Items in Jul, 2004
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76000-in-1 TV Game Power Player. A friend recently acquired one of these. Best. Illegal. Toy. Ever. # 30th July 2004, 2:21 am
Interactive generators. Uche says generators are issuing in an exciting new era of Python XML processing. # 29th July 2004, 6:19 am
Improving online credibility
If you’ve browsed Amazon’s product reviews recently you may have noticed an interesting new feature: Badges, little icons displayed below certain people’s names. This isn’t a new idea by any means—many online communities use special icons as rewards for members who make valuable contributions (SitePoint is a good example). What’s interesting about Amazon’s badges is that one of them is “Real Name”. Amazon’s Real Names FAQ explains the badge, and includes the following:
[... 230 words]Great Hackers. “Of all the great programmers I can think of, I know of only one who would voluntarily program in Java. And of all the great programmers I can think of who don’t work for Sun, on Java, I know of zero.” # 29th July 2004, 3:01 am
Jimmy Wales on battling wiki spam
Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia was interviewed recently by the Slashdot community. One of the questions regarded protecting Wikis from spammers:
[... 241 words]How to handle international dates and times in PHP and MySQL. Keith tackles a common point of irritation. # 29th July 2004, 1:25 am
SCPlugin (via) Subversion plugin for the Finder. # 29th July 2004, 1:08 am
HTTP Caching & Cache-Busting for Content Publishers (via) I learnt a lot from this—especially the no-cookie domain stuff. # 29th July 2004, 12:45 am
Implementing XHTML 2.0 (via) Client side behaviour hacks have serious disadvantages. # 28th July 2004, 8:38 pm
Why you shouldn’t be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks... (via) Recommends pass phrases instead. Seems like smart advice. # 28th July 2004, 5:35 pm
World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools. The WikiPedia take on legalised child abduction and imprisonment. # 28th July 2004, 12:55 am
Want your kid to disappear? (via) Quite simply terrifying. # 28th July 2004, 12:53 am
Dean outfoxes Hannity! Good to see Outfoxed is making an impact. # 27th July 2004, 10:41 pm
Conventions over configuration. Making things flexible by convention. # 27th July 2004, 9:31 pm
Throwing Tables Out the Window (via) Doug Bowman: “There’s no longer any reason to use tables for layout”. # 27th July 2004, 6:52 pm
pMock: a mock object library for Python (via) This should add quite a bit of flexibility to standard unit testing. # 27th July 2004, 4:32 am
Barclaycard dumps Mac users (via) Two weeks old and already in the Google top 10 for ’Barclaycard’. # 27th July 2004, 1:31 am
Worst Album Covers Ever (via) These are fantastic. # 27th July 2004, 1:20 am
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: Expansion Pak #1. The Tiger’s Vest (with a Basic Introduction to Irb). More Ruby insanity. # 27th July 2004, 12:39 am
wordlog.com (via) “WordPress news from around the web” # 26th July 2004, 8:58 pm
Sorry, you can’t do that. Poor Windows XP usability. # 26th July 2004, 7:36 pm
“My Beef With Big Media” by Ted Turner (via) Ted Turner speaks out against media consolidation. # 26th July 2004, 3:44 pm
WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language / (via) Wouldn’t you know it, there’s a power curve at work. # 26th July 2004, 3:14 pm
New features in Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (via) Thunderbird is getting an RSS reader. # 26th July 2004, 3:08 pm
Show of Hands. Or maybe IE users just don’t like to admit to it? # 25th July 2004, 11:47 pm
Updated FormProcessor code released. Now available through Subversion. # 25th July 2004, 10:50 pm
Office Space Soundboard. Someone had to do it. # 25th July 2004, 10:50 pm
The Internet Has Spoken. Remarkably dumb CNN poll. # 25th July 2004, 10:49 pm
Manifesto for the Reputation Society (via) Useful for work. # 25th July 2004, 10:48 pm
Designing Extensible, Versionable XML Formats. Advice from Dare Obasanjo. # 25th July 2004, 10:46 pm