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this alternative IE6 warning message is much more to the point »« 21:29 24/10/09 | permalink | IE web

bring back free clicking. man, the nyt site bugs me »« 22:44 14/06/09 | permalink | nytimes ui web hacks

a little project from last week - iTunesRemote. control iTunes over the web »« 22:54 16/05/09 | permalink | itunes web php software awesome

wrote a little web-based itunes interface for remote controlling my media-server mac from my pc. screenshot on flickr and source code in svn »« 22:19 13/05/09 | permalink | software itunes web

aviary is very very well done. the demo videos are pretty well put together. barrier to doing something slick on the web has gone up a lot lately. »« 00:05 21/03/09 | permalink | design tools photoshop online software graphics web

warehouse looks pretty good, but it requires both ruby on rails (easy-ish to install) and the ruby-svn bindings (which are basically a bitch). why do the harder languages to get up and running on the web (ruby and python) require the bindings while the easier languages (php and perl) just shell out and so work easily? gah. currently using websvn in php which does a reasonable job and is trivial to set up. »« 19:13 28/02/09 | permalink | subversion svn browser tools development programming rails rubyonrails ruby web python

some beautiful icons to brighten your morning »« 10:45 24/09/08 | permalink | icons design web graphics

the window.name transport for dojo is utter genius. »« 12:32 23/07/08 | permalink | javascript coding web

brett graham is my new hero: brett corp, bringing solutions to people who need them when they need them on the day they needed them, after they've hired me. »« 16:47 04/04/08 | permalink | parody awesome web

drip for debugging IE memory leaks looks interesting - has anyone played with it? »« 13:26 28/11/07 | permalink | dev web

did i already link to the web version of elements of typographic style? i should have »« 11:44 19/11/07 | permalink | web type design

the apple iphone design guidelines contain a bunch of useful sizing and color info »« 22:54 26/09/07 | permalink | apple web iphone safari webkit

ohloh has some interesting views of open source projects - the committer sparklines are especially nice. like a much more polished version of a tool we use internally. »« 12:29 26/08/07 | permalink | code stats web

not sure why i'd never seen it before, but grabperf is pretty cool. only the html pull time, so it's not super useful for actual customer impact measurement, but still some interesting data (and nice graphs!) »« 12:10 26/08/07 | permalink | web data

lost garden is a lovely game design weblog and the challenge tileset is inspiring »« 17:05 20/08/07 | permalink | games design web

bookmarking for a later - fb code leaks »« 15:06 14/08/07 | permalink | code web php facebook

wordie is awesome, even ignoring the clever strap »« 23:19 13/08/07 | permalink | words clever web

fileformat.info has the best unicode codepoint reference docs i've seen [via ph] »« 16:37 13/08/07 | permalink | web programming unicode nerd

typetester is fun for messing about with fonts in css - very slick and simple »« 08:27 13/08/07 | permalink | typography web

i liked delicious more before it sold out. awesome old old old screen shots from joshua. »« 23:10 10/07/07 | permalink | old web screenshots delicious

a short useit article on using greeking to test usability of layouts. quite a simple technique which may be quite useful [via salt] »« 10:53 27/06/07 | permalink | usability web useit

the new sfo site is really quite beautiful, but it also reminds me of one of the design/type portals from the olden days - anyone remember which? »« 12:26 22/06/07 | permalink | design airports web

rails has reached that nasty stage where alot of people are using it and a hole is found. it's been handled interestingly, for sure »« 19:44 09/08/06 | permalink | rails coding web

looks like google auth is coming real soon »« 10:03 29/06/06 | permalink | google web auth

tim lucas talks about applying some of my asset serving principles in the RoR world in this sitepoint post »« 23:11 29/05/06 | permalink | web javascript

reflections were neat when apple first started doing it, but they're set to become web 2.0's blink tag »« 09:45 22/05/06 | permalink | web javascript

woo - vitamin is finally live! »« 13:14 18/04/06 | permalink | vitamin webdesign web carson

Building Scalable Web Sites : Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications - crumbs »« 12:35 27/01/06 | permalink | books web

from a php disucssion at work: "If you're willing to continually do the heavy lifting of ensuring that your version of Smalltalk96 on Rails stays concurrent with the latest patches". omg, how awesome would that be? »« 12:09 18/11/05 | permalink | rails smalltalk php language web coding

i'm trying out google analytics on iamcal for a few days to see what the dashboard looks like. looks fairly snazzy. »« 23:03 14/11/05 | permalink | google stats webanalytics web analytics

saft looks like a nice set of safari extensions. why hadn't i seen that before? »« 20:57 01/11/05 | permalink | apple safari software web hacks

flock is really doing the rounds at the moment. here's a nice bbc piece by paul mason. »« 15:10 27/10/05 | permalink | flock browser software web socialsoftware

forget flock - get flocq »« 13:43 22/10/05 | permalink | flock browser software web firefox

simplebits, purveyors of fine iconery, have created a nice set of 70 2-color icons for the web. not free though »« 11:19 09/10/05 | permalink | icons web graphics

