November 2004

Tizag Tutorials

While updating my FirstBite website (ongoing) I wanted to check some PHP commands and came across Tizag Tutorials. These tutorials teach beginner web programmers how to use HTML and CSS, as well as PHP, MySQL, Perl and Javascript. I found the PHP tutorial very clear and straightforward. This is definitely an excellent resource.

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Readable pages

Part of making a website accessible is to use plain language. You can get the readability score of any website from Readability.info. Measures include: Kincaid, ARI, Coleman-Liau, Flesch, Fog, Lix. Check average sentence length and many other statistics. There are explanations of the scores and measures too. [Via Writing for the Web.]

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iCal 1.5.4

I hate the thought that even a calendar application can be a security risk, but I’m glad to know Apple are onto it. iCal 1.5.4 has security enhancements to prevent imported events with alarms from launching potentially malicious applications. [Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.]

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WordPress and Comment Spam

As I struggle / writhe in agony under a torrent of comment spam on my Tips Archive and this Blog I hunt around for ways to allow real people to leave comments if they wish, while keeping out the “holdem” excretions (more than 225 at current count). Somehow now I’ve blocked all human commenting at [...]

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Flores people

This is old news now, but I just wanted to mention my disappointment at the naming: LONDON (Oct 27) – Scientists in Australia have found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island … The partial skeleton of Homo floresiensis, found in a cave on the island [...]

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Data tables

Roger Johansson has the clearest article I’ve yet seen on how tables should be used when marking up tabular data.Bring on the tables: There’s a lot more to tables in HTML and XHTML than just rows and cells. Much more. Especially if you want to make them accessible. Read about th, caption, summary, scope and [...]

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