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From the archives

Here you will find a selection of tasty morsels in reverse chronological order. Feel free to peruse them at your leisure, although no guarantees as to quality or satisfaction are made. (Some of it stinks.)

How To Make Your Website Fast 16 March 2012
Ideas of March 15 March 2012
How A Missing Favicon Broke My App for Chrome Users 14 February 2012
The Best Forms Implementation I've Ever Built 19 August 2011
The Lure of On-page Editing 29 March 2011
Ideas of March 15 March 2011
A Consistent User Experience 12 March 2011
Stop Building Sites In Subfolders 09 March 2011
OpenID Has Failed. So What's Next? 08 March 2011
Launch Week 30 November 2010
The Curse of max_file_uploads 01 June 2010
It's Not the Pay, It's the Wall 26 March 2010
Moving from Basecamp to ActiveCollab 24 January 2010
How To Create 100 Unique MOO MiniCards 22 October 2009
What's In Your Utility Belt? 15 October 2009
Own Every Aspect of The Design 09 October 2009
The Fallacy of Page Zooming 18 June 2009
Five Interesting Ways To Publish with Perch 11 June 2009
Launching Perch 01 June 2009
10 Cost Effective Web Development Techniques 18 May 2009
Easing The Path From Design to Development 18 May 2009
Supersleight jQuery Plugin for Transparent PNGs in IE6 12 March 2009
The Cost of Accessibility 25 February 2009
HTML and Web Standards Training 12 January 2009
The Myth of Stability 29 December 2008
Roadtesting a Sumo Omni Beanbag Chair 30 November 2008
The Trouble with BarCamp 14 October 2008
What Brian Cant Never Taught You About Metadata 14 October 2008
Coping With Internet Explorer's Mishandling of Buttons 30 July 2008
The Clangers' Guide to Microformats 06 July 2008
When Bugs Collide: Fixing Text Dimming in Firefox 2 19 June 2008
Content Management Without the Killing 03 June 2008
Content Management Nightmares 13 May 2008
Web Standards and Accessibility with Adobe Spry 10 May 2008
London Web Week 05 April 2008
Don't Import, Subscribe 28 March 2008
Project Management Doesn't Have To Be Hard 26 March 2008
Armadillo v3 24 March 2008
Version Targeting and JavaScript Libraries 24 January 2008
How To Set an Apple Touch Icon for Any Site 17 January 2008
Moving hkit Forward 16 January 2008
hKit now on Google Code 07 January 2008
Preparing for 24ways 23 November 2007
PHP mail() and The Path of No Return 02 November 2007
Time to Take Stock 13 August 2007
PHP Build Systems 03 August 2007
IWMW, Amazon Web Services and hKit 17 July 2007
hAtom and Last.fm Shoutboxes 26 June 2007
The State of Textpattern 14 May 2007
Why Your Forum Software Needs OpenID 21 March 2007
Impressions of The New AirPort Extreme 26 February 2007
Machine Tags: Tagging Revisited 24 January 2007
UK Geek Events 23 January 2007
Changes Afoot at WaSP 22 December 2006
24ways Returns For 2006 01 December 2006
Textpattern and the Technorati Link Count Widget 23 November 2006
Can Microformats be Validated? 26 October 2006
Can Your Website be Your API? 22 October 2006
From BarCamp to d.Construct 04 September 2006
Microformats Tools and Upcoming Events 22 August 2006
JSON All The Way 10 August 2006
Joining Yahoo! 05 August 2006
hKit version 0.5 22 July 2006
The Biggest Unsolved Problems of Web Design 05 July 2006
hKit version 0.4 23 June 2006
hKit version 0.3 22 June 2006
hKit Microformats Toolkit for PHP 21 June 2006
Maps, Microformats and LPG 13 June 2006
Sleight Update: Alpha PNG Backgrounds in IE 31 May 2006
hCalendar in Endo 23 May 2006
The Dangers of Automatically Generating hCards 11 May 2006
Jumping Off Points 03 May 2006
Adding hCard to Vitamin 26 April 2006
The Term 'Subscribe' Can Mislead 21 April 2006
Five Most Important Considerations 21 April 2006
Microformats in Dreamweaver 23 March 2006
Google Page Creator 23 February 2006
The Future of Web Apps Summit 10 February 2006
Site Maps for Web Applications 30 January 2006
Four Things 24 January 2006
So That Was 24ways 05 January 2006
24 Ways in 24 Days 01 December 2005
d.Construct Podcasts 15 November 2005
Web Development on a Microsoft Platform 01 November 2005
More After The Jump 19 October 2005
Writeboard Document Locking 04 October 2005
Web-based Collaboration Round-up 03 October 2005
iWork Installation Nightmares 17 September 2005
Bigger Than My Telly 15 September 2005
European Parliament: Nil Point 13 September 2005
eBay To Buy Skype 12 September 2005
Upgraded to Textpattern 4.0.1 11 September 2005
Local Textile 09 September 2005
