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Hierarchical Data
When you work with large single-line databases for a living, you rarely think of them in other ways beyond the standard SQL stuff (ok, maybe a crosstab or two, but that’s it). Which is why I’ll be curious to read about storing hierarchical data in a database and using it to show tree-type relationships. (via [...]
Summer Project
As part of my summer project to learn more about scripting languages (especially Python and AppleScript) and inspired by Jeremy’s post about weblog burnout rate, I’m thinking of taking Blogger’s list of blogs created from 1999 through Jan. 2001, stripping out the URLs and then checking the HTML headers in each to determine the date [...]
GeekPAC
Linux-boosters are ramping up a public policy effort which may even include a federal political action committee, the so-called GeekPAC. That may get some cutesy attention from the political press, but I agree with John of Genehack, who instead advocates that Linux fans do what they do best: build an app that congressional offices would [...]
PHP Tools
Found some cool PHP projects at Gavin Brown’s site, including a mailto script that masks your email address from spam scrapers. Also a blog publishing app with perhaps the best name: Project Steve Guttenberg.
DHTML
Saw Malevole in my referrer logs and checked it out; it’s a very cool use of DHTML, and even other browsers (Opera, Mac IE5) see a reasonably orderly alternate design.
