Items in 2004
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But what does it actually DO? People who write marketing blurbs for websites should be re-educated with a two-by-four # 6th January 2004, 5:41 pm
The Free Software Community After 20 Years: With great but incomplete success, what now? (via) Richard Stallman sings Sargent Pepper # 6th January 2004, 5:24 am
How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web (via) Facets, facets, facets # 6th January 2004, 4:17 am
Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated (via) And I still haven’t quite got them figured out :o/ # 6th January 2004, 3:27 am
Mailio—email with training wheels (via) Webmail for kids, with a parent controlled whitelist # 6th January 2004, 3:26 am
PaWS 2004
Here’s an interesting topic for a conference: PHP and Web Standards, to be held in Manchester from February 20th to the 24th. I’ve devoted a lot of time and energy to combining the two for this blog—it’s a shame I’ll be out of the country when the conference rolls around. I should be able to make it to SXSW this year though.
[... 66 words]The people have spoken... the bastards. The highly amusing tail of an online/phone poll gone wrong # 6th January 2004, 3:08 am
CSS Fast Rollovers Without Preload—Updated (via) Now with a fix for an obscure IE bug # 6th January 2004, 2:59 am
I’ll take Social Software for $1,000 please, Alex. (via) More on the pros and cons of social networking software # 6th January 2004, 2:52 am
Non-link element hovering in MSIE. A good summary of the latest kick-IE-in-to-compliance Javascript technique # 6th January 2004, 2:51 am
TagSoup (via) Forgiving HTML parser written in Java # 6th January 2004, 2:50 am
digitalslr.org (via) Another excellent niche blog # 6th January 2004, 2:48 am
Decentralised social networking
I know I’m late to the party, but my recent experiments with LinkedIn and Friendster have got me all interested in the potential of software that bulids on top of people’s own social networks. There’s just one thing that’s been bugging me, best explained by this quote from Om Malik:
[... 258 words]AppScripting (via) The power of AppleScript with the less verbose syntax of Python # 6th January 2004, 2:12 am
WiFi Speed Spray. You’ll be amazed! # 5th January 2004, 5:20 pm
OmniWeb 5 Preview (via) Tabs with thumbnails look cool, but might take up too much space # 3rd January 2004, 12:27 am
Entering CasualSpace... (via) Virtual spaces with iChat AV # 2nd January 2004, 4:38 pm
Grandparenting will never be the same (via) The video phone is finally here # 2nd January 2004, 4:36 pm
MozillaZine Review of the Year 2003. A tumultuous year # 1st January 2004, 11:35 pm
Targets for 2004
Looking back on 2003, one thing really stuck out for me: I didn’t learn a new programming language. The Pragmatic Programmers recommend learning at least one new language every year, and I’ve heard similar advice from other notable authorities; Ruby’s Matz made a similar point in an article published just the other day.
[... 208 words]Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all my friends back in the UK. Of course, here in Kansas it’s only 6pm. Gotta love those time zones (Second worst idea ever. (See DaylightSavingTime) A nightmare from which we can never escape. Think JetLag is bad? TimeZones are worse, because we all have it, and they won’t go away after a few oddly timed naps.
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