Taking it Personally 03 September 2005
Textpattern 4.0 15 August 2005
Call For Hackers 03 August 2005
Paging Large Datasets in SQL Server 11 July 2005
The Office 07 July 2005
New Camera 22 June 2005
Theft by Blogging 12 June 2005
On Windows Server 2003 Web Edition 10 June 2005
LUGRadio Live 2005 02 June 2005
Tigers and Penguins 18 May 2005
End of The Road for Fireworks? 18 April 2005
Acid2 Let Loose 13 April 2005
Everyone Has a Clock 10 April 2005
Emerging from the Shower 05 April 2005
Podcast Aggregators Should Support Cookies 08 March 2005
User Defined Functions Considered Harmful 03 March 2005
Getting Very Dynamic at XML.com 10 February 2005
Designing URIs 07 February 2005
Podcasting 18 January 2005
Seeking New Opportunities 05 January 2005
Predictions for 2005 30 December 2004
XMLHttpRequest for The Masses 12 December 2004
Mental Clarity 07 December 2004
Developing Web apps for IE Only 25 November 2004
A Question of Title 20 November 2004
Supermarket Usability 18 November 2004
CSS Anthology 15 November 2004
Web Applications are Easy 11 November 2004
Embedding Macromedia Flash in XHTML 26 October 2004
To Apple Care or Not To Apple Care 22 October 2004
When Vendor Tie-In Bites Back 16 October 2004
The Joel Test for Web Development - Conclusions 04 October 2004
The Joel Test for Web Development - Part 3 26 September 2004
The Joel Test for Web Development - Part 2 22 September 2004
The Joel Test for Web Development 21 September 2004
Web Development is Software Development 17 September 2004
The Importance of Good Client Liaison 08 September 2004
The Dangers of Redesigning a Web Application 01 September 2004
Curl for HTTP Debugging 25 August 2004
Armadillo v2 21 August 2004
Browse Happy 20 August 2004
A Font for Programming 18 August 2004
Geekend 17 August 2004
Rested 08 August 2004
Accessing a Windows 2003 Share from OS X 29 July 2004
Firefox and The IEAK 28 July 2004
Referrer Log Spam 21 July 2004
Locate on OS X 13 July 2004
Authentication Required 08 July 2004
Scalability vs Performance 05 July 2004
And Breathe Out 30 June 2004
Interview with ... Me 24 June 2004
Colour me Spammy 16 June 2004
By the way of an example 15 June 2004
Take the Weather With You 14 June 2004
Who Cares Anyway? 08 June 2004
The Slippery Slope 01 June 2004
Collaborative Document Editing 28 May 2004
Experience is More Important than Knowledge Of Syntax 21 May 2004
Writing The Code is the Easy Bit 18 May 2004
Page Manipulation with W3C DOM 14 May 2004
CSS Editors 06 May 2004
Running a Development Server 04 May 2004
Subversion 27 April 2004
Comments on Comments 26 April 2004
Kittens and Letters 22 April 2004
Geocaching 20 April 2004
Page 23 15 April 2004
Central Email Signatures 15 April 2004
Icons for Web Applications 10 April 2004
Textpattern Plugins 06 April 2004
Someone who once wrote a book 03 April 2004
My Car 30 March 2004
Defensive Design for the Web 25 March 2004
Preventing Comment Spam 22 March 2004
Centralised Authentication 22 March 2004
Take-out Interfaces 17 March 2004
Processing Words 15 March 2004
Blog Anniversaire 11 March 2004
Web Standards Solutions 09 March 2004
Natural Order 04 March 2004
Blog Data Exchange 02 March 2004
ASP Web Development 02 March 2004
The Gas Man Cometh 26 February 2004
Textpattern Public Gamma Release 24 February 2004
iSight and Housekeeping 22 February 2004
Search Engine Near Misses 20 February 2004
Selling Software Online 17 February 2004
Form Elements in Firefox 12 February 2004
About 11 February 2004
Elegance 10 February 2004
Installing OS X Developer Tools from DVD 07 February 2004
Site Upgrades 05 February 2004
Bluetooth KVM 01 February 2004
iDesk 01 February 2004
Inner Demon 29 January 2004
Using BBEdit with SMB Shares 25 January 2004
MySQL and GarageBand (unrelated) 24 January 2004
As a Parrot 23 January 2004
First Impressions 19 January 2004
The Waiting Game 15 January 2004
PowerBook 13 January 2004
On Spam 10 January 2004
Social Networking Technology 08 January 2004
Mailio 03 January 2004
Favourite PHP Tricks 02 January 2004
PHP Duplicate Names 01 January 2004
Alternative and Punk 31 December 2003
Sir TBL 31 December 2003
iPod 28 December 2003
Tis the Season 24 December 2003
Data Protection 22 December 2003
Recovering a Windows Profile 19 December 2003
CSS Underscore Hack 17 December 2003
Windows is a bitch ... and then it dies 17 December 2003
Delivery Failure 14 December 2003
From T68i to T610 11 December 2003
Old Dog New Tricks 08 December 2003
