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You'll laugh at the signs, then get a little sad because they're so accurate.
About once a year, I run into a problem where I need to sling Unicode (turns out scientists and math folks really dig those Greek characters). Inevitably, this means a few hours fumbling around with converting to and from Unicode, along with endless trolling though Unicode tables to verify I'm doing things right. If you have a minute, check out counting rod numerals in the "Other Ancient Scripts" section. Fascinating, and practical!
When you find yourself cursing Unicode, and you will, remember that you bookmarked this post that goes into great detail on how to use Python to handle Unicode.
Trust me. In six months you're going to hit Unicode, and you'll remember "Hey! I remember seeing something about this somewhere...if only I could remember..."
When you find yourself cursing Unicode, and you will, remember that you bookmarked this post that goes into great detail on how to use Python to handle Unicode.
Trust me. In six months you're going to hit Unicode, and you'll remember "Hey! I remember seeing something about this somewhere...if only I could remember..."
WebDevLounge has a huge list of CSS resources (with summaries), broken down into categories:
[via A Continuous Learner's Weblog]
- basics
- writing good code
- css frameworks
- css layouts
- navigation,
- forms
- cross browser tips
[via A Continuous Learner's Weblog]
If you're fighting the signal to noise ratio in your feed reader like me, you'll enjoy having A Continuous Learner's Weblog on your reading list.
Steve Pietrek (an Ohio boy!) collects handy links almost daily and posts them up. There's a definite lean towards .NET stuff, but also a lot of quality web and programming links.
Steve Pietrek (an Ohio boy!) collects handy links almost daily and posts them up. There's a definite lean towards .NET stuff, but also a lot of quality web and programming links.
Smashing Magazine has a nice series of posts on favicons, with plenty of examples (broken down by theme, like "dark") to help inspire:
- Part 1: Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons
- Part 2: Inspire Yourself: More Creative Favicons
- Part 3: Creative Favicons: When Small Is Beautiful
- Part 4: Creative Favicons: Tiny Artwork
- Episode 5: The Delicate Beauties
- Favicon Episode 6: Black, Abstract and Hand-Drawing
- Episode 7
- Sean McGrath on how to get the most out of XML with the least pain.
- A few quick tips for working on multiple projects. More appropriate for the indie folks, but still useful for the corporate programmer. Just replace 'client' with 'project manager'.
- Yay! A possible practical benefit of all the microformat-ed stuff on your site.
- The lowdown on using Python and Dojo for some easy deployment. (I work with this combination, and deployment is easily half the battle).
John Rockefeller posted his Top 5 Firefox Extensions for Web Developers. It looks pretty good. I find #3 a little on the bubble, though. The Google Toolbar already shows PageRank, but maybe searchstatus is a better use of real estate.
Here are some bloggers I know personally. Check them out, yo:
When I get around to adding Code Softly's blogroll, they'll be on it.
When I get around to adding Code Softly's blogroll, they'll be on it.
- Flickling Challenge - A game to test your search powers and help research at the same time. If you can tolerate the registration, it's kinda fun and addicting. [ via The Noisy Channel ]
- Experience wins the day. A nice writeup of how carpentry applies to software, and how experience counts.
- Singletons are Dumb. I think I agree.
- Beautiful Things are More Usable - [via Andy Budd]
