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When to put the web into Web Services. aka “What’s SOAP actually useful for?”
The Poetry of Programming (via) More on the Master of Fine Arts in Software
Link dumps. I never realised how popular these things were
Writing Efficient CSS (via) I like shorthand properties more for saving typing than for saving bandwidth
Sam Ruby: Learning to Rest. Every time Sam talks about Rest my eyes begin to cross over
We will not ship shit. (via) Words to live by
Linkrot. A personal alternative to the Google cache would make a fun project
web-sniffer.net (via) A welcome replacement for Mozilla’s demised web-sniffer tool
Breadth first traversal of a tree. Mind bending usage of yield. Depth-first traversal is left as an exercise for the reader.
A Day in the Life of #Apache. The AllowOverride directive explained in newbie friendly terms
LUFS Intro. “LUFS is a hybrid userspace file system framework”
Who will be eaten first? (via) Cthulhu Chick Tract—beautiful
Tidy service for the Desperate Blog Hacker (via) The easiest kind of web service: post HTML to it, get back tidied XHTML
Inherent insecurity (via) Desktops are secure, thin clients aren’t, but Microsoft can’t push thin clients
Congratulations to Eric and Kat
(via)
kat+eric:first-child {name:carolyn;} (pinched from Web Graphics)
NABA Compiler (via) A Java compiler in Python?
Ben’s 2004 Crystal Ball. The year of CSS is nigh
Jeremy Zawodny’s 2004 Crystal Ball. PageRank Still Dead
Five Geek Social Fallacies (via) How many of these do you exhibit?
Debian’s Response. Praise for Debian’s handling of their recent security incident
Python shlex module. Parsing of simple UNIX shell-like syntax, contributed by ESR
The GNU Privacy Handbook. How to use GPG. Encryption is anything but simple.
User Interface Hierarchies Rant. Russell on interface
On Search: Robots. Everything you need to know about writing a tool to crawl the web
Public, private, secret. On the loss of privacy on the web
Patents in an internet video shop (via) Patent insanity illustrated
Ulli’s Roy Orbison in Cling-film site. Marvellous, particularly the bits about the terrapin
Silly JavaScript Security. “Sorry, you do not have permission to press this key,”