Inklings: 2005-05

CSS Organization Tip 1: Flags

🕑 2005-05-05T21:43:39+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Neat way of organising your CSS to make stuff easier to find.

So that's how he does it!

🕑 2005-05-09T01:56:37+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Sam Ruby reveals something that’s been puzzling me for a while: how he tracks referring pages without needing the likes of Trackback or Pingback. It turns out it’s some magic involving Referer header and Technorati. Is Trackback dead? Maybe, but I smell a second coming. :-)

URIs, Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET and POST

🕑 2005-05-09T22:28:58+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

I have no pity for the people who were bitten by GWA. None. However, it does point out how shoddy HTML forms are be and how dumb it was for HTML to mandate the use of only two of the HTTP verbs.

Subtext

🕑 2005-05-09T23:04:04+00:00; via lambda-the-ultimate.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A “structural” programming language. Quite odd, and quite interesting. It reminds me more than a little of spreadsheets though.

John Cowan has a blog

🕑 2005-05-10T21:47:56+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

John’s a veritable fountain of knowledge. ‘Bout time he got himself a blog.

Dive Into Greasemonkey

🕑 2005-05-10T22:06:47+00:00; via www.waxy.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Mark’s at it again!

JavaScript Optimisations

🕑 2005-05-10T23:46:41+00:00; via farm.tucows.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Bram Cohen interview

🕑 2005-05-11T00:09:55+00:00; via slashdot.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Didn’t know he was an aspie.

Frank Zappa's Proposal For A System To Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising

🕑 2005-05-11T22:48:23+00:00; via www.waxy.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

The future as seen by Frank Zappa. In 1983. And he was right.

How I implemented tags: a denormalized approach

🕑 2005-05-11T22:51:57+00:00; via naeblis.cx; try the Wayback Machine | edit

I will do this for my weblog. I will do this for my weblog. I will do this for my weblog. I will do this for my weblog…

OpenGL.org

🕑 2005-05-12T01:19:56+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Doom Legacy

🕑 2005-05-12T01:20:34+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A superior engine for playing all your old WADs

Free Launch Bar

🕑 2005-05-12T14:18:14+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Been using this for a while now. It’s an excellent replacement for the Windows Quick Launch Bar.

Western Corridor to reopen!

🕑 2005-05-13T15:15:00+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Woohoo! After years for waiting for it, those asshats in Dublin have seen sense and given the west back a rail line. The sooner they do it, the better.

Red 5

🕑 2005-05-13T17:16:48+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A flash game recreation of Luke’s cavern run from Star Wars.

Higher Order JavaScript

🕑 2005-05-14T00:16:40+00:00; via farm.tucows.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Worth it for the memoize() function.

Algorithm 123: STV by Meek's Method

🕑 2005-05-16T19:44:51+00:00; via www.livejournal.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Quickstart Guide To Open Source Development With CVS and SourceForge

🕑 2005-05-16T20:39:01+00:00; via philringnalda.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Bloody hell! This is exactly what I was looking for when I started fiddling with stuff on SourceForge. Nifta!

Piracy is Good?

🕑 2005-05-16T20:49:59+00:00; via rc3.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

BitTorrent contributed to making BSG the SciFi Channel’s highest-rated show: what does this say about piracy?

Capitalization Rules for Titles

🕑 2005-05-17T13:46:08+00:00; via farm.tucows.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Free Pascal

🕑 2005-05-17T18:58:42+00:00; via it.slashdot.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A free cross-platform Pascal compiler. Combined with a bunch of libraries called Lazarus, it’s capable of building Delphi applications with it.

Using behaviours to implement border-radius in IE

🕑 2005-05-19T15:33:08+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Useful, but doesn’t appear to work if your document has a doctype. :-(

Why Can't I Patent My Movie?

🕑 2005-05-19T17:04:21+00:00; via yro.slashdot.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Current European patent law and how it relates to software.

OpenID

🕑 2005-05-20T18:26:23+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Raza Microelectronics Introduces Industry's First Thread Processor Designed for Connected Computing

🕑 2005-05-22T18:21:44+00:00; via wmf.editthispage.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Far more interesting than Cell processors, IMHO.

TinyXML

🕑 2005-05-23T15:30:09+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A small, simple C++ XML parser.

Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons

🕑 2005-05-24T15:21:11+00:00; via farm.tucows.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Interesting Things to Know about MySQL

🕑 2005-05-25T00:34:46+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Range Encoding

🕑 2005-05-27T23:17:39+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

An alternative to Arithmetic Encoding and Huffman Encoding that’s more efficient than the latter, and unencumbered by patents, unlike the former.

Transparent custom corners and borders

🕑 2005-05-31T17:18:14+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Uses JS to make it work universally, but in a good way.