Archive for February, 2004
Texts
Justin Kruger and David Dunning, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.” Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams. “The Social Life of Paper” by Malcolm Gladwell. Read Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe one word at a time. Herman Krieger’s [...]
HTML
“The Semantic Web” — Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila in Scientific American, May 2001. Some cogent skepticism about semantic markup. “XHTML 2.0 Considered Harmful” thread at lists.w3c.org. HTML table art. HTML preprocessors: The Dolt and PPWizard. The University of Minnesota-Duluth’s web design reference page, including lots of PHP links.
Database Frontends
DBDesigner4. MySQL Control Center. phpMyAdmin (seems widely used). DbVisualizer (cross-platform, cross-database). The book on MySQL: Paul DuBois’s MySQL Cookbook.
CSS
Considerations (beyond the obvious) for choosing when to use id and class attributes, and Mark Newhouse’s Environmental Style essay. Also Tantek Çelik on using only “a touch of class.” Barry Pearson on the history of tables in HTML and deficiencies in CSS positioning. Links to about a thousand websites that get along without layout tables. [...]
moi.org
Galleries
Photographs by Daniel Blaufuks. Found photographs at Look at Me and Discards. Ukrainian bus shelters. Images of explosive demolition. Lostlabor.com: “Images of vanished American workers, 1900-1980.” A New York City photoblog at Satan’s Laundromat. Thousands of photographs of The Leaning Tower of Pisa. The Random Personal Picture Finder.
Weblogs
Technorati Top 100. Dive into Mark. Tantek Çelik’s weblog. Bushrice04.org (that could be ephemeral). Mars Rover Weblog. Leather Egg. Blanketfort. I Am Eating My Husband’s Soul.