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Optimization: Your worst enemy. Great essay on premature optimization.
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.”
Top 10 ways to crash PHP (via) Fascinating insight in to some little known PHP bugs.
Keep It Simple: Separating behavior and structure. PPK says nice things about me! ego++
New Negative Campaign Ads Blast Voters Directly. Beautiful.
Yahoo! Search Results for what is my destiny (via) Great tribute to the Onion (click “What’s this” for the original story).
Writing serious Perl: The absolute minimum you need to know (via) How to write Perl like Python ;)
The learning curve of web standards. Transitioning to standards based web design.
PHP Comes of Age (via) Oracle sponsored article on PHP “culture clash”.
Frames without frames (via) Replicating Frame style navigation with CSS.
How CoLinux works. The geeky details.
Cooperative Linux. Run Linux on Windows, natively.
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (via) More algorithms than you can shke a very big stick at.
Exact string matching algorithms (via) With illustrative animations in Java.
Survival guide to i18n. Ridiculously useful.
Behind the Scenes at News Aggregator Topix.Net. An interesting operation.
A National ID Card Wouldn’t Make Us Safer. Someone needs to show this to the UK government.
It’s red, not pink. Eric’s latest book looks very different in the flesh.
Duck and Cover (via) The original video, brought to you by the Internet Archive.
XHTML Quicktime Object. A standards Compliant method for adding Quicktime movies to pages.
Normalizing Syndicated Feed Content. “...you are guaranteed to get it wrong an unknown percentage of the time.”
Groovy: Closures. I’d nearly written Groovy off as a pointless Jython clone, but it actually has some interesting features.
Customer service droid cartoon on Penny Arcade. It may be about AT&T, but it could easily apply to Sprint as well.
Gmail accessibility. Mark Pilgrim: “The only way Gmail could be less accessible is if the entire site were built in Flash.”
More Eric Meyer on CSS (via) The pinkest book in the world, ever.
How to bribe the Maitre D (via) It’s easier than you think.
The Problem With Music (via) The producer of Nirvana’s “In Utero” shows how a band’s members can earn $4,000 each for a 250,000 selling album.
Problem Solving Flowchart (via) An oldy but a goldy.