Rock the Taskbar 06 December 2003
PHP Sessions Update 05 December 2003
Sessions, hah! What are they good for? 03 December 2003
70% Spam 30 November 2003
PHP on OS X 26 November 2003
Panther 23 November 2003
Drawing networks 20 November 2003
Class structure 18 November 2003
Creating and Designing Your Own Personal Disaster 17 November 2003
Application Interface Design 17 November 2003
We have a winner 14 November 2003
My Goodness, My Guinness, MySQL 13 November 2003
Search me 12 November 2003
Dir vs ls 10 November 2003
Paper-centric authoring environments 10 November 2003
New job 05 November 2003
ReUSEIT judging underway 03 November 2003
The Damned Key 31 October 2003
XML, DTD, Radio Silence 30 October 2003
What shape is your phone book? 28 October 2003
PHP class properties 26 October 2003
Tabbed browsing in Safari 25 October 2003
ALA Returns 22 October 2003
Making Progress 20 October 2003
More on XML 16 October 2003
It's just this damn XML 14 October 2003
VNC 12 October 2003
Caveat Emptor 09 October 2003
Important acronyms 08 October 2003
Eolas Patent Workarounds 08 October 2003
Changes to IE 07 October 2003
Mail 06 October 2003
Tart\'s Knickers 03 October 2003
Building a Wall 30 September 2003
Talking Web Standards 29 September 2003
I gots me a Favicon 25 September 2003
Firebird Favicons 24 September 2003
The IC-Style 22 September 2003
More on IIS Lockdown 19 September 2003
404 - Error Badly Assigned 18 September 2003
Dear Apple Computer 16 September 2003
XHTML 2.0 again 14 September 2003
The times they are onchanging 11 September 2003
CSS in Dreamweaver 10 September 2003
I'm an idiot 09 September 2003
Too good to be true 09 September 2003
ClearType anything but 08 September 2003
Welcome to Teletubbie Land 07 September 2003
Flash Satay resurgence 04 September 2003
Firebird bookmarks 03 September 2003
So near, and yet 02 September 2003
Milestones / Millstones 27 August 2003
Flash Satay Poll 20 August 2003
Treading the past 19 August 2003
Re-Useit Design Contest 15 August 2003
Attention Fireworks and Photoshop users 13 August 2003
This man must be stopped 10 August 2003
Alone 08 August 2003
The dot.com chair 05 August 2003
Employment 04 August 2003
Brief encounters 30 July 2003
Advertising 29 July 2003
Usability on the cheap 29 July 2003
Blogathon 26 July 2003
Duplicate, Offset, Rotate 26 July 2003
Oh look ... 24 July 2003
Mozilla 1.5 alpha 24 July 2003
Greatest Cars 21 July 2003
“Javacode” 19 July 2003
Optimizing ASP 17 July 2003
Scrubbin' and soapin' 16 July 2003
Textpattern Users 15 July 2003
Hot 15 July 2003
Flirtations with Windows XP 13 July 2003
Sleight of hand 08 July 2003
Echo, Charlie, Bravo 07 July 2003
Ti Waits for No Man 05 July 2003
Yes! 05 July 2003
Object, Echo, Tango 04 July 2003
Adobe, what have you done? 02 July 2003
Bandwidth: big issue? 30 June 2003
Popup blocking for IE 26 June 2003
Safari goes gold 23 June 2003
Email 'more important' than phone 21 June 2003
Blurred 18 June 2003
Bye bye IE, IE goodbye 14 June 2003
GIF patent 12 June 2003
Deja Fruit 12 June 2003
Odd(ie) evening 10 June 2003
Cheap accommodation 02 June 2003
No future stand-alone IE? 31 May 2003
Comments bug fix 28 May 2003
Why the Internet is a cloud 23 May 2003
The people's web 20 May 2003
Struggle 18 May 2003
Drab 15 May 2003
Textile bookmarklet 13 May 2003
Switching on the LAMP 09 May 2003
Greetings from Planet Cotton Wool 04 May 2003
An Inspector Calls 28 April 2003
On the subject of RSS 23 April 2003
No upgrade yet 21 April 2003
Web users don't read 17 April 2003
RSS problems 17 April 2003
DIY-related injuries 13 April 2003
Upgrades immanent 10 April 2003
The Matrix: Re-wotnot'd 09 April 2003
Blogdaq 09 April 2003
Mozilla 1.4a 03 April 2003
Hardware and headaches 02 April 2003
They call it progress 31 March 2003
Screen everywhere I look 27 March 2003
Microsoft quits W3C panel 26 March 2003
Calling all Dreamweaver extension developers 25 March 2003
I find this guy to be profoundly unnecessary 23 March 2003
I'm a big OS X fan 21 March 2003
I want one of these 21 March 2003
Alcohol inside 20 March 2003
CVS: Considerably Vexing System 18 March 2003
New rhino on the block 16 March 2003
Feeling the neighbors 15 March 2003
Who threw the final stone? 14 March 2003
Internet Fridge 13 March 2003
Can-do 13 March 2003
IT & IE 12 March 2003
Nightmare on App Street 12 March 2003
I have to start sometime 11 March 2003

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