Tiobe Software: Programming Community Index

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Tiobe Software: PHP Named Language of
2004

Tiobe Software: PHP Named Language of
2004 01/06/2005 09:24 AM
According to the TIOBE Programming Community Index, PHP has been awarded the title of Programming Language of the year for 2004.

Music Software Internet Popularity Index

Music Software Internet Popularity Index 03/17/2005 03:44 AM
The Digital Music Doctor today announced the results of the Music Software Internet Popularity Index for March 2005. DigiDesign Pro Tools holds a commanding lead in first place as does Steinberg Cubase in second. Cakewalk Sonar and Adobe Audition, still better known on the Internet by its former name, Cool Edit, vie with each other for the third and forth positions. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Pathetic.org Community Software 7.3

Pathetic.org Community Software 7.3 12/03/2003 01:54 AM
A PHP-based community system.

Community Software Process - CSP

Community Software Process - CSP 04/23/2004 08:27 PM
How we could take forward...

In defense of Free Software, community,
and cooperation

In defense of Free Software, community,
and cooperation 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
A recent article by Richard Stallman on the subject of the direction of the Free Software community provoked a lot of discussion, in particular on whether he is right to push so strongly his principles of Free Software over and above the pragmatic principles of Open Source. In this article I would like to defend Stallman's vision of software, and its place in community rather than as a consumer product, and re-advocate Stallman's assertion that the right to form a community is more important than the ability to use particular software.

Can the open source community beat
software patenters?

Can the open source community beat
software patenters? 08/10/2004 10:51 AM
Patents and the threat they pose to open source and overall software innovation are a hot topic, but patents may not be a useful weapons against a community that works with, ardently supports, and defends open source with money, time, and expertise.

The Free Software Community After 20
Years: With great but incomplete
success, what now?

The Free Software Community After 20
Years: With great but incomplete
success, what now? 01/05/2004 08:34 AM
It was twenty years ago today that I quit my job at MIT to begin developing a free software operating system, GNU. While we have never released a complete GNU system suitable for production use, a variant of the GNU system is now used by tens of millions of people who mostly are not aware it is such. Free software does not mean "gratis"; it means that users are free to run the program, study the source code, change it, and redistribute it either with or without changes, either gratis or for a fee.

Kansas City Website Designers and
Software Programming Firm Launches KC
Website Design Resource Website

Kansas City Website Designers and
Software Programming Firm Launches KC
Website Design Resource Website 12/24/2004 12:26 PM
VectorVision, one of Kansas City, Missouri's leading Web design firms and software developers is pleased to announce the creation of http://www.KC-web-design.com a Missouri web site showcase and Missouri web site designers resource center. [PRWEB Dec 24, 2004]

Newbury Street community network
possibly only commercial/community
freenet

Newbury Street community network
possibly only commercial/community
freenet 03/13/2003 10:15 AM

Newbury Street community network possibly only commercial/community freenet: Leander Kahney of Wired News writes about Michael Oh's efforts to offer to free wireless networks across an increasing area of Boston's Newbury Street to promote his business while doing good. Oh seems to have a single backhaul, which radically reduces his cost in offering this kind of service.

Broadlook--#1 CRM Software
Solution--Empowers your CRM Software and
fill your CRM Software with contact
management relationships.

Broadlook--#1 CRM Software
Solution--Empowers your CRM Software and
fill your CRM Software with contact
management relationships. 06/18/2004 03:03 AM
Whichever CRM software your company uses, you need to look at the Broadlook Suite of Software which should seamlessly integrate with whichever CRM software you are using. BroadLook is an integrated set of applications designed to harness the Internet as a powerful real-time data source--the data from which can be exported into your CRM software. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

Z-Index

Z-Index 09/15/2004 05:47 AM

Over on webst andards.org I found a link to a guide to z-index according to the CSS2.1 specification. Click here to see this guide.

I mention it because it accuses both the Gecko and KHTML engines of violating the CSS spec, but in reality the author simply does not understand how auto z-index works in CSS2.1.

Stacking contexts are established in three ways in modern browsers:

(1) The root element gets a context.
(2) Elements with opacity < 1.0 establish a stacking context (and a z-index of auto is changed to 0).
(3) A positioned element with a z-index other than auto establishes a stacking context.

In other words, being positioned (absolute/fixed/relative) does not mean you establish a stacking context! You must also have a non-auto z-index.

The normal flow contents of positioned elements with auto z-index are sorted in an enclosing stacking context as though they had z-index 0. Document order breaks ties. This is specified in section 9.9.1 of the CSS2.1 specification.

... a stacking level for positioned descendants with 'z-index: auto', and any descendant stacking contexts with 'z-index: 0'...

So in this example you have 4 blocks, two of them relatively positioned and two absolutely positioned.

