On The Use of Code in Weblog Titles

Friday, March 07, 2008 at 04:22 AM

So you've decided to start a weblog and have a really clever idea for titling it based on a snippet of code you find particularly novel. Rad!

Quick OS X (and Emacs) Keystroke Reference

Wednesday, September 08, 2004 at 03:41 AM

Getting a feel for Emacs on OS X.

Ruby's $LOADED_FEATURES (Array of stuff that's been required)

Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 06:33 PM / devclue.blogspot.com

Not sure how I've never stumbled on this before. You can remove items from the list to cause require to reload a file.

Google Doctype

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 04:37 PM / code.google.com

What Mark Pilgrim has been working on at Google for the past year or so: an encyclopedia of web development.

Git Magic

Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 06:50 AM / www-cs-students.stanford.edu

All manners of good stuff here.

Git HOWTO Index

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 at 01:23 PM / kernel.org

There are some great tips for owning your local workflow in here.

Git for Computer Scientists

Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 02:53 PM / eagain.net

Okay, I've read about five of these articles purporting to explain Git’s internal conceptual framework. This was the first that really made things click in any significant way.

BashPitfalls

Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 03:29 PM / wooledge.org:8000

Most of these are relevant to POSIX sh(1). This one gets me every time: echo <<EOF :)

20 Year Archive on Google Groups

Sunday, March 09, 2008 at 03:52 AM / google.com

I'm apparently the last person on the internet to see this. The rise of internet culture as recorded on Usenet. It’s beautiful, really.

Git User's Manual

Monday, February 11, 2008 at 11:06 AM / kernel.org

Finally: “this manual is designed to be readable by someone with basic UNIX command-line skills, but no previous knowledge of git.”

In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?

Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 07:21 AM / kb.iu.edu

Dennis Ritchie: “There was a facility that would execute a bunch of commands stored in a file; it was called runcom for ‘run commands’, and the file began to be called ‘a runcom’. rc in Unix is a fossil from that usage.”

Working Productively in Bash’s vi Command Line Editing Mode (with Cheat Sheet)

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 02:45 AM / catonmat.net

“I am going to introduce you to bash’s vi editing mode and give out a detailed cheat sheet with the default keyboard mappings for this mode.”

PostgreSQL 8.3 Cheat Sheet

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 at 05:44 AM / postgresonline.com

Wonderful PostgreSQL cheat sheet with PDF and HTML versions.

The Federalist Papers

Saturday, January 05, 2008 at 05:02 AM / federali.st

An online edition of the Federalist Papers which is pleasant to look at and provides paragraph-level permalinking. Each paper is marked up in the hAtom microformat with an elastic layout (stays beautiful with bigger/smaller font size).

ManPageView

Monday, October 15, 2007 at 08:08 PM / vim.org

Vim add-in for viewing manpages, perldoc (both system and embedded), help, info, and php files. Maybe I'll finally be able to read all that GNU info doc I keep hearing about in the GNU coreutils man pages.

Configuring Apache httpd

Friday, October 12, 2007 at 11:54 AM / links.org

Starting with absolutely no configuration file. This is why I've prefered lighttpd, because I can put together a separate config in about five minutes. httpd’s sprawling default config has always scared the crap out of me.

Good Shell Coding Practices - Handling Command Line Arguments

Tuesday, October 02, 2007 at 07:59 AM / shelldorado.com

Very nice look at different methods (good and bad) for handling the command line in sh scripts.

Unison File Synchronizer - User Manual and Reference Guide

Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 01:54 PM / cis.upenn.edu

I'm gonna give this a try for managing home directories now that I've convinced myself that version control is the wrong solution. I moved my homes from CVS to SVN a couple years ago and just tried going with bzr but VCS just isn’t right here.

Ruby on Rails Security Guide

Friday, September 21, 2007 at 07:55 AM / quarkruby.com

Comprehensive look at common Rails security concerns with links out to in-depth articles.

HTML Entity Character Lookup

Wednesday, June 06, 2007 at 08:05 PM / leftlogic.com

Oh wow. I've been trying to find a single page that has every unicode character on it with its hex counterpart but this is pretty fantastic.

sog’s (Unconventional) Highway Etiquette [redmonk.com]

Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 11:13 PM / redmonk.com

Beautifully done, sir. This should be required reading before anyone is allowed to hit an onramp.

README.EXT

Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 10:49 AM / blog.evanweaver.com

“This document explains how to make extension libraries for Ruby.”

Using mutt on OS X [linsec.ca]

Monday, March 12, 2007 at 03:26 AM / linsec.ca

This is pretty darn close to my configuration but I used the mutt-devel port… Oh, and my ~/.procmailrc is pretty insane also :)

getopt and getopts

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 09:38 AM / aplawrence.com

A complete look at the little used utilities for processing arguments in scripts.

HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST)

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 06:02 PM / thoughtpad.net

Nice activity diagram describing the resolution of response status codes given various request methods and headers. Full res GIF, JPEG, PNG, and SVG.

What's New in Prototype 1.5? [xml.com]

Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 07:36 AM / xml.com

Nice review of new features.

53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 10:01 PM / smashingmagazine.com

Very nice list of CSS techniques.

Prototype Javascript Framework

Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 03:25 AM / prototypejs.org

Documentation, finally!

gotAPI.com

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 03:31 PM / gotapi.com

The best attempt I've seen at splicing multiple API references together. This uses the external documentation but provides indexing and browsing features.

UNIX productivity tips

Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 12:39 PM / www-128.ibm.com

Best UNIX productivity article I've read in a long while.

How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly

Monday, September 18, 2006 at 10:51 PM / halfanhour.blogspot.com

Surprisingly insightful.

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

Tuesday, September 05, 2006 at 03:58 PM / webtypography.net

This site is really starting to come along now. The latest addition on how to manage vertical spacing in intervals is something I've been wondering about for a while now.

How to pull an all-nighter

Saturday, April 08, 2006 at 02:39 AM / christianmontoya.com

Fairly acurate prescription…

Getting started with extension development - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 07:54 PM / kb.mozillazine.org

dangerous waters…

Grammer and Writing Tip Archive

Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 03:58 PM / getitwriteonline.com

Can’t find enough of these…

anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 01:17 PM / xs4all.nl

Awesome!

Shell Tips and Tricks

Saturday, December 24, 2005 at 10:51 PM / linux-mag.com

… and not just the usual suspects either.

VI reference

Saturday, November 05, 2005 at 02:50 PM / ungerhu.com

Nice and compact…

Javascript Event compatibility tables

Sunday, October 09, 2005 at 11:38 AM / quirksmode.org

Nice list of DOM events and the varying support of different browsers.

CSS: Specificity Wars Diagram

Friday, October 07, 2005 at 05:08 AM / stuffandnonsense.co.uk

CSS specifity chart based on Sith power levels — to good to be true.

Curing Float Drops and Wraps

Friday, September 30, 2005 at 06:02 PM / nemesis1.f2o.org

I run into these problems on a daily basis…

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Monday, July 18, 2005 at 06:21 PM / lifehack.org

always useful…

Journalism and weblogs, part 327

Thursday, June 30, 2005 at 01:17 AM / philringnalda.com

Word. Authority has been set on its head. There’s been no better time in history to be an ornery bastard. :)

Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 10:55 AM / developer-test.mozilla.org

Mozilla’s JavaScript Reference..

Ruby Standard Library Documentation

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 at 03:03 PM / ruby-doc.org

Ruby Class and Library Reference

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 at 03:02 PM / rubycentral.com

Using Bash's History Effectively

Thursday, April 07, 2005 at 11:14 AM / talug.org

Need to move away from history | grep -i

Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 at 02:34 PM / grammartips.homestead.com

I'm sure I always get these wrong and likely always will.

Index of /~twl/conferences/pycon2005

Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 11:32 AM / sauria.com

Very organized and thorough notes from PyCon.

Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at 12:08 PM / brpreiss.com

Nice.

Lucid Dreaming FAQ

Thursday, March 03, 2005 at 06:02 PM / lucidity.com

I tried to do this for two months straight in college but it never worked..

What's Special About This Number?

Thursday, March 03, 2005 at 12:23 AM / stetson.edu

Top Posting Is Evil

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at 01:31 PM / google.com

Stop it, I'm serious.

Python whitespace FAQ, or, Python is not Fortran 77

Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 04:04 AM / weblog.hotales.org

Vonage Third Party Call Control

Saturday, February 12, 2005 at 12:23 AM / secure.click2callu.com

Vonage hacking..

How To Write Unmaintainable Code

Monday, February 07, 2005 at 01:44 PM / mindprod.com

“In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the si

Subversion quick start

Saturday, February 05, 2005 at 09:44 PM / nedbatchelder.com

Quick guide to loading a new project into subversion.

Subversion for CVS Users

Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 03:54 PM / osdir.com

Title says it all..

My Experiences With Subversion

Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 03:50 PM / chiark.greenend.org.uk

Nice look at moving to subversion. Go into migrating from CVS, subversion idioms, gotchas, etc.

Version Control with Subversion

Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 03:52 AM / svnbook.red-bean.com

Entire subversion book on one page.

