Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

AutoIT Administration Scripts

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Just a collection of links to some interesting looking AutoIT administration/IT scripts.
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Tutorial: How to Build a Firefox Extension

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Lifehacker has a good tutorial about how to build a firefox extension.
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In the Beginning was the Command Line

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

I was reading through a comment on Slashdot yesterday when I found a link to an essay Neal Stephenson had written about Operating Systems. I remember seeing this before but never got around to reading it. I have just started but so far it’s a pretty good read!

The Information Architecture of Email

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

Dan Brown of Boxes and Arrows has a great essay up regarding the Information Architecture of Email. He gives a good overview of what google did differently, and how it changes the way you work with email.

Gmail revealed to me my email behavior - something I hadn’t previously given much thought. By making certain things easier (and others more difficult), Gmail showed me how “typical” email applications weren’t necessarily designed according to how I used them.

I just wish a desktop email client (Like ximian Evolution) would incorporate some of the features google did.

Dymanic Document Search Engine

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

Just a few programming-related links I want to keep track of:

PHP Templating System

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

Just a link I want to keep track of…

“PHPSavant”:http://phpsavant.sourceforge.net/ is a templating system for PHP that utilizes the existing php syntax rather than making up a new one.

PHP Config

Friday, September 5th, 2003

Just a link I want to keep track of…

Dev Shed has a good article about using “PHP Config to handle applicaiton configuration”:http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/PHP_Config

More on the SCO vs. Linux Battke

Tuesday, August 19th, 2003

I find the ongoing SCO vs. Linux battle rather interesting. Today several sights have started to leak photos of some of the alleged copied code found in Linux. Here’s a good summary of what’s wrong with the “code SCO alleges was stolen from them”:http://lwn.net/Articles/45019/. The short answer is SCO already released the code under an Open Source License, which means it was legally copied. That kind o explains why they won’t tell the world what was ’stolen’.

Software Testring Strategies

Wednesday, July 16th, 2003

Devarticles has a good article about “effective software testing strategies”:http://www.devarticles.com/art/1/605 for ‘Disfunctional Software Organisations’.
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Browser-based WYSIWYG HTML Editors

Friday, July 11th, 2003

I just came across a great list of “WYSIWYG HTML Editors that can be incorporated into a webpage”:http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/projects/cms/ttw/ttw.html.

Website Usability

Saturday, June 7th, 2003

I seem to be on a Website Usability/Design kick lately. Here’s a good article talking about the good and bad of “Website Navigation”:http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Design/Basics/nav1.html

More PHP Programming Links

Thursday, June 5th, 2003

Just a collection of PHP Programming links to explore…
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Storing Hierarchical Data in a Database

Thursday, June 5th, 2003

SitePoint’s got a good article about “Storing Hierarchical Data in a Database”:http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1105.
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How to Hide Your HTML Source

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003

Here’s a great site that shows what’s wrong wih companies that try to sell you software to “‘encrypt’ your html pages”:http://www.vortex-webdesign.com/help/hidesource.htm. (A common topic on several lists I lurk on.)
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Dirty URL’s

Monday, June 2nd, 2003

Evolt’s got another good article talking about “how to name your URL’s”:http://www.evolt.org/article/Towards_Next_Generation_URLs/20/60159/index.html.
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