Buzzer Beater For basketball fans out there, the footage of Jordan Snipes hitting a 87 foot basket is a must see. A local news station then asked him give it another try with 16 basketballs, and he managed to get it again on the 11th shot (footage). Local news coverage. (via HotLinks)

XMPP Intro podcasts Joe Hildebrand of Jabber Inc, and Marshall Rose talk about XMPP in a series of podcasts. Here is the first XMPP talk and second XMPP talk podcasts. This is a good overview for people unfamiliar with XMPP, and who'd like to know more.

Gush 1.3 Gush 1.3. It's finally out. Yes, it's taken way too long, but that's what happens when you get distracted with side projects, moving servers, and finding wonderful, new TV shows like 24. The latest version of Gush has lots of changes under the hood, but most importantly it includes 's group chat functionality. The performance improvements mentioned earlier are now complete. Gush will probably still not run well on a Pentium II, but on more "modern" machines it should be fine.

Now I just have to knuckle down and get the Linux version up to date as well.

css-discuss wiki css-discuss wiki. Another very good weapon in the battle to understand and use CSS. (via Ned Batchelder: css-discuss wiki)

Apache2 w/ SSL/TLS SecurityFocus has a good introductory article about SSL/TLS and some of the first steps to configuring Apache 2 with SSL/TLS. Apache 2 with SSL/TLS: Step-by-Step, Part 1