http://simonwillison.net/2003-07-10T13:52:43+00:00Simon Willison2003-07-10T13:52:43+00:002003-07-10T13:52:43+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2003/Jul/10/clearout/#atom-tag

<ul> <li>Tristan Louis' <a href="http://www.tnl.net/blog/entry/RSS2Necho">RSS to Necho convertor</a> puts paid to the idea that the success of one format will be detrimental to the usefulness of the other.</li> <li>O'Reilly's RegExp Power series (<a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/06/regexps.html" title="Regexp Power">part one</a> and <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/07/01/regexps.html" title="Power Regexps, Part II">part two</a>) demonstrate some powerful tricks for use with Perl compatible regular expressions.</li> <li>Norman Walsh explains <a href="http://norman.walsh.name/2003/07/02/conneg">Content Negotiation</a> and some of the pitfalls with modern browser implementations.</li> <li>So <a href="http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/t/51809/11f30324974ff57f0779a36abf0b7ebdds.html" title="No more Mister Biffo">that's</a> what happened to Digitiser. See also a <a href="http://www.lynn3686.freeserve.co.uk/digitiser.html">Digitiser Tribute</a> and a <a href="http://www.geocities.com/flyingturduk/biffo.html">Mr Biffo interview</a> from 2001 for background information. I cuss you bad.</li> <li><a href="http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html">George Orwell: Politics and the English Language</a></li> <li>Clay Shirky: <a href="http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html">A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy</a>. The title is misguiding; this is an essay about how online groups behave and how to look after them.</li> <li>A <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/">Java HttpClient Class</a>.</li> <li>Some good stuff on Boxes and Arrows: <a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/ten_quotable_moments_challenges_and_responses_for_ui_designers.php">Ten Quotable Moments: Challenges and Responses for UI Designers</a> and <a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/views_and_forms_principles_of_task_flow_for_web_applications_part_1.php">Views and Forms: Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications (Part 1)</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.lynnparkplace.org/vot/archives/accessibility/000050.html">Inside our notions of "document"</a> and <a href="http://www.lynnparkplace.org/vot/archives/accessibility/000051.html">Inside our documents II - the Runoff model</a>.</li> <li>5 days worth of XSLT observations from Simon St. Laurent: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3339" title="XSLT Training, Day 1">One</a>, <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3345" title="XSLT Training, Day 2">Two</a>, <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3350" title="Labels vs. Types and Other Culture Clashes">Three</a>, <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3356" title="Switching Gears - XSL-FO, Day 1">Four</a>, <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3363" title="XSL-FO, Day 2">Five</a>.</li> <li>Windows programming with open source tools: <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">Minimalist GNU For Windows</a> and <a href="http://webclub.kcom.ne.jp/ma/colinp/win32/">Win32 Programming with GNU C and C++</a>.</li> </ul> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clay-shirky">clay-shirky</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digitiser">digitiser</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/george-orwell">george-orwell</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/httpclient">httpclient</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java">java</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/perl">perl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/regexp">regexp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rss">rss</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/simon-st-laurent">simon-st-laurent</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/windows">windows</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xslt">xslt</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tristan-louis">tristan-louis</a></p>