Tuesday, 16th December 2003
We are all nerds now. I proudly call myself a “geek”
SiteBar. Like blogmarks but different
Problems at University. Bath’s new academic year structure sounds bloody awful
Pricelessware (via) The best in Windows freeware
Mac buying advice needed
I’m in the market for a new laptop, and I’m almost 100% certain it’s going to be a Mac. I’m going to be using it as my primary personal computing platform, but the vast majority of what I do with a computer is browsing, using email and messing around Python, Apache and other geeky toys. I’m sorely tempted by one of the 14" iBooks. Since I’ll be using this thing a lot (and I’ve never been a huge fan of laptop keyboards) 12 inches seems to small, and I’m not convinced that the extra cash for a PowerBook is worthwhile now that iBooks go up to 1 GHz.
[... 417 words]Summer Internship at Fog Creek. One heck of an opportunity
Just in time instantiation (via) Python trick for proxying object instantiation
Joel on Eric
Joel Spolsky’s latest essay reviews Eric Raymond’s The Art of Unix Programming (a book I really want to pick up) and uses it as background for a discussion of the cultural differences between Windows and Unix programmers. As always, it’s an insightful piece.
[... 197 words]PECL :: Package :: tidy (via) Tidy for PHP; repairs busted HTML and lets you traverse the DOM as well
More CSS trickery
Stu Nicholls dropped me a line earlier to pimp his new CSS demo site, www.s7u.co.uk. He’s got some really nice tricks and the site warrants serious exploration. There’s a good take on the classic 3 column layout with header and footer problem, a bunch of neat menus and a bunch of fun demos that defy categorisation.
Getting open source into public libraries. OpenOffice.org now available in most Scottish libraries
Napster: The Cat is Cool. Amazingly, it doesn’t completely suck!
RELAX NG now an ISO standard
Via James Robertson, RELAX NG (altogether too many caps) has been published by ISO as an International Standard. RELAX NG compact syntax is will hopefully join it soon.
[... 149 words]Avoid Santa Claus approach to content management: December 15, 2003 issue of New Thinking by Gerry McGovern (via) “A portal is a website that costs you four times more.”
Apples and pears. How to get two types of apple from one tree
About Google Print (BETA) (via) Google’s take on “search inside the book”