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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

JavaScript and accessibility. Matt May is seeking JavaScripters to help build a library of accessible scripts.

# 11th June 2004, 6:40 am / accessibility

Standards-War Stupidity. “... in my opening remarks I said we were not going to tolerate any childish ad-hominem bullshit in this process ...”

# 11th June 2004, 3:57 am

A Reason to Visit Lawrence, Kansas. We’re hosting a couple two-day conferences.

# 10th June 2004, 5:35 pm

Protect Data in Panther (via) Storing notes in your Keychain and saving files in encrypted disk images.

# 10th June 2004, 5:39 am

WHAT’s Next. More WHAT punnage, with thoughts from Dave Shea.

# 9th June 2004, 8:30 pm

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Release Notes. I just installed 0.9 RC 1 on my Mac. It’s prettier than 0.8.

# 9th June 2004, 8:08 pm / firefox, mozilla

Small Values of Cool: 5250 fans aren’t Luddutes. Serious data entry clerks and mice just don’t mix.

# 9th June 2004, 3:55 pm

milov.nl: even more fun with subdomains (via) “As of today, in an attempt to pollute subdomainspace even further...”

# 9th June 2004, 3:48 pm

OrderedList.com Examples : Bending the Matrix (via) That’s some pretty crazy image replacement!

# 9th June 2004, 3:43 pm

Implementation issues with DHTML behaviors (via) Interesting post by Dean Edwards to the WHAT WG mailing list.

# 9th June 2004, 9:10 am

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