Links from 2006

A mechanism for non-Yahoo applications to access Yahoo’s authentication mechanism and user data in a secure manner.

The #1 rule of good criticism is be specific.

there is the problem of how to 'monetise' Myspace activity. Advertising is an obvious answer, but the kinds of pages that Myspace users create - complete with flashing images, conflicting colours and unreadable text - are an ad man's nightmare.

A suite of tools and libraries that help make your life easier and your time more productive as a developer of AJAX and Mozilla applications.

It turns out there's a good kind of Agile, although it's taken me a long time to be able to see it clearly amidst all the hype and kowtowing and moaning feverishly about scrums and whatnot.

a 5 minute demonstration of the open source content management system eZ publish

Unless you have lots of legacy content that contains presentaional markup and cannot easily be converted or cleaned up, go Strict

In this page a problem that IE/Win has with italic text is described, with some (partial) fixes.

Fixing "the background flicker that happens when you hover a link that has an image as its backgound"

Nomensa investigated the accessibility of websites belonging to the top 30 most popular online retailers, based on visits from UK shoppers.

Usability agency Nomensa tested the retail websites and found that none fulfilled the most basic accessibility guidelines.

Training courses to bring developers, architects, and administrators up to speed with Subversion™ in a swift and cost efficient way.

A very early iteration of a microformats cheat sheet. It lists the properties by format and also lists each format and the hierarchy. This includes elemental microformats, compound microformats and some of the standard design patterns used.

Why do Macs, iPods, iBooks and the rest of their product range contain hazardous substances that other companies have abandoned?

Over the years, I’ve found quite some interesting unknown quirky facts about these shorthands…

reformats and compresses Web pages for optimal use on nearly any type of handheld device on the market.

An entertainment company located near Vancouver BC Canada which focuses on producing humorous original content for the internet and beyond.

The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and companies using Ajax that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies.

OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.

Drivers pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than when overtaking bare-headed cyclists, increasing the risk of a collision, the research has found.

Leading independent mental health organisation in Islington

System utility that greatly simplifies managing your Smartphone. CopyPaste does exactly what its name says in any editable field – edit box. Copy or cut the info from an edit box and paste it to another one.

UK Public Recycling Database

Search through almost 70,000 volunteering opportunities and apply online.

The UK's leading sustainable transport charity

"Give out your web site - on CD, DVD, USB stick or laptop." Hmmm.

Microformat tools

Remix cinema. You can be part of a groundbreaking new project to fund, make, and distribute a £1 million film using the Internet.

We’ll give you a way to detect your visitors’ initial font size setting—and a way to find out whenever your visitor increases or decreases the font size.

A few new CSS hacks that work in Internet Explorer 7

The problem is that your server is not specifying a character set for the style sheet, so the browser has to guess. There is no canonical way to guess.

Here are most of the contents of my C:/UTILS folder. These are all well loved and used. I wouldn't recommend them if I didn't use them constantly.

Flash guide to London

Dalston-based gallery.

You may not be aware, unless you’ve read the actual DOCTYPE documents themselves (and frankly, who wants to do that?) that the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE tells you to avoid using the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE if you can.

"If there were RSS feeds, users could read a privacy policy when they first started using a service, then subscribe to the RSS feed using whatever feed service they use. They wouldn’t have to regularly check the web site for updates, and they wouldn’t

Eco-correspondent, Richard Hammond, picks 30 of the best green places to stay around the world.

A GUI (Graphical User Interface) for Wget. It is FREE. It will keep track of your downloads - add, clone, edit, delete jobs.

By encrypting messages before they leave your computer to the Internet, SimpLite-MSN prevents eavesdroppers from reading your MSN Messenger conversations.