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XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit (via) Process XML with Unix pipes. # 30th June 2004, 10:55 pm

Friendster goes PHP (via) Notable performance improvement over the old JSP/Tomcat setup. # 29th June 2004, 10:18 pm

Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog (via) The first Fortune 500 board member with a weblog? # 29th June 2004, 5:22 pm

San Francisco Photos, June 2004 (via) Photos from my trip to San Francisco. # 29th June 2004, 4:43 pm

Zeldman on why drop down menus suck. Good for pointing people to. # 29th June 2004, 4:39 pm

Developing a URL structure for broadcast radio sites... Anally-retentive URL design. Love it! # 28th June 2004, 4:38 pm

PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss (via) Fixing some very funky behaviour in PHP’s XML parser. # 26th June 2004, 11:24 pm

Developing With Web Standards (via) Next time someone asks you about standards, point them to this. # 26th June 2004, 10:55 pm

Coalition: Vast Majority Of Iraqis Still Alive. So at least there’s some good news... # 25th June 2004, 8:22 pm

FCKeditor—The text editor for Internet (via) Looks like the best cross-browser rich text editor package yet (LGPL). # 19th June 2004, 12:37 am

Accessing your Gmail inbox with Python. Adrian’s ultra-cool, TOS-violating gmail hack. # 18th June 2004, 11:25 pm

Microsoft Research DRM talk. Cory tells MS why they should sit out on DRM. # 18th June 2004, 4:51 pm

The IE team’s Group Program Manager speaks (via) Comment on Channel 9, emphasizes importance of backwards compatibility. # 17th June 2004, 5:45 pm

Linus vs. Tanenbaum (via) Linux vs. MINIX back in 1992. # 17th June 2004, 5:07 pm

Firefox Extension: Bookmarks Synchronizer (via) Very, very cool. Syncs bookmarks via an FTP server. # 17th June 2004, 4:36 pm

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

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

A Response to the League of Women Voters (via) Voting machine FAQ debunked. # 15th June 2004, 10:04 pm

Bruce vs. Bruce (via) Schneier and Sterling discuss security and technology. # 15th June 2004, 10:04 pm

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

’Game’: Fun with databases. Adrian discusses our latest site launch. # 12th June 2004, 12:14 am

Writing Code Is Stupid (via) Argues that the future for many applications lies in code generation. # 11th June 2004, 9:12 pm

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