22 Mar 2005

March Link Dump

Stuff I noted down that’s worth a link and a sentence:

GeoURL (2.0)

It’s finally back (only a few sites near here though).

CSS Reboot

An attempt to get more non-Flash sites involved in the May 1st Reboot community project (everyone launches redesigned sites on the same day).

Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System

A free cross-platform alternative to FrontPage and Dreamweaver (there’s also a Windows version that’ll run from a USB drive).

Magic Quotes Headaches

PHP is free, included with most hosting plans, and powerful enough to work with, but it also has some infuriatingly brain-dead features.

The Next Big Thing in Online Type

Good to see Microsoft producing new fonts and improving rendering (currently it’s almost worth buying a Mac just for the way OS X displays text).

Nutch

Promising-looking open source search engine software based on Lucene.

Page Hijack: The 302 Exploit, Redirects and Google

If you’ve got a site and haven’t yet protected it then have a read.

That Sinking Feeling

This one seems to have spread everywhere (York University folklore had a variation involving the chemistry dept.’s water tower sinking when filled).