Tuesday, 2nd December 2003
Selectutorial
New from Russ Weakley: Selectutorial, which taks his widely acclaimed step by step CSS tutorial style and applies it to CSS selectors. Having a full understanding of selectors is critical if you’re going to take full advantage of CSS, so if you don’t get them yet you should really check this out.
The 2003 Perl Advent Calendar (via) I wish Python had one of these
HTML entities for email addresses: don’t bother
I’ve suspected this for a long time, and now here’s the empirical evidence: Popular Spam Protection Technique Doesn’t Work. If you’re relying on HTML entities to protect your email address from spam harvesters—for example username@example.com—your email address may as well be in plain text. Chip Rosenthal downloaded a tool called “Web Data Extractor v4.0” and tried it on some test data to prove once and for all that the technique doesn’t work.
Downloading your hotmail inbox
Adrian just pointed me to a fantastic tool: Gotmail, a utility to download mail from Hotmail accounts. It’s a command line utitlity, written in Perl and making use of the curl binary, which can connect to Hotmail over the web and grab any new emails, saving them locally as an mbox file and deleting them from the Hotmail server.
[... 289 words]Sidewinder: Resolution. My cousin’s new album. Buy it and support fresh talent ;)
Dynamic or batch publishing? (via) A management-friendly guide to static vs dynamic
A New Website for Harper’s Magazine. Paul Ford’s semantic web publishing system gets a commercial outing
Sortable Tables, with colour. An extension to Stuart’s sorttable.js
FetchYahoo! Like Gotmail, for Yahoo
CSS Centering—fun for all! A good overview of a common gotcha
userland can access Linux kernel memory. Major local root exploit (and nothing to do with Dave Winer)—patch those boxen
radiac.net Christmas decorations. Thankfully Firebird doesn’t play the midi files
Dicts from lists (via) Neat Python one-liner using 2.3’s extended slices
Hire Dave Shea. You know you want to
Netstrings. Easy, secure method for transmitting strings over a network
Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites. Global function namespace + oversimplification = trouble
Dating Design Patterns (via) Reusable solutions for a complex system
A Tale of Two (Linux) Cities (via) Local government and Open Source
Collective Ownership of Code and Text. Ward Cunningham interview, part II
The mystery of why only four properties apply to table columns. More deep and gruesome CSS theory from Hixie
Skip This Rant and Read Shirky (via) More metadata challenges
Python vs PHP. He’s not the messiah! He’s a very naughty boy.