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Federal Court rules Sensis has no copyright on directories
The Federal Court of Australia has ruled that Sensis holds no copyright to its White Pages and Yellow Pages directories.
jsoup HTML parser launches
Today, I am announcing the public beta launch of jsoup, an open source Java HTML parser for dealing with real-world HTML.
Announcing Unicode Lookup
Over the weekend I built Unicode Lookup, a tool that lets you search for any Unicode character by name, or by codepoint number. A table of the characters with their decimal, octal, hex, and HTML entity representations is shown as results.
Oddball “DRM” on MISaustralia.com
Have a look at this article on MISaustralia. The first sign that something’s awry is their use of a monospace font for body copy.
Now try selecting some of the body text: only every second letter gets highlighted.
Take a look at the HTML source and you see this is deliberate: they are using JavaScript to overlay [...]
Review: On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
On the Edge, by Brian Bagnell, tells the history of Commodore, from their entry into and development of the personal computer industry, to their massive collapse just 15 years later.
Review: Programming Collective Intelligence
Programming Collective Intelligence is a book about applying data mining techniques to analyse collections of data. There is submerged information in Ebay prices, in Facebook profile networks, in collections of movie reviews, in news sites, in the stockmarket; this book by Toby Segaran shows ways to extract, visualise, understand, and predict that information.
Why are mouse sensors in the middle of the mouse?
In 1987 researches found the best place for a mouse’s sensor was at the front of the mouse between the thumb and forefinger, because it gave much more precise control. But today, most sensors are in the middle of the mouse — why?
How-to: Optimize your site for speed
Does your website load as quickly as you — and your users — would like? If not, here’s a detailed set of proven guidelines aimed at improving the speed of your site.
Convert Microsoft Word to plain text
This script converts text from Microsoft Word into plain text. Paste in your Word text, hit clean, and get lovely clean text out.