May 2005
Friday, 20th May 2005
Google Maps Hacks at the Factory Tour. “... one of the engineers insinuated that they might be working on a Google Maps API ...”
Saturday, 21st May 2005
Eurovision scores
Aah sweet Eurovision. This time last year I was in Kansas, no one had even heard of it and I was forced to watch it over RealPlayer as it wasn’t being carried by any of the TV channels. This year, we’ve had a Eurovision party. Here are our scores:
[... 261 words]Monday, 23rd May 2005
Testing a new version of IXR
Almost two years to the day since the last release, I’ve put together a new version of IXR, my PHP XML-RPC library. I haven’t published it on the site just yet as I want to make sure any bugs are ironed out first, but you can grab a copy here:
[... 177 words]Tuesday, 24th May 2005
Fixing web applications with Greasemonkey
In Greasemonkey FUD, I highlighted the importance of Greasemonkey as a tool for fixing interface problems in “enterprise” web applications. DJ Adams has done exactly that for OSS Notes, part of the SAP service portal. His user script ditches the frames in the interface, makes the page title more useful and adds hyperlinks to other note references on the page—significantly improving the user experience in less than 40 lines of code. The improvements are clearly explained in the accompanying screencast.
[... 101 words]The Web Application Leap. Read this if you care about web applications (or Ajax).
Wednesday, 25th May 2005
[pypy-dev] PyPy released! A full Python implementation written in Python.
Tweaking WordPress With Greasemonkey (via) More application interface enhancements.
Thursday, 26th May 2005
The Rails BetaBook is Ready. Buy the book + beta PDF, get the PDF now and the dead-tree book when it’s finished.
IBM: ’LAMP’ users need to grow up (via) Which is why Friendster switched from JSP to PHP. Pfft.
Friday, 27th May 2005
Greasemonkey: Yet Another Reason to Use Firefox. Great writeup of Greasemonkey on the PC World Techlog(!)
Saturday, 28th May 2005
manchot. French penguins. (I’m demoing my blogmarks system).
Sunday, 29th May 2005
XHTML2: Accessible, Usable, Device Independent and Semantic (via) XHTML2 looks pretty smart. I’ll be amazed if it ever takes off though.
[Greasemonkey] a difference in vision. Check out the last paragraph. I got a kick out of it.
Monday, 30th May 2005
IBM poop heads say LAMP users need to “grow up”. Ryan blows away a ton of the myths surrounding LAMP.
Nope. We call bullshit. After wasting years of our lives trying to implement physical three tier architectures that "scale" and failing miserably time after time, we're going with something that actually works.
Tuesday, 31st May 2005
Trixie: Greasemonkey for IE (via) Second attempt—but it’s still closed source.
Google Translator: The Universal Language (via) Their new approach to translation is utterly brilliant.
Google Code: Summer of Code. “Google will provide a $4500 award to each student who successfully completes an open source project by the end of the Summer.”