Paul James. Some excellent articles on REST like 3 Tiered REST Architecture and Living Without Sessions. Thijs (edit) ¶

Changeset 6485 – Dropped the use of ; as a separator. I think he’s right. Manfred (edit) ¶

Mingle from ThoughtWorks Studios. No opinion. There’s really nothing but a lot of marketing speak right now. Or maybe we’re just not Agile enough because we don’t know what making ‘real-time decisions using real-time data’ is about and we’re not really looking for something that ‘provides project intelligence and supports all team activity’ (project intelligence? all team activity?) Thijs (edit) ¶

Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech” (why I cancelled my ETech presentations). Disturbing. Thijs (edit) ¶

Deal With It. Using the number of elements you have to deal with as a measure for perceived user interface complexity is a really, really good idea. Thijs (edit) ¶

Letterhead Fonts embraces DRM. We always make sure we’ve paid for the fonts we use, but I’m never ever going to buy type that tries to enforce its license terms using technical measures. Thijs (edit) ¶

Escaping URLs with UnicodeChecker. More friendly than John Gruber’s BBedit-only JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder. Thijs (edit) ¶

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. So, why is the title an image? Thijs (edit) ¶

WhatTheFont. Handy. Thijs (edit) ¶

Hackfest Winner Interviews: Manfred Stienstra. 5th place. Yes, we’re proud. Thijs (edit) ¶

SQL Injection Cheat Sheet. Helps to make your site safer. And don’t forget the XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheat Sheet. Thijs (edit) ¶

CruiseControl.rb. A very good way to keep your unit tests green in a larger team. Manfred (edit) ¶

What do you want to know? Read the comments. Thijs (edit) ¶

HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST). I’m going to print a poster of this first thing tomorrow morning. Thijs (edit) ¶

Mike Cohn’s Blog – Succeeding With Agile. Mike Cohn, who was one of our favourite authors long before he became one of our favourite clients, finally started blogging. Thijs (edit) ¶

The Camping Episode II. Our own Manfred talks about his HTTP authentication library for Camping and his work on ActiveSupport::MultiByte. Thijs (edit) ¶

Web 2.0 Tutorials Round-Up. Over 65 tutorials, references and related resources for creating Web 2.0 graphics. Gradients, gradients, gradients. Thijs (edit) ¶

Don’t Judge a Book by it’s Cover. Great idea for adding credits and copyright information to images that only gets shown when the image is downloaded or passed around on the web. Thijs (edit) ¶

Amsterdam OpenCoffee Meetup. Thursday, March 15th, 9:00-10:00 AM at de koffie salon. Part of an attempt to establish “recognized, open and regular meeting places where entrepreneurs can meet with investors (and anyone else who fancies coming along) in a totally informal setting.” Thijs (edit) ¶

bcrypt-ruby: Secure Password Hashing. For the paranoid. Thijs (edit) ¶

The Top Five Technologies You Need to Know About in ’07. Rails is #1. Thijs (edit) ¶

The Complicator’s Gloves. Just say to yourself, ‘Gloves’. Thijs (edit) ¶