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Sunday, April 01 2001

Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall : Programming Parrot "covers the basic features and syntax of this powerful new hybrid language, and provides refer...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is appellation | source : web1913 | Appellation \Ap`pel*la"tion\, n. [L. appellatio, fr. appellare: ...

Monday, April 02 2001

Jason the Marten'taur : The Velveeta Rabbit I dare you to read this to your child, tonight.
Damian Conway : "...Larry is targeting Perl 6 as a meta-language, as well as a programming language in its own right. It seems likely that a large number of oth...
Ars Technica : What is Mac OS X 10.0?
Benoit Marchal : Managing e-zines with JavaMail and XSLT "demonstrates how to automate e-mail publishing chores with Java and XML. This concrete applic...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is galvanic | source : web1913 | Galvanic \Gal*van"ic\, a. [From Galvani, a professor of phy...

Tuesday, April 03 2001

Chris Turkel : The Gimp running on Xtools 1.b10 on Mac OS X Final.
Larry Wall : "What I will be revealing in these columns will be the design of Perl 6. Or more accurately, the beginnings of that design, since the design process will certainly con...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fillip | source : web1913 | Fillip \Fil"lip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filliped}; p. pr. & vb. ...

Wednesday, April 04 2001

NY Times : Auditing Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and Free "Selling content for profit, or trying in some ways to commercialize one of the core intellect...
Marcel Bresink : Integrating Mac OS X in an NIS environment
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is apologia | source : wn | apologia n : a formal written defense of something you believe...

Thursday, April 05 2001

Richard Martineau : "C'est ça qui menace la culture, bien plus que l'hégémonie de l'empire américain: cet esprit comptable, qui tente d'étouffer tout ce qui ne lui ressemble pas, tout ce qui est d...
Dennis E. Hamilton : Software Engineering for Everyone "Nowadays I incorporate documentation as an inseparable part of the design of programs. Assuri...
Jonathan Eisenzopf : XML::RSS.pm 0.97 "[adds] support for the Taxonomy module (taxo). It only works inside the channel or item eleme...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is flaneur | source : web1913 | Flaneur \Fla`neur"\, n. [F., fr. fl[^a]ner to stroll.] One ...

Friday, April 06 2001

Brian Aker : mod_index_rss "provides RSS output for directories. Sites that publish mainly static content to directories ...
Christian Stocker : XML_sql2xml "takes an sql-query, a pear::db_result or an array and gives you back a xml string or object r...
I'm not much for pop-up windows but, you know, I have more important things in my life to worry about. That said, where do desig...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hullabaloo | source : web1913 | Hullabaloo \Hul`la*ba*loo"\, n. [Perh. a corruption of hurl...

Saturday, April 07 2001

William Gibson : "Understanding otaku -hood, I think, is one of the keys to understanding the culture of the web. There is something profou...
Brian Aker : mod_mp3 "turns Apache into your basic RIAA hating, but every college student loving mp3 streaming serv...
Zeldman : "My feeling about OS X is that it's the Flash version and OS9 is the HTML version." Yeah, would that it were possible...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is myriad | source : web1913 | Myriad \Myr"i*ad\, a. Consisting of a very great, but indef...

Sunday, April 08 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nepotism | source : web1913 | Nepotism \Nep"o*tism\ (?; 277), n. [L. nepus, nepotus, nephew: ...

Monday, April 09 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is potboiler | source : web1913 | Potboiler \Pot"boil`er\, n. A term applied derisively to an...

Tuesday, April 10 2001

Frans de Waal : "The question whether animals have culture is a bit like whether chickens can fly. Compared to an albatross or falcon, perhaps not, but c...
brian d. foy : Profiling in Perl
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Aterciopelados (real evil g2)
The XSLT Standard Library "provides the XSLT developer with a set of XSLT templates for commonly used functions. These a...
maki: serving XML via Apache and Python "maki is an attempt to glue together a simple, flexible framework that allows you to use these...
Jamie Jaworski : Error handling in JavaScript 1.5
National Post : CBC accused of pro-Leaf hockey bias "[I]f it isn't good enough for Ottawa, they can take a big bite of my a--. You can tell 'em th...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is distrait | source : web1913 | Distrait \Dis`trait"\, a. [F. See {Distract}.] Absent-minde...

