 6:47 am

What are these “Threading Models” and why do I care? (via) I’ve promised myself that some day I will read this.

# 22nd May 2004, 6:26 am

Implantable RFIDs for nightclub VIPs. Whoa, clubbers will do anything!

# 22nd May 2004, 6:10 am

SICP Lectures (via) Available in DivX and MPEG.

# 22nd May 2004, 5:52 am

Attacked by Thugs (via) Hilarious tale of Warsaw’s Finest.

# 22nd May 2004, 5:48 am

The Infinite Cat Project (via) Just keep hitting “Next Cat”

# 22nd May 2004, 5:08 am

Mac OS X helpviewer security flaw fixed. Hit Software Update. Not sure if this fixes the telnet: variety though.

# 22nd May 2004, 5:08 am / macos, security

Girl Power! Cootie Catcher (via) On a .gov site? Watch out for the scary animated gif.

# 20th May 2004, 7:50 pm

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