Links from July 2005 (Phil Gyford: Links)

Links for 29 July 2005

Little Nybbles of Development Wisdom: Some handy tips about coding, systems and organising companies. (via Yoz)
Rootburn: Pressure Connections: Maybe we need something like A Month Of Unsubscribing - unsub from one RSS feed a day for a month. As a start. (via 2lmc)

Links for 28 July 2005

Anil Dash: Pay By The Hour: How to tell if you're not charging enough for your freelance work. I'm bad at this.

Links for 27 July 2005

Browsershots: Open-source, distributed processing, free version of Browsercam. Probably more interesting than useful. At the moment.
Tom Mangan's Fun With Google Maps: Especially the Space Shuttle tracking, and some Javascript for laying other images on top of Google Maps. (via Haddock)
Google Maps - Salton City, California: The road layout of an American town founded in the 1950s, which failed to develop. (via Google Sightseeing)
Blinksale | The easiest way to send invoices online: Nice Basecamp-esque web service with a meaningless name I'll forget. So I'd better link to it. (via Foe)

Links for 26 July 2005

BBC News | Technology | Uproar grows over GTA sex scenes: Sex scenes require a *higher* rating than blasting innocent people with a variety of weapons!? Weird Americans. (via Anne Galloway)
Josh Kaufman: Inside My Bald Head: The Personal MBA 40: I love stuff like this, The Books You Must Read for any particular field. Business, in this case. (via Kottke)
The economics of movie popcorn pricing (kottke.org): See my two comments… so I don't lose those links again (the rest of the page is by weird popcorn-eating people).
Pepys' Diary: In-depth articles: We just started a new section of the Pepys' Diary site. Hopefully there will be more lengthy articles to come…

Links for 25 July 2005

Super simple clearing floats - Anne�s Weblog about Markup & Style: A remarkably non-hacky way to get containing divs to expand to the full depth of their floated descendants (ie, goodbye “clear:both” elements?). (via Tim)

Links for 21 July 2005

Complete Wikipedia on your handheld or notebook in TomeRaider format: Oooh… another reason to upgrade my Palm. (via Chris)

Links for 19 July 2005

One month of speed reading [Tesugen]: Weblog post. To read later. Quickly.
Speed Reading, Reading Improvement and Assessment - AceReader Software by StepWare, Inc.: I read annoyingly slowly.
B3TA : Features : How to Poach an Egg: I tried the cling-film method last night - worked, although it's a little tricky to extract the egg intact.

Links for 18 July 2005

FooterStick � css � Learn � solarDreamStudios: Make a footer stick to bottom of the viewport where appropriate. (via blech)

Links for 8 July 2005

Monket Calendar - Wiki - monket.net: Lovely PHPy and Ajaxy calendar interface. Mmmm, the web's getting nice.

Links for 7 July 2005

Wage Slaves from 1UP.COM: I'm always amazed by this kind of stuff: people paid peanuts in Asia to earn money in computer games (via Yoz).
Six Apart ProNet Articles - yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows: May give it a whirl sometime. (via Yoz again)

Links for 6 July 2005

BBC Sport | London beats Paris to 2012 Games: Bugger. If only there was some way one could opt out of paying for this nonsense, or put my money toward something actually useful.
Van Gogh - Starry Night - Gigapixel Image - Photomosaic: Wow, that is impressive. Haven't seen a photomosaic that detailed before.
Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget - How We Built Flickr: Now coming to London… very tempted…

Links for 5 July 2005

Blacktree - Forums - View topic - Doesn't work under 10.4: Yay, new version of iTunes-BPM which works under Tiger (helps you set the BPM of tracks by clicking in time).
BBC - Radio 3 - Mixing It - 8 July 2005: Brian Eno will be interviewed on Mixing It this Friday.

Links for 4 July 2005

Maratz.com � archive � Essentials of CSS Hacking For Internet Explorer: Summary of IE CSS hacks. Nice to see them covered clearly in once place.
JavaScript Archive Network: New, could be handy when it fills up a bit.

Links for 1 July 2005

Trains :: NYC High Line, 02/2004 (kottke.org): I love the subtle navigation on Jason's new photo library pages.
Google Maps - 30.209688,47.394472: Burning oil fields in Iraq from a satellite photo. Zoom in. Amazing.
AoG.2y.net -> Children's drawings in the subway!: Korean schoolchildren's nasty anti-Japan drawings.
David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University: Basically, “learn to think for yourself.” (And the page is crying out for more leading.)

Links from July 2005