Link Dump 2004-11-30

Barcodes in Postscript: Make your own barcodes in Postscript. I’m not exactly sure how to use this, but it looks interesting 🙂

SELECT DISTINCT: A SQL Case Study: An article on analyzing a query rewrite for PostgreSQL and making sure it is doing what you thought it should (via Random Notes).

Which PHP libraries do you use?: Harry is looking to see what PHP libraries people actually trust enough to use in real life.

Getting started with HTML_QuickForm: An intro to using PEAR’s HTML_QuickForm. For quite sometime I’ve stayed away for PEAR, but lately I’ve been finding some very helpful bits of code there. Time to swallow my pride and look a little closer.

Why Install Linux on Your Mac?: For the desktop user I have a hard time buying into any of these reasons. Sure you can get more power and flexibility, but the cost of those two is additional time. At this point I’m more interested in being productive with my desktop/notebook than customizing it.

Five Favorite Annoyances: Five annoyances on the Mac, with solutions. Despite what I just said above there are things that I would change about Mac OS X (no OS is perfect after all).