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February 14, 2004
Excellent article on the security issues of Open Source development
This is a response to another article, questioning the security of Open Source....Continue reading "Excellent article on the security issues of Open Source development"
January 02, 2004
Preventing comment spam in MT
Great tips on how to make comment spammers dirty work a whole lot harder. Requires very little effort....Continue reading "Preventing comment spam in MT"
December 05, 2003
3-click rule wrong?
This company decided to put the long used 3-click rule of organizing web content to the test. They found it to be a myth....Continue reading "3-click rule wrong?"
November 14, 2003
We need to make Accessibility Guidelines more... ...accessible?
It may sound weird, but I definitely think this article's author has a point....Continue reading "We need to make Accessibility Guidelines more... ...accessible?"
November 12, 2003
Multiple IE on Windows - it works!
Today I followed the instructions from Insert Title Web Design in order to install multiple IE on my PC. Success!...Continue reading "Multiple IE on Windows - it works!"
November 09, 2003
Better half-right than all wrong
This article on the design philosophy of "worse is better" is very interesting. But what the hell does this mean: "the MIT guy then muttered that sometimes it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken"?...Continue reading "Better half-right than all wrong"
November 08, 2003
Don't hack the CSS parsers
Peter-Paul Koch explains why CSS hacks are A Bad Idea....Continue reading "Don't hack the CSS parsers"
Great stuff on CSS gathered by Zeldman
A smörgåsbord of CSS-magic, to study and learn from....Continue reading "Great stuff on CSS gathered by Zeldman"
That orange thing must be broken...
Good point about the horrifying tech mumbo jumbo still surrounding RSS feeds, and a glimpse of a possible future solution....Continue reading "That orange thing must be broken..."
Multiple IE on the same Windows PC
This is excellent stuff, provided it works. Finally we perhaps can dedicate a Windows PC at work where all interesting versions of IE are installed for testing web sites....Continue reading "Multiple IE on the same Windows PC"
October 11, 2003
Character sets, leeches and weird IE behavior...
Joel Spolsky has written an excellent piece describing the history of why there are different character sets in the world and why he true way spells Unicode....Continue reading "Character sets, leeches and weird IE behavior..."
October 05, 2003
Source code reading tips
Joel on Software a few years back published some interesting tips on how to easier decipher software code. Still interesting....Continue reading "Source code reading tips"
Software code should be habitable
A very interesting view on code and the aspect of further developmnt and maintenance. Code should be habitable. And hospitable....Continue reading "Software code should be habitable"
September 07, 2003
Salon 21st: The joy of Perl
An old Salon article about Larry Wall and the origins of Perl. Bold words, about changing the culture of computing. And what car he drives....Continue reading "Salon 21st: The joy of Perl"
Perl.com: Perl, the postmodern (de)programming lnguage
Speechless. This speech makes me speechless. Larry Wall has a way of talking that really makes me want to se him live. Some day I must do that....Continue reading "Perl.com: Perl, the postmodern (de)programming lnguage"
July 31, 2003
perl.com: Forget about boring and repetitive code
Interesting article on how to simplify that most boring part of all web programming: getting stuff from a database and showing it in a list....Continue reading "perl.com: Forget about boring and repetitive code"
July 24, 2003
Good to know about migrating MT to other servers
Liz Lawley is moving her blog to a new domain. In her two most recent posts she describes some problems that may occur when moving MT to a new server....Continue reading "Good to know about migrating MT to other servers"
July 09, 2003
PCStats: Introduction to home WiFi
Since I have such crappy coverage in my bed room, I prolly need to read this......Continue reading "PCStats: Introduction to home WiFi"
SAML: An overview and introduction
This is an introduction to SAML, clearing away some myths and misunderstandsings about the new Security Assertion Markup Language....Continue reading "SAML: An overview and introduction"
July 08, 2003
Web based database course
An interesting looking online training course on databases....Continue reading "Web based database course"
June 23, 2003
Philip Greenspun: Redefining Professionalism for Software Engineers
In an interesting manner Philip Greenspun by examples explains what it really means to be a professional programmer....Continue reading "Philip Greenspun: Redefining Professionalism for Software Engineers"
Eric Raymond: Open Source IS agile programming!
In this article Eric Raymond, having read "Refactoring" by Martin Fowler, sees huge similarities between the school of agile programming and what hackers have been doing in the open source community for decades....Continue reading "Eric Raymond: Open Source IS agile programming!"
Parsing FOAF with PHP
This article is a guide to using PHP to parse FOAF documents. FOAF stands for Friend-of-a-Friend and is a fun application of RDF that describes people and their relationships to one another. It assumes that the reader is familiar with...Continue reading "Parsing FOAF with PHP"
June 22, 2003
RegExp Library:
This is just excellent. A site where regexps are stored and displayed library style. Just search, copy, paste....Continue reading "RegExp Library:"
June 18, 2003
Perl Design Pattenrs
In 1995, Design Patterns was published, and during the intervening years, it has had a great influence on how many developers write software. Here is a piece on how to use design patterns while coding OO Perl....Continue reading "Perl Design Pattenrs"
