On The Use of Code in Weblog Titles
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
Getting a feel for Emacs on OS X.
Sinatra: 29 Links and Resources For A Quicker, Easier Way to Build Webapps
Peter Cooper: “Lots of awesome articles about Sinatra, Sinatra apps, and various links and resources have cropped up over the past few months. The remainder of this post links to the best we've found – most of which you should find useful as you start to explore Sinatra in detail.”
alan.dean's REST Bookmarks on Delicious
Alan Dean has bookmarked over 100 REST related articles in the past two days (and 757 all time). For comparison, I've been bookmarking REST related articles since July 2004 and have a total of 107 bookmarks. It appears that Dean is shooting for a comprehensive list of every resource related to REST ever posted on the web.
Web Development for the iPhone
“You can specify CSS based on viewport orientation which you determine via javascript and update the orient attribute of the body element. Target the browser with body[orient=‘landscape’] or body[orient=‘portrait’]”
Ruby's $LOADED_FEATURES (Array of stuff that's been required)
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
What Mark Pilgrim has been working on at Google for the past year or so: an encyclopedia of web development.
Git for Computer Scientists
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.
20 Year Archive on Google Groups
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
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?
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)
“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.”
The Federalist Papers
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
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
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
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
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
Comprehensive look at common Rails security concerns with links out to in-depth articles.
HTML Entity Character Lookup
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]
Beautifully done, sir. This should be required reading before anyone is allowed to hit an onramp.
Using mutt on OS X [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
A complete look at the little used utilities for processing arguments in scripts.
HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST)
Nice activity diagram describing the resolution of response status codes given various request methods and headers. Full res GIF, JPEG, PNG, and SVG.
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.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
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.
Javascript Event compatibility tables
Nice list of DOM events and the varying support of different browsers.
Journalism and weblogs, part 327
Word. Authority has been set on its head. There’s been no better time in history to be an ornery bastard. :)
Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT
I'm sure I always get these wrong and likely always will.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
“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
My Experiences With Subversion
Nice look at moving to subversion. Go into migrating from CVS, subversion idioms, gotchas, etc.
Social Security For Dummies
Understand how Social Security works and why Bush is saying there’s a “crisis”.
Web Application Component Toolkit - Template View
Excellent look at various HTML and XML templating methodologies..
A Crash Course in Python
Nice intro to Python HTML-based slides. This covers a ton of info in a very small space.
Full CSS Property Compatibility Chart
red/green/yellow for specific css attribute support in major browsers.
How do you whistle with your fingers in your mouth really loudly (or at all)?
note: trying to learn this at work seems to annoy people.
Using inline frames (iframe elements) to embed documents into HTML documents
Everything that you can possibly know about iframes.
Obsessively detailed map of Springfield
Map Homer’s daily route from home to moes, to work, to moes, and then back home.
Web Colors: html color names, hexidecimal values, hex codes
Color name chart with hex codes and overlays.
Python Programming FAQ
Frequently asked questions on the Python programming language. I didn’t see “Why does Python rock so hard?”