January 2006
Searching Google for “Javascript Inheritance” returns some interesting but, IMO, also frustrating results such as Douglas Crockford’s various takes in Classical Inheritance in... Read More
(via Dave Winer) Apple’s newly-released iPhoto 6 does an admirable job of making it easy for its users to publish feeds of their photos from their desktop. When Steve Jobs announced the... Read More
Following on from yesterday’s logo placement discussion — a few people quite rightly mentioned the simplicity of placing the logo using an IMG tag within H1 tags. There’s no doubt... Read More
A client of mine was hot and heavy to move forward with an engagement last month. He paid me 50% upfront right away (BTW — I am more than willing to give up credit card fees to send an... Read More
Via reddit (great site if you suffer attention defecit): Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming by Peter Norvig (Director Research at Google). In slide form it’s somewhat tricky to extract... Read More
Forget Pagerank: as Gord explains, this measure no longer allows us to accurately or consistently predict how a page will perform in the search results. Here, he unravels the concept of Link... Read More
Nick Wilsdon has posted an interesting blog post about just what Google knows as a Domain Name Registrar (which it became in Feb 2005): believe Google has built or is building a tool to analyse... Read More
2006 is the Year of the Penguin! So if you've been toying with the idea of running your own server, now's the time. This comprehensive guide shows you how to get started - from installing Linux, to... Read More
A funny from the Python crowd: phpfilter – PHP “support” under CherryPy. There is a serious side to that though – it’s spitting out something that looks like a PHP parse... Read More
I remember when Michael Jordan and Larry Bird were at their peak, people used to say that “the game came to them.” They did less to get great results. Somehow they could read the court... Read More
Getting a forum off the ground more than nearly anything else is one of the most time consuming things for a content site publisher to do. In some cases it takes years to get enough posts for the... Read More
(Via digg) An apparent easter egg in some versions of PHP will display a picture of a dog when any PHP script is loaded with a particular query string. Try it here on SitePoint:... Read More
YourKit Java Profiler is an excellent tool for tracking down and fixing performance issues and memory leaks in Java applications, from desktop apps to Web applications. Much like a debugger, a... Read More
Ran into web.py here, while it was still unreleased and got hooked by the API design and the comment Aaron made here The third principle is that web.py should, by default, do the right thing by the... Read More
