Favourite Unicode CodepointsChris Ball
MCL 5.2 will soon be released as on open source project. It is Unicode based. It is PPC only. Perhaps this release will enable some combination of financial and engingeering resources to provide an Intel implementation.
Alice Hartley, lisp.mcl.general — No Intel… that’s a problem… but one that Digitool can get some help with now.
Talarico HardwoodsTons of photos of, usually big, slabs of wood
html5lib is an implementation of the HTML 5 parsing algorithm, available in both Python and Ruby flavours. The HTML 5 algorithm is based on reverse engineering the behaviour of popular web browsers and so is compatible with the myriad of broken HTML encountered on the web.
The WHATWG Blog
Sticking it to l'homme: Canadian co-op forms own ISP
Some ISPs simply discourage end users from offering WiFi connections to neighbors; most explicitly rule it out in their terms of service. But a small Canadian ISP called Wireless Nomad actually requires it.
Ars Technica — This looks very cool. I’m on the waiting list.
Speeding up email delivery on Rails
There’s one thing that has always bugged me: when using Sendmail to deliver email from Action Mailer in Ruby on Rails, it always takes a few seconds for the email to be sent, thus slowing down whatever task the user is trying to accomplish. … In the past, we fixed this behaviour by adding the email to a queue in the DB which was then processed by a cron script every few minutes. … What if Rails could simply pass the email to Sendmail and then get back to work?
The Wonsys Blog — I think I’ll give this a shot and see what happens.
Flash-Based Galleries For Your Images
if you’d like to present some multimedia-content, particularly images, Flash can often be a feasible solution, with flexible image management for web designers and impressive visual presentation for users. Used moderately, Flash-based galleries can give the presentation a fresh spark and create a rich visual experience you might want to offer your visitors.
In this post we present some of the free, attractive and flexible Flash-based galleries you can use to present your images more effectively.
Smashing Magazine
Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles we’ve found over the last 30 days - an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed in September 2007.
Smashing Magazine
Almost every freelancer needs some kind of written biography, a small piece that’s shorter than a resume but is more engaging to read. … I’ve written dozens of profiles of people, places and businesses, but as soon as I sit down to write about myself, I’m faced with the dreaded “white screen syndrome.” … I’m not sure what it is; am I worried that I’ll seem egotistical if I play myself up too much? Will I seem boring if I try to remain too objective? And of course, the possibility of inserting a little too much of my personality.
Freelance Switch — Hmm, I happen to be procrastinating on this right now, for a lot of the same reasons/fears :-)
After an incredible development period, full of challenges and enriched by brilliant ideas, here we are with the Beta for the most important release of FCKeditor since version 2.0. It brings not only Safari and Opera support, but also introduces incredibly powerful features.
FCKeditor — Well, after a couple of minutes checking out the demo, I think the problems that forced me to TinyMCE are resolved. I’ll have to take a closer look.
Top 10 Blogs for Web Designers
Today I’m doing a round up of the magazine-style blogs that are usefull for web designers. I prefer these over printed magazines as they’re quicker with the latest information and the quality is as good if not better than traditional mags.
Tutorial Blog
Learn F-Script in 20 Minutes...and Have Fun Playing with Core Image
F-Script is an open-source scripting layer dedicated to Cocoa. If you aren’t using it yet, this is your chance to learn how it can improve your productivity as well as those of the users of your own Cocoa applications. In this article, our goal will be to produce a nice little animation using fancy Core Image effects. In doing so, we will learn the basics of F-Script.
Philippe Mougin
Non-notorious CSS templates for websitesAjax Digest — Some nice collections of website templates.
