February 29, 2004, 8:36 pm
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 Churches ad Hoc: A Divine Comedy. The world produced half a million Libraries of Congress of print, film, and magnetically or optically stored data in 2002 (double the output in 1999), according to “How Much Information? 2003,” a report by researchers at UC-Berkeley’s School of Information Management and Systems.
February 29, 2004, 8:35 pm
“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.
February 29, 2004, 8:34 pm
DBDesigner4. MySQL Control Center. phpMyAdmin (seems widely used). DbVisualizer (cross-platform, cross-database). The book on MySQL: Paul DuBois’s MySQL Cookbook.
February 29, 2004, 8:24 pm
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. David Dorward presents an IE hack to enable centering of block elements with CSS. Tableless layout links at allmyfaqs.com. A CSS positioning and box model tutorial at brainjar.com. Styling forms with CSS. Will the browser apply the rule? — A nice chart at centricle.com.
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