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Kayodeok's Headlines for June 2004

Wednesday 30 June 2004

Web Development

• Ensuring your Web pages are accessible to all via Isolani
• Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style
• A regular expression to check for valid UTF-8
• Configuring and Using Virtual Hosts in Apache

Programming

• php script for Atom feed of a directory
• Website Database Basics With PHP and MySQL via leusche.org
• Quick and Dirty Search Engine with PHP and MySQL
• A Novice's Guide to Program Development - Part 1 of 3
• A Novice's Guide to Program Development - Part 2 of 3
• A Novice's Guide to Program Development - Part 3 of 3

Monday 28 June 2004

Web Development

• Web Forms 2.0: Call For Comments - 27 June 2004
• 5 questions to ask your web development team
• Windows Explorer vs. the Standards
• Quick guide to UTF-8
• Sam Ruby's PHP 1252->UTF8 converter
• Explaining CSS Positioning in Greater Detail via Minz Meyer
• Making the Absolute, Relative via Minz Meyer

Programming

• Generating CSS with PHP via Forever Geek
• Profiling Perl
• Building a Site Engine Using PHP, Part 3

Wednesday 23 June 2004

Security

• Computer 'sick' days revealed
• Blind Get Earful of Spam Daily

Web Development

• CSS Naming Conventions: What's in a name
• CSS Naming Conventions: What's in a name (pt2)
• IE Market Share... and Why It Matters
• The cost of supporting non-standards
• Sick Of IE6

Programming

• A Fresh Look at Efficient Perl Sorting
• Why isn't php.net running on PHP 5?
• PHP Gotchas: Part 1
• Guide to migrating from ASP to PHP
• Vim Cookbook
• Programming with bash
• Push vs. Pull templating

Sunday 20 June 2004

Web Development

• The Atom Link Model
• Creating Well-Formed XML Documents
• PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss via Isolani
• How to upgrade to firefox 0.9
• Time to Dump Internet Explorer
• PDFs: not quite unlinkable
• No More www. in Your URI via Anne Van Kesteren

Programming

• Develop rock-solid code in PHP: Lay the foundation, Part 1 via Isolani
• Develop rock-solid code in PHP: Use variables effectively, Part 2
• Develop rock-solid code in PHP: Write reusable functions, Part 3
• MD5 and passwords via Photo Matt
• Introduction to Static and Dynamic Typing
• Perl's Special Variables

Thursday 17 June 2004

Web Development

• Character Encoding and HTML Forms
• Web Hypertext Application Technology
• Why can't a newspaper be more like a blog
• Ways to talk with Internet Explorer team

Commentary

• How Microsoft Lost the API War

Programming

• A Practical Guide to Active Server Pages
• Using Emacs for Perl Programming
• Interesting Things to Know about MySQL
• PHP on the Command Line - Part 1
• Reading and Writing Registry Keys with Visual Basic

Science

• Teleportation breakthrough made

Tuesday 15 June 2004

Web Development

• CSS 2 Selector Fundamentals via 456 Berea Street
• Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins
• Dynamically Conjuring Drop-Down Navigation
• Dynamic Text Replacement

Windows News

• Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 now available for download

Programming

• Backing Up and Restoring Your MySQL Database

Science

• Terraserver - an online database of aerial photographs of the United States via Macromedia Weblogs

Monday 14 June 2004

Web Development

• Accessible HTML/XHTML Forms
• First Look at Mozilla Firefox 0.9 via Forever Geek
• Firefox 0.9 Tour
• Server Project: WordPress on Windows XP
• Make FeedDemon look like a Usenet newsreader
• Orderedlist.com: Bending the Matrix
• What is an accessible Website? via dwh
• The Definitive Post on Gzipping your CSS
• URL Rewriting
• The real reason you should care about web standards

Tips

• Troubleshooting Stop Errors
• RunDLL 32 Reference Guide via svoc

Programming

• A tutorial on vim (2 of 3 parts)
• PHP Security Mistakes
• The Evolution of Perl Email Handling
• Building a Site Engine with PHP, Part 2
• Searching for the Best Scripting Language
• 'Game': Fun with databases

Tuesday 08 June 2004

Security

• Threat Modeling Resources via Dana Epp
• CPU-based security for Windows XP, Red Hat Linux coming

Web Development

• Web Style Guide
• 101 ways to improve your news site via Gadgetopia
• Redesign of the Internet Movie Database: Whitespace announces 3 finalists

Commentaries

• Ten evangelism and IT lessons from one of America's biggest churches

Programming

• Building a Site Engine with PHP, Part 1
• We're Not in Hungary Anymore: Microsoft's .NET Naming Guidelines
• A tutorial on vim (1 of 3 parts)

Saturday 05 June 2004

Web Development

• Aggregator i18n tests
• Internet Explorer To Mozilla Migration Guide
• 10 reasons for web standards
• How not to use CSS
• plog: a personalized blog from Amazon
• Tutorial: Using WordPress to Power Your Non-Blog Website
• Welcome to the Internet. No one here likes you.

Commentaries

• Broken Windows (Windows is broken because we tolerate it)

Tips

• A fresh install Fedora Core 2 Guide for Novices

Programming

• Creating Your Own Blog Script: Part 1
• Creating Your Own Blog Script: Part 2
• Web Testing with HTTP::Recorder
• The Parable of the Languages

Wednesday 02 June 2004

Web Development

• Dean Edward's IE7 Version 0.6 Released
• Web Standards ROI (or The benefits of Web Standards)
• Lorem Ipsum with other charsets
• Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser Wars Reignite via Simon Willison's Blogmarks

Tips

• A Windows user's guide to getting started with Linux

Programming

• alt.php faq
• The Case Against SELECT * via The Farm
• FindBugs, Part 1: Improve the quality of your code
• FindBugs, Part 2: Writing custom detectors
• The Evolution of a Programmer