The two relative positioned blocks each contain absolute positioned descendants. Because the two RP blocks have the same z-index (auto), they are sorted in document order. RP1 is therefore below RP2. AP1, the absolute positioned block inside RP1, has a z-index of 1. This guarantees it will be above both RP1 and RP2, since it is sorted in the root element's stacking context at a z-index of 1. RP1 and RP2 render just above the normal flow (z-index 0) level of the root stacking context, and therefore will always be below AP1 if it has a positive z-index defined.

Therefore the assertion that AP1 should render below RP2 is false, and Mozilla and Safari have the correct rendering.

In this example, Safari 1.2 on Panther does violate the spec regarding the positioning of AP2. AP2 should render above RP1 and RP2 in the example but below AP1. Internal Safaris actually render this correctly (we fixed this bug a long time ago actually), so future releases of Safari will be correct.

In the next example, both Mozilla and Safari have the correct rendering. The claim that only IE gets it right is false. IE gets it wrong. The RP blocks have a z-index of auto, and so they are below all of the absolute positioned blocks with positive z-indices in the root's stacking context.

The following quote should additionally make this clear. It's also from the CSS2.1 spec, section 9.9.1.

The root element forms the root stacking context. Other stacking contexts are generated by any positioned element (including relatively positioned elements) having a computed value of 'z-index' other than 'auto'.

In other words, when a block has auto z-index, it does not act as a stacking context for other positioned descendants.

So in the next example, Mozilla and Safari are once more correct. Because RP1 now establishes a stacking context, AP1 is sorted only within RP1's stacking context. RP1 is then sorted with AP2 in the root's stacking context. RP1 has a z-index of 11 and AP2 has a z-index of 20, so RP1 is below AP2. RP1 and AP2 are both above RP2 of course because RP2 has an auto z-index, and therefore is just above normal flow content in the root stacking context (at the 0 z-index level).

I hope this helps clarify how z-index works in modern browsers. As usual, track back if you have questions.

index

index 06/16/2004 06:16 PM
Tokyo Plastic is freakin WOW! .. Clearly the work of a nutter .. Incredibly cool flash thing .. Sweeter than candy .. Amazing Flash site .. Tokyoplastic.com .. .. .. TokyoPlastic .. voorbeeld .. index

tokyoplastic.com
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SVN-Log-Index-0.22

SVN-Log-Index-0.22 05/30/2004 12:22 AM

SVN-Log-Index-0.1

SVN-Log-Index-0.1 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

SVN-Log-Index-0.21

SVN-Log-Index-0.21 05/28/2004 12:33 AM

SVN-Log-Index-0.30

SVN-Log-Index-0.30 06/14/2004 10:08 AM

Giving away the index

Giving away the index 06/05/2005 11:35 PM

My final year project is due in two weeks, and I'm going to be running on silent for most of them. I have, however, upgraded to Tiger and playing with Spotlight has given me plenty to think about.

Giving away the index

The great benefit of having an electronic version of a book you own in dead-tree format to hand is that you can search it. Publishers generally don't hand out free digital copies because, well, they want you to buy the books, not freely distribute electronic copies.

The thing is, you don't need a digital copy of a book to be able to search it; you just need a full-text index of it (if you don't understand what this means, go and read Tim Bray's series O n Search). An index isn't enough to reconstruct the book, but it is enough to answer questions like "on what pages of Eric Meyer on CSS are float layouts discussed?"

Imagine if technical publishers made binary full-text index files of their titles available for download, for free in some kind of open standard format. Readers could query them using Spotlight or similar technologies, and gain the ability to search the titles they own all without needing to rely on centralised, artificially limited services such as Amazon's Search Inside the Book.

O'Reilly, I'm looking at you.

Full-text phishing

On a darker note, one thing about Spotlight that has given me pause is the immense ease with which it can uncover passwords saved amongst my email. Lost password reminders, new account details, invitations to sign up for services - they're all hidden away in my mail archive. Spotlight makes it trivial to dig them back up again, and offers the APIs for applications to do so as well. Combine this with a piece of spyware / some trojan horse and you've got the ultimate vector for phishing attacks.

This problem isn't limited to Macs either; Google and MSN's Desktop Search engines could be used for much the same purpose, and full-text search is bound to end up built in to Windows sooner or later. For the moment, the safest thing to do is either delete those pesky emails or move them to a folder that is excluded from Spotlight's index. Somehow I doubt many people will think to take such precautions.

And with that off my chest, it's time to get back to my dissertation.

