Another essential Joel on Software essay: Back to Basics wherein Joel shows the deficiencies of strcat, dumb linear algorithms and their ilk and shows their effects on micro and macro software architecture.
9:51:10 PM
Why Gnome and KDE are misguided aka why the original Unix text command line of tools philosphy should be adapted to GUIs instead of re-inventing the Mac GUI interface on Linux.
9:34:47 PM
The Good Easy - how to make Mac OS 9 organized and free from clutter and thereby make yourself more productive. Should be easily adaptable to OS X.
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Fimoculous is yet another cool looking blog.
9:28:20 PM
XML Tip: Using CSS2 to display XML documents - "Outside of custom editors and viewers, reading XML data is comparatively difficult. A lightweight approach for viewing XML is to attach a cascading style sheet (CSS2) to XML documents and then use a recent Web browser to view them (Mozilla is excellent, IE often adequate). developerWorks columnist David Mertz takes a look at this alternative approach in this tip."
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Intro to programming in LXP - "Summary:
LXP (also known as mod_lxp) is an application server that runs as an Apache DSO (Dynamic Shared Object) module. It is designed to allow for the simplified development of data-driven, dynamic Web sites involving support for XML and SQL. This installment details the basics in creating an application with LXP. (3,000 words)"
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