Wednesday, April 11 2001

Lincoln Stein : "Who ever heard of holding a conversation with someone so forgetful that you have to continually remind them who they're talking to by h...
NY Times : "The [ Microsoft ] Clippy campaign, which will cost about $500,000, also includes a Web-site-based computer game in which irate us...
Adobe : Acrobat Reader for [the] PalmOS (beta)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is raiment | source : web1913 | Raiment \Rai"ment\, n. [Abbrev. fr. arraiment. See {Array}.] ...

Thursday, April 12 2001

Damian Conway : "The NEXT pseudoclass solves this problem, because a call to $self->NEXT::AUTOLOAD(@args) means "continue with the original look-up searc...
The Recipe Markup Language and the needs of the world of food.
W3C RDF-Calendaring mailing list The nay-sayers will doubtless be unimpressed, but I've already heard someone talking about the n...
Libby Miller : Generate RDF from your Palm Datebook file "The idea of this demo is that you can upload your palm datebook files to an RDF database to b...
freebsdzine : Virtual Servers Behind Cable/DSL
Mark Steyn : "Let's compare Mr. Day with another boob widely jeered at by the Canadian Liberal establishment: George W. Bush, the U.S. President moc...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is politic | source : web1913 | Politic \Pol`i*tic\, n. A politician. [Archaic] --Bacon. ...

Friday, April 13 2001

Gregor N. Purdy : A Commentary on the XML-RPC Specification and Definition of XPC Version 0.1 "These comments are stylistic in nature, and it is well recognized by the author that style in...
Simon Fell : MS Word 2 SOAP
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is internecine | source : web1913 | Internecine \In`ter*ne"cine\, a. [L. internecinus deadly, m...

Saturday, April 14 2001

Paolo Marcucci : MS Word 2 OPML (VBA)
Mike Richter : Primer on CD-R "The following is intended to be parts of a primer on recordable Compact Disc formats. I have ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bevy | source : web1913 | Bevy \Bev"y\, n.; pl. {Bevies}. [Perhaps orig. a drinking c...

Sunday, April 15 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is furtive | source : web1913 | Furtive \Fur"tive\, a. [L. furtivus, fr. furtum theft, fr. fur ...

Monday, April 16 2001

Steve Dietz : "This is open-source living in the digital age. It's making a political statement about ownership and commercialism. It's not just about viewi...
The truth is, I hate New York City. Still, I find myself strangely attracted to Laura Holder's New York City.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pulchritude | source : web1913 | Pulchritude \Pul"chri*tude\, n. [L. pulchritudo, fr. pulcher ...

Tuesday, April 17 2001

Pico Iyer : Imagining Canada This is the lecture from which the essay about a world of honorary Canadians that I pointed to...
The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide : Printserving
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is mendicant | source : web1913 | Mendicant \Men"di*cant\, a. [L. mendicans, -antis, p. pr. of mendicare ...

Wednesday, April 18 2001

I wonder how difficult it would be to write an interactive weblog client using Jabber. I wonder how you would do categories. Maybe you could create individual categories...
Jason McIntosh : The Comics Markup Language Resource Page "In a nutshell, ComicsML attempts to give online comics a way to describe their own content, a...
Bryan Pfaffenberger : Why Open Content Matters
Shawn Ribordy : "After test driving MSXML in a Visual Basic application, it begged the question: "I wonder if Perl can use MSXML?"
Jeffery M. Griffith : newsic.py "is a program that creates a streaming gateway to the alt.binaries newsgroups. ... The biggest...
I had occassion to walk through the tunnel at Westmount Square again, today. There was no scary music this time; just a guy with a pony-tail singing folk songs...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is plaudit | source : web1913 | Plaudit \Plau"dit\, n. [From L. plaudite do ye praise (which was said by pl...

Thursday, April 19 2001

D.J. Adams : Net::Jabber::XMLRPC.pm "The general idea is that you have an XMLRPC server which has various method handlers to servi...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is abstruse | source : web1913 | Abstruse \Ab*struse"\, a. [L. abstrusus, p. p. of abstrudere to ...

Friday, April 20 2001

Notwithstanding everything else that's happening in Quebec city, if the Parti Quebecois had half a clue they would take that 40-foot tv screen of theirs, facing ...
Apparently, the B.C. CRAP and Marijuana parties are going to break bread in an effort to liberate British Columbia from a socialist regime. ... "Marijuana is a symbol ...
Leigh Dodds : Validating XML using XSLT
Chris Nott : The 1k DHTML API via glish

Saturday, April 21 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is teetotaler | source : web1913 | Teetotaler \Tee*to"tal*er\, n. One pledged to entire abstin...

Sunday, April 22 2001

Would you buy food from this guy?
James Gleick : Inescapably Connected "We find that people look at their watches four dozen times a day. And at no time do you reali...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is undulant | source : web1913 | Undulant \Un"du*lant\, a. Undulating. [R.]

Monday, April 23 2001

The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rapprochement | source : web1913 | Rapprochement \Rap`proche`ment"\, n. [F., fr. rapprocher to ...

Tuesday, April 24 2001

Hats off to Sally Ann for finding a little bit of the mystery in the lowly PDA!
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is chortle | source : web1913 | Chortle \Chor"tle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Chortled}; p. pr. ...

Wednesday, April 25 2001

Lingua Franca : Marxist Literary Critics Are Following Me! "How Philip K. Dick betrayed his academic admirers to the FBI."
Dave Pawson : XSLT Questions and Answers Even contains a Things XSLT Can't Do section which probably ought to be manditory for any, and e...
Philip Greenspun talks about "Content Management" in his Internet Applications Workbook.
Andrew Van Etten : "So... help me understand where [WebDAV] fits in the CMS world..."
Thomas A. Phelps : "The Multivalent Document Model extensively opens to enhancement all aspects of a digital document system. Document content is...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is hobbledehoy | source : web1913 | Hobbledehoy \Hob"ble*de*hoy`\, Hobbletehoy \Hob"ble*te*hoy`\, n. ...

Thursday, April 26 2001

Harlan Hile and Drew Perttula : Toilet Paper "When a motion sensor detects a visitor in the hallway outside, toilet picks from a list of so...
Dennis McCarthy : Introduction to VoiceXML (mp3)
351 -> ./bin/perl/dictwotd No defintions found for 'bricolage' Frankly, I'm a bit suprised by this. A quick and dirty inv...

Friday, April 27 2001

developerWorks : Zope for the Perl/CGI programmers Zope has so much going for it that any compare-and-contrast that spends time fretting about the path...
Brian Ingerson : Data::Denter.pm "The main problem with Data::Dumper (one of my all-time favorite modules) is that you have to ...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is clamber | source : web1913 | Clamber \Clam"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clambered}; p. pr. & ...

Saturday, April 28 2001

brian d. foy : Creating Perl Code Graphs
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is nettlesome | source : wn | nettlesome adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an...

Sunday, April 29 2001

This Morning : Babes in Boyland "CBC Radio's technology reporter, Julie Ireton, has been exploring the world of women in techn...
Saturday Night : "I'm standing on a dock in San Mateo, California, with a Canadian scientist who has found an intriguing mathematical connection between: 1) how the skin cells of a frog d...
The Perl-XML kids on RSS and DTDs : "So, ignore the slashdot idiots is the only conclusion I can say for this. Oh, and implement a catalog system. I know I'm goin...
Stas Bekman : [T]aking mod_perl to the commercial world
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is patrician | source : web1913 | Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, n. [L. patricius: cf. F. patricien.] ...

Monday, April 30 2001

This American Life : The Growing Aesthetic of Cringe. "There are movies and TV shows and photographs and books whose whole point is to make us cringe. ...
Norman Walsh : The Design of the DocBook XSL Stylesheets "Building stylesheets for a large, rich XML vocabulary is a challenging exercise. This paper expl...
Greg Fitzpatrick : SKI, the Swedish Calendar Initiative "Since Why is to be free text; Who is itemized free text; and When, Where, and Who are already we...
Mark-Jason Dominus : TRS80.pm "At present, there is no port of Perl to the TRS-80 Model I computer. Until there is, this module...
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is heterogeneous | source : web1913 | Heterogeneous \Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous\, a. [Gr. ?; ? + ? race, kind; akin t...

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