oooh. tagyu looks really nice - web services interface coming soon. i'd like to build this into my posting interface. »« 16:36 07/10/05 | permalink | web webservices tagging tags

it's looks like there's an ajax-y version of subetha-edit - synchro edit is worth checking out. »« 16:11 07/10/05 | permalink | web ajax javascript editors subethaedit

forget web 2.0 - web 2.1 is where it's at »« 15:01 04/10/05 | permalink | web

rollyo is, as time says, "in the web 2.0 style". built on top of the y! search api. »« 14:04 30/09/05 | permalink | apis coding web web2.0

brian fling, d. keith robinson, matt may and nick finck have started blue flavor. might be one to watch in the near future. »« 20:29 26/09/05 | permalink | web agencies design ued ia seo usability

an excellent billie stalking article via coates, using the web for interesting purposes. »« 17:17 08/09/05 | permalink | billie stalking web

foopad is (i'm told) similar to protopage, but with more of a barrier to entry (requires signup). i don't have the time or inclination at the moment to have a poke around, but if it's any good then drop me a message in the forum. also, i'm back from the uk. »« 11:12 29/08/05 | permalink | wikis web

this guide to embedding google maps in your opwn pages is great. well written and containing everything i wanted to know. »« 11:33 09/08/05 | permalink | maps google javascript web

aparently i'm d keith robinson. i thought i'd seen the end of these things, but this one was fun. »« 19:14 05/07/05 | permalink | quizes web

the us patent office gives out some crazy patents. nice site. »« 02:23 03/06/05 | permalink | patents web

eric pointed me toward trixie, which implements greasemonkey functionality for IE. very very cool. »« 19:22 31/05/05 | permalink | ie web scripting coding greasemonkey firefox javascript

met the slowshirts lady at the flickr party tonight. along with estoban of b3ta. weird »« 23:17 26/05/05 | permalink | tshirts web b3ta

more from the midsts of (internet) time - the very first strip of "when i grow up", the pre-cursor to wigu, mais, overcompenstaing, etc »« 23:56 25/05/05 | permalink | web comics wigu jro

php diary is good. and linking to an old article of mine. which surely makes me more likely to lonk to them ;) »« 00:26 24/05/05 | permalink | php coding web

perplex city is a new mass-game. could be fun. $200,000 prize »« 21:45 14/05/05 | permalink | games online web

instructions for setting up a web browser on your psp. good stuff. »« 10:31 11/04/05 | permalink | psp web browser

george found this *awesome* app, which uses craigslist and google maps to produces an interactive map of apartments for rent. really fucking amazing. web services rule. »« 17:20 08/04/05 | permalink | web webservices maps google craigslist dhtml

net disaster is something i thought about ages ago but couldn't figure out how to do. very nice :) »« 15:49 08/04/05 | permalink | web fun

secret santa lives once more! thanks to all the people who helped this year, even if they were late and i told them i hated them. »« 18:00 19/11/04 | permalink | web

crumbs. everyone is talking about my php presentation. keith devens picks out the good bits. »« 14:25 27/10/04 | permalink | php web

clearly the problem with del.icio.us is that it's not just about porn. »« 14:13 27/10/04 | permalink | web

"the JMA operates a network of 180 seismographs and 600 seismic intensity meters and provides real-time earthquake reports to the media and on the internet". this is very cool. »« 09:56 25/10/04 | permalink | web

feeling spendy? maybe the best use of the amazon api i've seen so far. »« 14:23 18/10/04 | permalink | web

google's desktop search is now in public beta. it looks reallky fucking awesome. »« 10:28 14/10/04 | permalink | web

a very cute site from pb - baby jeremy is being photographed with lots of famous people. i wonder how he'll feel about it when he's older. »« 19:40 07/10/04 | permalink | web

laszlo have open sourced their product. will this hurt flex? or dojo? hmm »« 11:10 06/10/04 | permalink | software web

oooh - someone tracked down the history of "purple monkey dishwasher". i first came across it on kottke many years ago, and it's still the subtitle for my main mirc installation. »« 00:38 06/10/04 | permalink | web

randomly surfing around i came across tef's article about website authentication systems. some interesting points that are well worth reading before rolling your own systems. »« 21:10 03/10/04 | permalink | web

the god faq is an un-subtle work of genius »« 12:37 24/09/04 | permalink | web

the geography olympics are pretty fun. got 50% the first time and 90% the second. »« 16:12 02/09/04 | permalink | web

bookmarked because i've found this useful a number of times: an article about styling hr elements. »« 10:30 31/08/04 | permalink | web css

papernapkin is genius. automatic online rejection. i hope i wont need to use their services. »« 16:47 30/08/04 | permalink | web

playboy run a cpan mirror. bizarre »« 17:41 26/08/04 | permalink | perl web

unamerican still rocks. i need some of those stickers for the office. »« 13:39 25/08/04 | permalink | web

this rather snazzy color wheel stole my colorblind data values and tried to hide it. when i would have happily supplied them anyway. idiots. »« 22:20 24/08/04 | permalink | color web

