Yes, it’s been a long time since the last random links post but it’s time for a big one. I’ve been building up the links for 2 months now, so there are more to come. All the usual stuff is covered: flash games, PHP, HTML and other tech. Enjoy.
- Why PHP Scales – A snarky answer to why PHP scales as well as JSP.
- Race Conditions In Security UI – A security exploit aimed specifically at advanced users. Cunning.
- Sorting Algorithms – Visual comparisions of Java sorting algorithms. If you like this, you’re too geeky for your own good (but it’s a valuable resource nonetheless).
- Robots Are Our Friends – Sometimes they cut human flesh. The first flash animation for today.
- Serving Up XHTML Correctly – A fairly advanced script for sending XHTML properly in PHP. Includes Vary shenanigans.
- HTML Overlays – A way of minimising markup using javascript to import common elements. It all still validates too.
- Top Subversion Tricks – A few handy tips for those using the subversion version control system.
- Zelda Classic – An excellent Zelda fan site, offering the original game and lots of entirely new quests.
- Swinger – Flash puzzle game where the player must swing a rod onto polls in order to change their colour.
- PHP, XML and charater encoding – The joys of a unicode dream in an ASCII world.
- Fitts’ Law In CSS – Applying Fitts’ law to link targeting. If only the initial hit area was as big as the on focus hit area.
- Color Whore – Pretty colours.
- Scalable Image Replacement – Flash image replacement is now scalable. Very nice.
- Butt Plugs – Very funny prank phone call. I nearly cried at one point.
- Tweaking Firefox with CSS – A good guide to doing minor UI tweaks in ‘fox.
- 11 SSH Tricks – Get the most out of your secure shelling.
- XML Command Line Tools – Working with angle brackets a lot? This toolkit lets you query, validate and play with your files from the command line.
- Liberated Games – Legally available games. Includes some classics (Alien Versus Predator is still the scariest game of all time, in the right atmosphere).
- HTTP Fingerprinting – Identify server characteristics with simple tools.
- Drunk Staggering – Flash game: stagger your way along as far as you can.
More soon.