Category: Science
GitHub – madrobby/keymaster
Easy, small and useful, what more could you want?
Tantek – How many ways can you slice a URL and name the pieces?
Or standards are so awesome everyone keeps making a new one.
QuirksBlog – Twelve steps for saving webOS
Pretty good plan to take a webOS into a top tier platform for developers, though not much to get in the hands of consumers which would beat every other factor and practically guarantee bringing developers.
NYTimes.com – Its Gene Patents Upheld, Myriad Genetics Moves to Protect Its Secrets
Regardless of whether or not you agree with the idea of patents on genes, the fact that these patents are forcing patients to undergo a more expensive and less effective procedure should give anyone concern.
Joey Trapp – Installing CakePHP Sphinx Documentation
Search the CakePHP docs locally, yes please.
CSS-Tricks – Functional CSS Tabs Revisited
The idea of "CSS Tabs" has been around for a long time. If you Google it, a lot of what you get is styled CSS tabs, but less stuff on the building an actually functional tabbed area. At least, functional in the sense as we think of tabbed areas today: click a tab, see a […]
Ars Technica – Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable
The court seems to be trying to not rule against all software patents while acknowledging they are broken and need to be reformed.
Neal Poole – Cross-Site Scripting via Error Reporting Notices in PHP
Though to be fair you probably shouldn’t be using display_errors in a production site.
Programmers Stack Exchange – Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?
The short answer is yes, the long answer is well go read the long answer.
Freedom to Tinker – Google+Motorola = Software Patent Indictment
That point is the reason patents are a blight on the software industry, you can’t just stop being a part of the system. Patents are a field of hidden landmines for any person/company that does software of any sort.