audio scrobbler is getting swamped again. i wonder if any of our scaling experience for flickr would be of any use to the development team. »« 17:07 18/08/04 | permalink | web

on everything2 - the united states should go to war with everybody. excellent reasoning. »« 16:52 18/08/04 | permalink | web

blogger broke their v2 api today, which we've been using for flickr posting (since v1 doesn't support titles and their atom api is still sketchy). we've alerted the team and hopefully they'll get it fixed today. »« 18:50 16/08/04 | permalink | web

bah. netwindows is having to change it's name after a serious c&d from redmond. always squashing the little guy. perhaps not a wise choice of naming to start with. »« 21:52 10/08/04 | permalink | web tech

i usually hate this sort of crap, but my love of japanese characters means i'm quite enamoured by the japanaese name translator. i need more unicode sites to post stuff on. currently flickr is my only full-unicode product. »« 15:52 09/08/04 | permalink | web

i'm not sure if i've already linked to hugeurl or not. the premise is simple - it's a parallel to tinyurl, making regular urls alot longer. nice »« 13:02 05/08/04 | permalink | web

after shutting down their sms bidback service in the uk earlier this year, ebay have launched a new sms bidding service. shame i'm not in the uk any more. and that i already hjave too many sun and sgi boxes. »« 21:52 03/08/04 | permalink | web

wikiverse describes itself as "an up-to-date high speed static mirror of Wikipedia". it's currently soliciting linkage from all sorts of sites. i wonder if it's wikipedia endorsed. i suspect not. spam seems way too tacky for wikipedia. »« 21:06 03/08/04 | permalink | web

best domain ever? team fishcake. genius »« 21:47 02/08/04 | permalink | web

this guy/girl has done something nice with flickr - illustrating a 58 part story by picking out a keyword from each piece of the story, searching for a photo, then posting that part of the story as a comment on the photo, joining them together with links. »« 15:52 30/07/04 | permalink | web

the 4rthur dictionary of b3ta terms is like a fun, elitist version of the urban dictionary. minus the 100 recordings of people saying fuck. »« 10:07 30/07/04 | permalink | web

this seems like an interesting project if you have some devleopment slack - building peace corps sites in guyana. »« 21:27 29/07/04 | permalink | web

"If you are trapped in debris: Swear profusely. Try not to die.". the preparing for emergencies parody is utter genius. »« 10:42 29/07/04 | permalink | web

further investigation of the if-modified-since problem with apache and php appears to show that it's a bug in apache 2 and the php filter plugin. stupid stupid stupid. it can be worked around with an apache directive, although that also stops php from recieving the i-m-s header, so you can't handle the 304 response manually. »« 16:44 26/07/04 | permalink | code web

i've been saying it for years, but now jakob says it's the official first rule of usability engineering: "don't listen to users". »« 14:40 26/07/04 | permalink | web

urgh, stupid london bloggers domain has expired and messed up all the links to the network browser. stupid domains. »« 10:36 22/07/04 | permalink | web

i added all my most active contacts to imwatching to give it a try. turns out i'm online the most. wow, that was a suprise. »« 12:43 21/07/04 | permalink | web im

mp3blogs is doing nice traffic. simon reports 3000 pages on the first day, and since the site only has one page, that's reasonably impressive. »« 09:58 21/07/04 | permalink | web

i'm currently obsessed with weebl's magical trevor. weebl's songs are getting better and better, rivaling joel's giant bee. »« 12:12 20/07/04 | permalink | movie web

what's up with orkut this morning? it times out my sessions after a minute waiting for pages to load, claiming that my 30 minute sessions has expired. 4 times in ten minutes suggests i haven't been idle for 30 minutes... »« 11:10 20/07/04 | permalink | web

from a guy who emailed me, confused about colondee: "I sussed it out any way and to be honest I find it all quite boring and anyone that gets any pleasure out of it must be very sad and in need of a life.". err, right then. thanks. »« 11:02 20/07/04 | permalink | web

a new launch with simon waldman from the guardian: mp3blogs.org. »« 12:55 19/07/04 | permalink | web music weblogs

ubbdev is still going - i just got the email newsletter. wow. first time in a few years - i have a number of accounts there so get a fair few copies. those were the days, hey. 6+ years ago. »« 09:53 19/07/04 | permalink | web

wbwii (world browser war 2, natch) is not too far off it would seem. I'm still very firmly in the IE camp. »« 17:16 16/07/04 | permalink | web

this isn't london is a lovely london-centric anti-history weblog. see also today in alternate history and webb's now-defunct historical fact. »« 17:28 15/07/04 | permalink | web

imwatching is genius in a stalker kind of way. very similar to both mine and jake's gne player trackers, this web app tracks your aim buddies' presence over time. i think it'll show how often i'm online, which is a scary thing :/ »« 16:58 15/07/04 | permalink | web stalking aim im

apparently phil is the new jeff bezos. somewhat over the top complements from bobbie. »« 10:53 08/07/04 | permalink | web

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