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<span class=“comment“>Patrick Hunlock – </span><a href=“http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Bookmarklets_–_The_Evil_Lurking_In_Your_Browser“ title=“Bookmarklets — The Evil Lurking In Your Browser“>Bookmarklets – The Evil Lurking In Your Browser</a>: „Bookmarklets are incredibly useful tools. They can put your favorite sites at your fingertips as easy as dragging the icon in the location bar to your bookmark bar — you can also drag RSS…

Joel Spolsky – Seven steps to remarkable customer service: „We treat each tech support call like the NTSB treats airliner crashes. Every time a plane crashes, they send out investigators, figure out what happened, and then figure out a new policy to prevent that particular problem from ever happening again. It’s worked so well for…

Alan Dean – HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST): „An activity diagram to describe the resolution of the response status code, given various headers.“

David Cummings – Access Denied – Firefox 2.0 breaks access keys on the PC: „Firefox 2.0 doesn’t actually break access keys, as was originally thought. Rather, the Firefox developers fixed a different bug that was four years old and decided to change access keys from Alt plus the number/letter to Alt plus Shift plus the…

Bob DuCharme – Introducing RDFa: „For a long time now, RDF has shown great promise as a flexible format for storing, aggregating, and using metadata. Maybe for too long—its most well-known syntax, RDF/XML, is messy enough to have scared many people away from RDF. The W3C is developing a new, simpler syntax called RDFa (originally…

„Woof is a small simple stupid webserver that can easily be invoked on a single file. […] Just do a $ woof filename and tell the recipient the URL woof spits out. When he got that file, woof will quit and everything is done.“

Paul Graham – Learning from Founders: „Suits do not help people to think better. I bet most executives at big companies do their best thinking when they wake up on Sunday morning and go downstairs in their bathrobe to make a cup of coffee. That’s when you have ideas. Just imagine what a company would…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – Pipes and Filters for the Internet: „Yahoo!’s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet. It’s a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.…