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Linked List: April 28, 2007

Saturday, 28 April 2007

PHP Becoming Mainstream ★

Tim O’Reilly, who knows a thing or two about selling programming language books:

We’ve noticed that one of the signs that a language is becoming mainstream (and perhaps being abandoned by the cutting edge developers) is that the For Dummies book becomes the top seller.

Keep your eye on Barry Burd’s Ruby on Rails for Dummies, then.

gSpell 1.1 ★

Freeware system-wide service by Nathan Spindel; provides spelling corrections via Google’s Web API. Update: Version 1.1, released yesterday, now works without a Google API key.

A Smarter Wikipedia Search Using Google ★

Along a similar line of thinking to my Google Lucky scripts for ThisService, Thomas Robinson shows how to add a custom “search Wikipedia through Google” engine to David Watanabe’s Inquisitor.