Using Fairmount as a workaround.
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Archive > November 2009
NYT Story on the U.S. Food Stamps Program
Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff:
With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. […]
From the ailing resorts of the Florida Keys to Alaskan villages along the Bering Sea, the program is now [...]
jQTouch
Looks good:
A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.
But the demos show just how far short even best-of-breed iPhone web apps fall compared to native apps.
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Alan Storm Explains My URL Regex Pattern
Great follow-up from Alan Storm to my piece yesterday on the regex for matching URLs. Storm does what I was too lazy to do: dissect the regex and explain how it works. I’m a big fan of the “/x” format for regex patterns — it’s a big aid for readability and maintainability.
As for Storm’s list [...]
HandBrake 0.9.4
Tons of improvements, especially regarding H.264 encoding.
Update: If you want to use it with VLC for ripping from DVDs, note that you’ll need the 32-bit version of HandBrake, because the latest stable Mac OS X version of VLC is 32-bit.
Update 2: Some readers are reporting success with the previous stable release of VLC (1.0.2), which [...]
★ A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
A common programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a tweet. I offer a solution, in the form of the following regex pattern:
\b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/)))
This pattern should work in most modern regex implementations. I can vouch for it [...]
You Should Follow Daring Fireball on Twitter
A few months ago I started an official DF Twitter feed. Everything I post to Daring Fireball gets posted to Twitter automatically. Effectively, it’s a Twitter version of the DF RSS feed.
(Yes, some Twitter clients don’t correctly parse the ✪df.ws URLs. That’s because these Twitter clients have bugs. Also, yes, when you open one of [...]
Bob Sheppard Officially Steps Aside as the Public Address Voice of the New York Yankees
The man whom Reggie Jackson dubbed “The Voice of God” officially retires at age 99.
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