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Learning Perl the Hard Way [PDF]. A guide to Perl for people with previous programming experience. # 18th June 2005, 6:27 pm

New WP.org Search. Matt praises Yahoo’s search APIs. # 17th June 2005, 11:31 pm

Python programming job at Columbia University. Ignore the jargon—a little birdie tells me this is a Python job. # 17th June 2005, 11 pm

Over 600,000 mp3 downloads of BBC Radio 3’s Beethoven programmes. Note the bit at the end about how much internal buzz this is generating. # 16th June 2005, 9:31 pm

blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo! (via) That’s a relief. # 14th June 2005, 11:23 pm

The trouble with PHP. This is a good rebuttal to a recent “PHP’s simplicity beats Rails” piece. # 14th June 2005, 2:27 pm

del.icio.us: casting the net wider. system: tags are a really neat way of adding specialised tag features. # 14th June 2005, 9:01 am

Rendering Web Page To Images in Gecko. New feature involving the canvas API, coming soon. Tons of potential. # 14th June 2005, 8:59 am

Joe Clark: @media2005. Comprehensive notes on all(?) the sessions. # 14th June 2005, 8:43 am

@Media 2005 report (via) Mike Davies (Isofarro) has some great @media session notes. # 14th June 2005, 8:34 am

Walcot Nation Day 2005. My photos from Bath’s annual eccentric street festival. # 13th June 2005, 9:53 am

Financial Times Using Link Spam. Google should publically drop them from their index, then reinstate them when the link spam is removed. # 12th June 2005, 9:19 am

No New Command Line for Longhorn (via) There goes the only remaining Longhorn feature I was interested in. # 11th June 2005, 1:42 am

Ruby on Rails, and the Rails Beta Book. The comments include a good discussion of the pros and cons of Rails’ code-in-templates approach. # 10th June 2005, 5:22 pm

Magic Microformat Forms Redux, Now with GreaseMonkey! Les Orchard gets in to Greasemonkey—with accompanying screencast. # 9th June 2005, 11:18 pm

Baby Weasel. Unfeasibly adorable. There is no reason for this post. # 9th June 2005, 11:03 pm

Workplace absuridities as phone support for a DSL ISP. Greasemonkey used to fix web application leads to misguided Firefox ban. # 9th June 2005, 11:01 pm

The BBC News website—under the bonnet (via) SSIs, Apache, Linux (and Solaris) and two server farms. # 9th June 2005, 10:01 pm

Bookmarklets to User Scripts. A user script to turn bookmarklets in to user scripts. # 9th June 2005, 5:14 pm

This week’s UK television. Includes unofficial XML feeds scraped from various sources. # 9th June 2005, 5:12 pm

CSV channel listings. Each number is the name of a .dat file containing listings for that channel. # 9th June 2005, 5:11 pm

BBC 1 listings in CSV. Listings for the next two weeks # 9th June 2005, 5:10 pm

Google Maps Make Demographics Come Alive (via) Great photo of Adrian lurking behind his laptop. # 9th June 2005, 12:39 am

Google Maps takedown notice (via) Why can’t all takedown notices be this polite? # 9th June 2005, 12:38 am

The WebKit Open Source Project (via) The Safari team’s full CVS history, and more. Should hopefully improve their relationship with KTHML. # 7th June 2005, 10:27 am

Principles of visibility and human friendliness. Tantek makes an excellent argument that visible metadata works better than invisible metadata. # 4th June 2005, 8:20 pm

Drip: IE Leak Detector. Fantastic! # 3rd June 2005, 12:09 pm

Google Blog: Webmaster-friendly. Google Sitemaps are XML files that webmasters can use to ensure pages on their site are crawled. # 3rd June 2005, 11:33 am

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