Jahr: 2003

Raymond Chen: „The Indian government threatened to ban all Microsoft software from the country because we assigned a disputed region to Pakistan in the time zone map.“

Tony Stubblebine on ONLamp.com: „1. Use Whitespace and Comments 2. Write Tests 3. Group the Alternation Operator 4. Use Lazy Quantifiers 5. Use Available Delimiters“

PHPEclipse.de has (German) installation instructions for PHP support within the Eclipse IDE.

I’d love to go to school again: „The Diocese of Columbus Department of Education is undertaking one of the first wide-scale deployments of Tablet PC technology in an educational environment. They have partnered with HP and their TC1000 Tablet PC.“

Mindmeld seems to have a rather narrow focus, but the description sounds nice (and it’s free software): „Mindmeld is an enterprise-capable knowledge-sharing system. It is an effective tool for any web community that needs to capture and share information, and is unique in that the knowledgebase grows smarter every time it’s used. It only knows…

Norman Walsh on XML.com: „Escaping markup, particularly with CDATA sections, just doesn’t work. There are other things that might be wrong that would make the documents not well formed. There are Unicode characters that are forbidden, there are encoding issues for the characters that are allowed, and there are sequences of characters that must be…

FFII: „The FFII is organizing an online demonstration against software patents. We want you to replace the title page of your project’s site with a protest page against software patents (for examples see below) on August 27th.“

Thies and Sterling Hughes speed up PHP…

It’s always a joy to see that some friendly person uses, and even promotes, software you’ve written – in this case, my OracleEditor.php script.

Gary Burd and Adam Shand both compiled lists of new, interesting “information client” software (the likes of Chandler and Haystack)…