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chris @ October 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet

instant fundas | Things you didn’t know VLC media player can do
VLC is a great little piece of free software. It's also my main way of playing region 1 DVDs my friends may send me.
(tags: software howto video vlc)

Ajaxian » Microsoft to help move Canvas 2D API out of HTML5 spec?
So will the HTML5 spec […]

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links for 2009-10-20

chris @ October 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Stoyan's phpied.com | Browser’s implied globals
Browsers (IE/Safari, mostly, but not FF) create global Javascript variables from "name" and "id" attributes of various elements. For example, <meta name="description"…>, even when inserted dynamically in Javascript, results in a global variable "description". Huh.
(tags: javascript web coding)

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chris @ October 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Snowball
"A small string processing language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval"
(tags: nlp linguistics programming language)

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