Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser. You’ll first learn basic cross-browser development techniques, and then develop strategies for overcoming the differences between Mozilla and Internet Explorer.”
read at IBM developerWorks
Google has released a Google Maps API.
This is a huge deal. See this from CNET:
After Jobs’ presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. “That doesn’t preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will,” he said. […]
From Eric Hellman of Openly:
I think that libraries should consider returning to their historic roots that have nothing to do with “search”.Forget search- a billion dollars says that Google and Amazon will do search way better than any real library on the planet, and libraries can now leverage these searching capabilities in very real ways.
What […]
Chicagocrime.org lists reported crimes by type and displays the location of the crime on an inserted Google Maps display. Pretty nice integration. From BB
The latest Ars OS X review has been posted and covers a lot of details of 10.4.
Battelle on Google Keyhole Integration Update
Memorymaps
myGmaps enables you to create, save and host custom data files and display them with Google Maps.
Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets
Google Maps Standalone Mode
housingmaps.com powered by craigslist and google maps
Over at IBM’s developerWorks Peter Seebach writes about Naturally occurring standards. (4.12.5)
NPR has an interview with Donald Knuth, author of the multi-volume Art of Computer Programming and creator of TEX.
Earlier this month, Greg Duffy posted a fascinating dissection of Google Print with details on how Google’s cookie apparently works and an algorithm for getting past the copyright restrictions. Excerpt:
Most web browsers allow small text files, called cookies, to be stored on behalf of web servers … this allows a persistent state to be […]
I was browsing Apple-related forums and came across a nice long list of all of the new Tiger features. There are rumors that it will be coming out as soon as next month and I’m really excited to see some of the new features, in particular Core Data (bottom of page). Click below […]
From the FlickrBlog:
Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!! Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks!
And here I am reading Hackers and Painters and Paul Graham’s experiences with the same thing.
By the […]
Google is now strongly backing developers and open source with Google Code. Nice to see that the code is also hosted on SourceForge. There’s also an Updates from code.google.com blog over at blogger.
This is PSA for the non-programmers:
It’s pretty often that I’m on a web page and want to know when it was last modified in order to see if the info is out of date. By typing this command into the address bar when you are on a page or saving it as a bookmark […]
I don’t have many of the same complaints a lot of folks have about Perl. It’s a powerful language that’s simple to use once you have the basics down and is full of shortcuts that allows for a lot of creativity. However, I’ve really wanted to look at Python for a while, largely […]
Just a quick pointer to the O’Reilly History of Programming Languages poster, the O’Reilly language poster wiki, and the original creator’s site for it.