Social Security For Dummies

Saturday, January 22, 2005 at 03:12 PM / museworld.com

Understand how Social Security works and why Bush is saying there’s a “crisis”.

Death and Taxes

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 at 02:35 PM / deviantart.com

A visual look at where your tax dollars go. (hint: DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE)

Web Application Component Toolkit - Template View

Friday, December 24, 2004 at 01:58 AM / wact.sourceforge.net

Excellent look at various HTML and XML templating methodologies..

Python Idioms and Efficiency Suggestions

Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at 04:54 PM / jaynes.colorado.edu

excellent list of python Idioms

Python Tutorials, more than 100, sorted by topic and category

Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 03:26 AM / awaretek.com

nuf' said.

A Crash Course in Python

Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 12:02 AM / acm.uiuc.edu

Nice intro to Python HTML-based slides. This covers a ton of info in a very small space.

Practical Common Lisp

Monday, November 29, 2004 at 10:41 PM / gigamonkeys.com

Looks like a lot of real-world stuff in here and is also very recent.

GNU make Manual

Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 05:46 PM / gnu.org

All on one page :)

Official Rules for Calling Shotgun

Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 05:55 PM / homepages.nildram.co.uk

A guide to calling shotgun.

ZODB/ZEO Programming Guide

Monday, November 15, 2004 at 11:55 PM / zope.org

I think I'm going to give ZODB a try with my blogging system.

Fun With PrimeNumbers

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 01:21 AM / troubleshooters.com

Different methods of finding primes. Quantum machinary not required.

XHTML 1.0

Saturday, November 06, 2004 at 10:40 PM / w3.org

The recommendation..

Full CSS Property Compatibility Chart

Thursday, November 04, 2004 at 07:07 AM / corecss.com

red/green/yellow for specific css attribute support in major browsers.

Google Help Central

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 12:40 AM / google.com

perfect..

How do you whistle with your fingers in your mouth really loudly (or at all)?

Monday, October 25, 2004 at 04:49 PM / answers.google.com

note: trying to learn this at work seems to annoy people.

Lots of Random Facts

Thursday, October 21, 2004 at 01:46 PM / ehumorcentral.com

“Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously” — good to know!

A Tao of Regular Expressions

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 11:57 AM / sitescooper.org

Rixstep

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 11:55 AM / rixstep.com

“A repository of every keyboard secret in OS X.”

Guide to Lock Picking

Saturday, October 09, 2004 at 10:33 PM / lysator.liu.se

Quixote Programming Overview

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at 09:35 PM / mems-exchange.org

WDG HTML 4.0 Element Reference

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at 12:28 PM / htmlhelp.com

One of the nicer reference sheets for HTML 4.0.

Using inline frames (iframe elements) to embed documents into HTML documents

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at 10:41 AM / cs.tut.fi

Everything that you can possibly know about iframes.

Python __special_attributes__

Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 08:13 PM / python.org

Beware! Danger lies ahead…

Obsessively detailed map of Springfield

Saturday, September 18, 2004 at 02:06 AM / csupomona.edu

Map Homer’s daily route from home to moes, to work, to moes, and then back home.

Markdown Syntax Documentation

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 02:39 AM / daringfireball.net

Syntax Reference for the Markdown text markup grammer.

Magical Macintosh Key Sequences

Monday, September 13, 2004 at 10:38 PM / davespicks.com

Collection of poorly documented OS X key-sequences.

Python Built-in Functions

Monday, September 13, 2004 at 12:07 AM / python.org

List of built in functions (i.e. non-module) in Python.

Web Colors: html color names, hexidecimal values, hex codes

Friday, September 10, 2004 at 06:08 PM / halflife.ukrpack.net

Color name chart with hex codes and overlays.

GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

Thursday, September 09, 2004 at 07:00 PM / gnu.org

Goddam this is more shit than could ever possibly fit in my brain.

Jetspeed 1.5 API

Thursday, September 09, 2004 at 08:28 AM / portals.apache.org

Jetspeed 1 Enterprise Portal 1.5 API

J2SE 1.4.2

Thursday, September 09, 2004 at 08:26 AM / java.sun.com

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v 1.4.2 API Specification

Emacs reference card

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 08:53 AM / indiana.edu

Single page printable version available.

TAL/TALES & METAL Reference Guide

Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 10:07 PM / owlfish.com

SimpleTAL reference.

Python Programming FAQ

Sunday, August 15, 2004 at 01:22 PM / python.org

Frequently asked questions on the Python programming language. I didn’t see “Why does Python rock so hard?”

Python 2.3 Quick Reference

Saturday, August 14, 2004 at 12:23 AM / rgruet.free.fr

80% of what you need to find when coding in Python.