30 Jan
SMTP Obscurities
Subject encoding, if you deal with i18n.
Archive for January, 2005
29 Jan
The Law of Standards
From John Sowa’s “The Law of Standards” “Whenever a major organization develops a new system as an official standard for X, the primary result is the widespread adoption of some simpler system as a de facto standard for X.” For more…
01 Jan
“A Byte of Python”
Another Python book, more beginner than Dive Into Python, but also available online in a variety of formats.
01 Jan
Faster Firefox
Tip to boost Firefox — HTTP pipelining + reduced delay before initial paint = snappier browsing on broadband connections.
01 Jan
Double-clicking
Sample code showing how to trivially prevent double-clicking in a browser. Everyone should know how to do this.
