September 2004
Sept. 21, 2004
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: Chapter 5. Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream
Guardian Unlimited | Newsblog. The Guardian’s new blog. Interesting for the comments above anything else.
Boris Johnson—Conservative MP (via) The first Tory MP blog. Unfortunately most of the entries at the moment are by his press secretary.
The Joel Test for Web Development. How much can web developers learn from software developers? A heck of a lot.
Sept. 22, 2004
NetNewsWire 2.0b3 and MarsEdit public betas. Plenty of new features, free upgrades for registered users.
Compiling PNG utilities on Mac OS X. Likely to be useful at some point.
XMLHttpRequest is coming to Opera! (via) It’s already in IE, Mozilla and Safari—Opera completes the set.
Opera 7.60 Preview 1 Changenotes. XMLHttpRequest + other goodies.
After Abu Ghraib. If even one tenth of this is true, it should be an international scandal.
kansascity.craigslist.org job: Monitor / Linguist. Evesdrop on phone calls for the DHS, for $45 an hour!
Sept. 23, 2004
Sam Ruby: Copy and Paste. This character encoding glitch has bitten me more times than I care to say.
Sept. 24, 2004
TiddlyWiki (via) Client-side Wiki in JavaScript. In page editing is The Next Big Thing.
Sept. 28, 2004
Running Pydoc under mod_python
I’ve written about pydoc before. In my opinion it’s one of Python’s best kept secrets: a way of instantly browsing the properties, methods and documentation strings of any module available to the Python environment. It can even run a local HTTP server to allow for easy browsing of available documentation.
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