Cool, my book gets a nice review over at IBM DeveloperWorks.
It’s been about a year now since I originally started researching and writing it; I’d taken a few months off work to devote time to it. It sure was a fun, but intense, time. I can appreciate much more now just how [...]
Catching up with things today, I read what Mark’s been doing on the accessibility front. A great job it is too. I thought I might contribute a tiny bit of the jigsaw for the Blosxom users, specifically regarding the meaningful page titles and additional navigation aids.
I’ve updated my weblog in these two areas; each specific [...]
Just returned from a very relaxing holiday; we stayed at the Saunton Sands Hotel in Devon. Great place, wonderful views, and good service. We spent most of the time flying kites on the huge beach - fantastic. Looks like lots of things have been going on, yahoo!
I’ve just put together a little script, blosmail, that lets you add (and modify) your Blosxom-powered weblog entries via email. The idea is that you can send emails to yourself with a specifically recognisable Subject: line, and via some procmail recipe magic, and a check on whether the sending email address is listed as [...]
Inspired by Mark, and Dave, I’ve been doing a bit of neighbourhood exploration hacking of my own.
Last week, I was alerted to Blogdex by Ben (through the funny little Metalinker Javascript-induced ‘[b]‘ links on his RSS weblog pages). It’s an interesting project that trawls weblogs and compiles link information (I don’t know how wide [...]
Well, further to the little formatting blaggplug I wrote yesterday to reformat the blaggregated items for my Morning Reading, I decided to go a step further and add a tiny template mechanism to Blagg so that this sort of formatting change could be done in-the-style-of Blosxom, that is, by allowing Blagg to format the [...]
Following Dan Brickley’s point about the RSS <link/> mime-type, and Ben’s and Mark’s notes, I’ve made the required changes to the attribute contents for the pointer to this weblog’s RSS feed.
Furthermore, regarding the other <link/> tag I have in this document, pointing to the RSS feed list (for which I’d specified a rel value [...]
Marc Barrot’s weblog, ’slam’, has some great collapse/expand features for the display of his items. I’ve adopted his idea, using his javascript, to make the display of my “Morning Reading” neater and more manageable. Thanks Marc! I created a very simple plugin for Blagg to format the titles of the items slightly differently (now [...]
Mark is doing some very interesting social network scripting with a script that recursively follows and compiles bloggers’ blogrolls. It occurred to me, in the context of the RSS autodiscovery flurry earlier this week, to give such scripts a leg-up. Why not use a(nother) HTML <link/> tag to point to a blogroll?
So, alongside the [...]
Great. Looks like I’ll be going to the NTK/Mute Festival of Inappropriate Technology. I get the feeling that it’s going to be a combination of a computer fair (with second-hand and ‘antique’ kit), conference, and general geekfest. Right up my street.