http://blog.marcustucker.com/ THOUGHTS, TIPS, AND LINKS COVERING WEB DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED TOPICS en Copyright 2004-2005 me@marcustucker.com me@marcustucker.com Ublog Reload 1.0.5 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=73 ]]> Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:16:35 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=73 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=72 Sent to "notifier-feedback@google.com" earlier today:

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First, some mathematics-related articles from the excellent Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:15:53 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=71 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=70 www.sonyericsson.com to make it possible to be automatically informed when a new firmware is released for my Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:28:07 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=70 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=69 Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:35:06 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=69 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=68
Kill
Firstly, since I use it in almost every function which uses objects, I ...]]> Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:55:02 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=68 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=67

x86-64: The Golden Handcuffs

A well-rounded coverage of the history of the latest ...]]> Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:40:21 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=67 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=66
The World Wide Web was conceived in ...]]> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 01:56:55 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=66 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=63 I shared my GetFolderAsRecordset() function, but I forgot to post a related snippet of code - here's a ...]]> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:19:03 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=63 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=62 Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:52:35 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=62 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=61 Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:50:04 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=61 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=60 Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:46:15 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=60 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=59 Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:47:28 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=59 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=58 Fri, 05 Nov 2004 18:28:37 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=58 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=56 Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:32:35 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=56 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=57 Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content
The way we surf is changing, and so home pages are becoming ...]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:17:21 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=57 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=55 Joel Spolsky's "Best Software Essays of 2004" nomination list... my personal pick of the ...]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:36:26 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=55 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=54
Froogle UK
The UK version of Google's popular US-only ...]]> Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:31:18 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=54 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=53
Microsoft Research DRM talk
Enjoyable and accessible talk about DRM and why ...]]> Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:47:01 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=53 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=52 Seven Pillars of Pretty Code
How to write readable code]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2004 05:24:51 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=52 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=51 Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:25:05 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=51 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=50 Retrogaming is great fun, but most of us play on PC-based emulators... but that's not good enough for Ben Heckendorn, who ...]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:19:44 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=50 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=49 The Dangers of Redesigning a Web Application
It's always tempting to tweak apps and release the code straightaway, but Drew makes an excellent ...]]> Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:17:11 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=49 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=48
Just post a *constructive* comment on one of my other posts (NOT this one) using ...]]> Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:14:35 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=48 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=47 Web development mistakes, redux
This list of web dev no-nos is definitely worth a read... no we've all been there, we've all done ...]]> Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:40:04 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=47 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=46 SitePoint got back to me to tell me that they aren't interested in publishing ...]]> Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:19:24 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=46 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=45 Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:29:28 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=45 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=44 Error Handling in VBScript, Part One
Eric continues to demystify the inner workings of the VBScript engine with another excellent post

]]> Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:27:57 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=44 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=43 What is ADO?
An excerpt from a book, and a seemingly simple question, but it's covered in great detail, and I'd be very ...]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:16:37 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=43 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=42 Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:48:15 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=42 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=41 Separate Your Singular From Your Plurals
On database table naming conventions

Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive
Translations of real Al-Qaeda emails, ...]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:00:49 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=41 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=40 slipstreamed SP2 - see for a handy related utility), and I've experienced ...]]> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:07:26 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=40 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=39 Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:53:19 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=39 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=38 The Daily WTF, which presents a daily spotlight on the worst code and/or ...]]> Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:22:01 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=38 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=37 Ad-Aware ...]]> Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:37:38 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=37 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=36
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(Credits ...]]> Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:21:27 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=36 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=35 Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:42:12 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=35 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=34
I would RTFM if there was an FM to ...]]> Fri, 06 Aug 2004 23:53:51 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=34 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=33 UBlog Reload - to v1.04, so you may or may not notice little enhancements ...]]> Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:19:01 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=33 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=32 Sony Ericsson P900, which is a fairly nifty bit of kit, and thanks to ...]]> Thu, 05 Aug 2004 23:55:28 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=32 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=31 Sitepoint Forums Mentor last week, and my resignation became effective on ...]]> Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:48:33 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=31 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=30 Digital Web Magazine : SEO and Your Web Site
Good tips for those of you who lust after Google's PageRank... but then again ...]]> Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:10:58 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=30 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=29
Don't Link to this Site

]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:44:35 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=29 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=28 Stopdesign's article The Cost of Page Rank led me to a post called Maury's Blooper... the comments had me ...]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:36:52 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=28 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=27 VBScript RGB() function.... Ever used it? No, me neither, and I don't think that's going to change...!
Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:57:23 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=27 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=26 How Microsoft Lost the API War (from Joel on Software)]]> Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:28:13 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=26 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=25

• CONfidence ...]]> Mon, 14 Jun 2004 06:46:57 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=25 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=24 here's why it wasn't ...]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:01:36 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=24 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=23
  • Code samples from WROX Conferences 2000 1 & Mon, 07 Jun 2004 08:55:25 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=23 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=22 Mon, 07 Jun 2004 04:42:58 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=22 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=21 Sun, 06 Jun 2004 09:32:36 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=21 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=20 Bloglines for the last few weeks, and have become fed up with it. Perhaps I'm spoilt by my previous (desktop) ...]]> Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:11:34 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=20 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=19 Tue, 01 Jun 2004 05:41:39 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=19 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=18 Mon, 24 May 2004 07:35:06 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=18 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=17 Google Blog that Google has published a proposal for some guidelines designed to empower the user ...]]> Thu, 20 May 2004 20:51:10 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=17 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=16 RSSReader, which is a Windows application, and pretty good ...]]> Mon, 17 May 2004 17:50:18 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=16 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=15 a thread at SPF, I made a startling discovery...
    
    Many years ago, giving ...]]> Thu, 13 May 2004 10:24:42 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=15 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=14 a recent thread at Sitepoint Forums, I thought I'd quickly revisit the topic of caching XML, ...]]> Mon, 10 May 2004 11:15:14 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=14 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=13 Jeffrey Zeldman has an ISSN for his blog, which seemed like a good idea, so I've ...]]> Mon, 10 May 2004 10:32:13 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=13 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=12 This is by no means an original blog topic (I'm come across many similar ones in the past) but it won't hurt to bring it ...]]> Mon, 10 May 2004 10:00:51 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=12 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=11 Mon, 10 May 2004 04:33:33 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=11 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=10 http://validator.w3.org/check/referer
    
    :)]]> Sat, 08 May 2004 23:26:12 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=10 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=9 Sat, 08 May 2004 12:49:44 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=9 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=7 Sat, 08 May 2004 11:22:52 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=7 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=6 Tue, 04 May 2004 09:09:25 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=6 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=5 empty blog problem, so I've modified the code ...]]> Tue, 04 May 2004 08:39:30 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=5 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=4 UBlog Reload this blog has - for the last few days - appeared (to the casual ...]]> Tue, 04 May 2004 07:37:27 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=4 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=3
  • I see them every once in a while in other people's code and hate them with a vengeance... so it's rather nice to see Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:47:42 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=3 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=2 Eric Lippert has been busy posting some priceless blog entries, some technical, others not. Recent highlights are:
    
    • Customer Service Is Not ...]]> Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:20:40 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=2 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=1 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 05:30:04 +0100 http://blog.marcustucker.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=1