• Capistrano: Home
  Capistrano finally has an official home, and the soon-to-be-released version 2 looks like a nice upgrade.
  (tags: capistrano deployment)
• Coalition For Free Broadband Now
  I’m not sure that free broadband should be a priority when so many people are without healthcare, and most of those who can’t afford broadband don’t have computers, but it would be interesting to see what impact this had.
  (tags: digitaldivide freebroadband)
• Introducing http:BL | Project Honey Pot
  Interesting idea. They’re offering an apache module that will help you use their blacklist to prevent requests from known spammer IPs from reaching your pages. Sounds a bit like akismet for IP blocking.
  (tags: apache blacklist honeypot spamdefense)
• How to prevent HTML tables from becoming too wide | 456 Berea Street
  So _that’s_ what the CSS table-layout attribute is useful for…
  (tags: CSS HTML layout tables)

Recommend this post:

I am not a graphic designer. One look at the current state of this blog should tell anyone that. But when I have to explain to non-techies what it is I do all day (and many evenings), it’s not unusual for them to walk away with the idea that I’m a “web designer.” Perhaps they’re right, if you take that in its broad sense to mean designing how certain things work on the web.

Whatever the semantics, I was pleased to see A List Apart taking the initiative to learn a little bit more about this industry in which many of us not only work, but seem to live a good chunk of our lives. If you’re reading this, you probably ought to complete the survey. Find it here.

Recommend this post:

• On Ruby: Some Real World Performance notes on Ruby 1.8 and 1.9
  Pat Eyler is seeing a 2.5x performance increase between Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.9.0. That’s a release that can’t come quickly enough.
  (tags: performance ruby)
• "Mad Dog" Murdoch to Teach a Generation How To Read The News - Gizmodo
  "According to Reuters, the service will be a combination of Google News and Digg"
  (tags: aggregation myspace news)
• MySpace News
  MySpace’s new "social news" aggregator has launched. Not quite so ugly as most of the rest of their site, but not particularly enticing
  (tags: aggregation myspace news)

Recommend this post:

• Google AJAX Feed API
  "With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API."
  (tags: ajax api atom google rss syndication)
• From enclosure to co-operative 2.0? | Tom Chance’s website
  Still thinking about this one — "Web 2.0 is a far cry from this idea of real cultural freedom - it creates a proprietary space for centralisation, limited expression and exploitation, albeit far more open than the traditional media."
  (tags: critique freeculture web2.0)
• Patterns for things that change with time
  (tags: chronology patterns)

Recommend this post:

• Sneaky Abstractions: RESTful XHTML
  Plugin making it very easy to return xhtml to those user agents that want it.
  (tags: contentnegotiation plugins rubyonrails xhtml)
• Don’t even leave a footprint - Yodel Anecdotal
  Yahoo have announced they’re going to try and go carbon neutral this year. Glad that it sounds like they’re attempting to reduce their footprint as well as offset what’s left
  (tags: carbonneutral environment yahoo)

Recommend this post: