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December 23, 2003

Nielsen's Top Ten

Jakob NielsenBeing the time of year when all and sundry come out with their "Top Ten of 2003" lists, Jakob Nielsen is no exception - see Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003.

With most of my work (alas) at the minute involving detailed form based pages, you can be sure I'll be waving the text from point number 9 ("Overly Restrictive Form Entry") at every opportunity I get. Jakob's note about almost every credit card digit entry field not allowing groups of four with spaces - the same format as your card - has been a personal annoyance to me for many years now.

Which in "web years" is practically a lifetime, I believe.

More of the same RSS

Yahoo! Web Services news over Atom

aka: "When you realise Yahoo! already serve their news over RSS..."

Yahoo! Web Services news over RSS

I've put together a small project that will create an dynamic RSS 2.0 feed based on the Yahoo! News Search hooks.

Despamming Shortstat (Part 2)

Further to my earlier post about Despamming Shortstat, I've made a small update to the code that has a few improvements on the original.

Importing CSV files to SQLite

"SQLite is different from most other SQL database engines in that its primary design goal is to be simple". Which isn't strictly true...

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