Site Index 2.00

Site Index 2.00 02/12/2004 10:04 AM
A simple script that generates multi-page HTML site index for your domains.

operation usa index

operation usa index 12/28/2004 06:54 PM
Operation USA

opusa.org
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Index.html

Index.html 04/14/2005 04:23 AM
severe British woman with a penchant for knee-high leather boots .. Sonya Fitzpatrick Animal Communicator The Pet Psychic on Animal .. Anyone can have a web site .. Sonya

sonyafitzpatrick.com
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String-Index-0.02

String-Index-0.02 05/14/2004 06:13 PM

Telecomms Index

Telecomms Index 07/29/2004 07:01 PM
Sam's Telecomms Index.

String-Index-0.01

String-Index-0.01 04/12/2004 04:50 PM

Index Translationum

Index Translationum 10/29/2003 09:11 AM
Index Translationum
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.ph p@URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. The data base contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 and totalling more than one 1,300.000 entries in all disciplines : literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth. It is planned to update the work every quarter. In publishing this list, UNESCO provides the general public with an incomparable global tool by means of continous international cooperation.

"http://www.ali.gov.uk/htm/index.htm"

"http://www.ali.gov.uk/htm/index.htm" 12/16/2003 03:14 AM

Index Mundi

Index Mundi 07/13/2004 05:09 AM
Index Mundi
http://www.indexmundi.com/

Index Mundi, home of the Internet's most complete country profiles. This excellent site derives it's information from the latest version of the CIA World Factbook. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Index Funds: Still Your Best Bet

Index Funds: Still Your Best Bet 07/28/2004 01:27 PM
So we're running to actively managed funds now? Not so fast, my friend.

EDGAR Index

EDGAR Index 05/05/2004 06:56 AM
EDGAR Index
http://www.edgarindex.com/

SEC filing directory and RSS notification service ... EDGAR Index Free Directory offers free listings and notification of SEC Filings in several categories: IPOs, Quarterly and Annual Reports, and Insider Trading Filings. Users can subscribe to free RSS feeds for each category. SEC Filings contain a wealth of information about the financial and organizational well-being of an organization. Their free directory/blog is available by clicking here. This will be added to Competiti ve Intelligence Resources 2004 Internet Miniguide and Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Yahoo and the New Index

Yahoo and the New Index 02/17/2004 10:24 AM
Yahoo switches from Google to their own algo based results.

more company index

more company index 09/19/2004 06:08 AM
Scientific American Sep 19 2004 10:15AM GMT

WebTorrent.Com Index Script

WebTorrent.Com Index Script 04/08/2005 06:02 PM
WTcom 0.2.3 alpha Released

Yahoo! Buzz Index

Yahoo! Buzz Index 01/09/2004 09:54 PM
Yahoo! Buzz Index has RSS feeds....

MInd - The Meetings Index

MInd - The Meetings Index 11/04/2003 08:38 AM
MInd - The Meetings Index
http://www.interdok.com/mind/

MInd: The Meetings Index offers free access to locate future conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia. Resulting proceedings from many events are referenced in their Directory of Published Proceedings. If you are interested in searching for event literature, visit DoPP.

If multiple parameters are used, fewer records will be returned. The subject categories consist of four areas:

Science/T echnology
Medical/Li fe Sciences
Pollution Control/Ecology
Social Sciences/Humanities

Results are sorted by date and city. If you locate a listing, click the event link and the full record will appear. We provide all sponsoring organization as well as contact information, including deadlines for abstracts and papers, where noted. Should you have information on future events you would like to include in MInd, please visit their MInd E-Form to submit your listings. If you wish to review previously listed events, which convened more than two months ago, visit their MInd Archive.

mozdev.org - sage: index

mozdev.org - sage: index 04/17/2005 07:36 PM
Sage News Aggregator extension (plugin) for Firefox .. Sage RSS reader .. Sage .. RSS

sage.mozdev.org
track this site | 2 links

Wisconsin Name Index Gets New Names

Wisconsin Name Index Gets New Names 01/02/2004 09:29 AM
The Wisconsin Name Index, last mentioned in March 2003, has added over 12,000 leads to Wisconsin political figures, bringing the total name count in the index to over 125,000 people....

Plucene-SearchEngine-Index-RSS-0.02

Plucene-SearchEngine-Index-RSS-0.02 08/19/2004 10:13 AM

Plucene-SearchEngine-Index-RSS-0.01

Plucene-SearchEngine-Index-RSS-0.01 08/19/2004 10:13 AM

Google to index libraries

Google to index libraries 12/17/2004 06:37 PM

In yeste rday's link dump, I inexplicitly buried a link to the big news about Google's plan to index the books at The Libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library. Wow!

In the meantime, Microsoft released a toolbar suite. Uhmmm, wow?

Note to Microsoft: I like your OS, but you're falling waaay yy behind.

Vietnam's e-government index still low

Vietnam's e-government index still low 01/06/2005 06:51 AM
BVOM.com Jan 6 2005 9:17AM GMT
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