Linked List: October 12, 2006

Thursday, 12 October 2006

Interesting super-simple XML parser for PHP 5. (Via Simon Willison.)

Just in case you’ve been jonesing for more on these clowns. (Via El Macalopo.)

Zune UI Still a ‘Work in Progress’? ★

Matt Hickey at CrunchGear:

Cesar Menendez […] was nice enough to invite us to a little Pre-Zuning at the Souped Up Cafe, where he was holding a little meet-up for all the Zune fanboys in the Seattle area. In addition, he was nice enough to let us snap a few pics of the hardware (pics of the interface were a no-no, it’s still a work-in-progress) he’d brought with him.

It ships in a month and the UI is a work-in-progress?

Safari and Firefox Market Shares Continues to Grow ★

Firefox, obviously, is gaining at the expense of Internet Explorer. Safari’s growth, I suspect, is a sign of growing Mac market share. (Via Maciej Stachowiak.)

BBEdit 8.5.1 ★

Bug fix and small feature update. I really dig the new datetime and datetime_gmt glossary, err, clippings placeholders — you can format dates using ICU format strings. For example, this placeholder:

#datetime EEE dd MMM YYYY#

gives you a date formatted like: “Thu 12 Oct 2006”.

Interactive Timelime of Events Leading to Plane Crash ★

Excellent illustrated, animated journalism from The New York Times.

Illegitimate ★

Come on, folks, m/Fake/ is not a good way to test for phony sign-ups.

Subversion 1.4 Adds Support for Mac OS X Keychain ★

I missed this when it was news a month ago.

Philip Greenspun on Cory Lidle’s Cirrus SR20 Crash ★

Philip Greenspun, who owns and flies the same model plane as Lidle’s, speculates on what may have gone wrong.