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cssutils (via) CSS library for Python (parsing and generation)

# 22nd April 2004, 2:35 am

Starting at Google next month (via) Google hires Jeremy Hylton and Greg Stein.

# 22nd April 2004, 1:29 am

Syndication By The Numbers. Two REALLY interesting uses of RSS and weblogs: one high traffic, one military.

# 21st April 2004, 8:02 am

Vulnerability Issues in TCP. DoS attack against the protocol itself. This is not good.

# 20th April 2004, 9:45 pm

// hicksdesign :: Thunderbird (via) New Thunderbird logo to accompany the Firefox one. I like it.

# 20th April 2004, 5:50 pm

Opinion with David Emberton (via) Compares standards to communism in the first sentence. Watch him get ripped apart in the comments.

# 20th April 2004, 3:35 pm

EFF: The Patent Busting Project (via) Awesome! Finally someone with the means to tackle crank internet patents.

# 20th April 2004, 4:29 am

Will Trade Passwords For Chocolate (via) I’m not at all surprised. Most people see passwords as more of an annoyance than a security measure.

# 20th April 2004, 4:27 am / passwords, security

Why parrot in production? If you’re remotely interested in compiler technology or even just general computer science you should be reading Dan’s blog.

# 20th April 2004, 2:35 am

Internet Archive: FreeCache (via) Interesting approach to large file distribution, with no special client software required.

# 20th April 2004, 2:33 am

Python Cookbook: Parsing the command line (via) Using optparse, but with the command line setup options stored in the program’s docstring.

# 19th April 2004, 1:51 pm / python

Five Favourite Protocol Design Papers. Includes the classic “A Note on Distributed Computing”

# 19th April 2004, 2:09 am

Spike (via) Network clipboard for Windows and OS X. Shame there’s no Linux version

# 19th April 2004, 2:07 am

Planning for Disaster Recovery on LAMP Systems. Outstanding O’Reilly article on building easily recovered systems.

# 19th April 2004, 12:58 am

Optimization: Your worst enemy. Great essay on premature optimization.

# 18th April 2004, 10:23 pm

The Spy (Ftrain.com). “Because what I do to make a living, developing web sites, is to most people so stunningly, awe-inspiringly boring, that I shield them from my days.”

# 18th April 2004, 8:46 pm

Top 10 ways to crash PHP (via) Fascinating insight in to some little known PHP bugs.

# 16th April 2004, 8:14 pm / php

Yahoo! Search Results for what is my destiny (via) Great tribute to the Onion (click “What’s this” for the original story).

# 16th April 2004, 5:02 am

The learning curve of web standards. Transitioning to standards based web design.

# 15th April 2004, 3:25 am

PHP Comes of Age (via) Oracle sponsored article on PHP “culture clash”.

# 15th April 2004, 2:59 am / php

Frames without frames (via) Replicating Frame style navigation with CSS.

# 15th April 2004, 2:58 am

Cooperative Linux. Run Linux on Windows, natively.

# 15th April 2004, 2:58 am

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (via) More algorithms than you can shke a very big stick at.

# 15th April 2004, 2:54 am

Exact string matching algorithms (via) With illustrative animations in Java.

# 15th April 2004, 2:50 am

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