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July 29, 2008
I’m slowly gaining ground in the war against paper. I’m a packrat, which immediately calls into question the structural integrity of my house and garage. However, I’ve discovered that technology transcends the limitations of corporeal space. I can still hoard precious tidbits for posterity in digital form without risking premature burial under collapsing stacks of [...]
Tags: digital packrat, Live Mesh, Microsoft, paperless billing, personal archiving, wishlists
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July 28, 2008
In the fall of 2006 I was wrestling with VS debugging JavaScript in IE and Venkman in Firefox teasing out problems and holes in the cross-domain channel library we were building for Windows Live and the Windows Live Contacts Control.
One of the most aggrevating aspects of debugging cross-domain JavaScript is that JavaScript debuggers do not provide the same degree [...]
Tags: cross-domain, Dojo, JavaScript, window.name, XDR
Filed under: Web |
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July 25, 2008
Eric Meyer has put together a proposal for HTML 5 to enable an HTML document to associate URL links with just about every visual HTML element type. This would make it much easier to make a blockquote link to the source of the quote, and would enable things that are currently impossible in HTML [...]
Tags: HTML, syntax, Web
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July 23, 2008
Stoyan Stefanov writes about Non-Blocking JavaScript Downloads on the Yahoo User Interface Blog. Good content all around, but I’d like to add a note on an item he somewhat casually skimmed over.
In the “Dependencies” section of the article, Stefanov describes using the onLoad or onReadyStateChange events of the dynamically generated script tag to receive notification [...]
Tags: JavaScript, Programming, yahoo
Filed under: Programming, Web |
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July 21, 2008
Lukas Biewald lays bare his frustrations with Amazon’s S3 service, particularly after the recent S3 service outtage that left his FaceStat business offline for more than 7 hours recently. Actually, Lukas has double posted on this issue – he has a much more scathing criticism of S3 over on his own blog: “Amazon S3 Screws [...]
Tags: Amazon S3, Google, online hosting, service level agreements
Filed under: Web |
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July 17, 2008
Wordpress.org has announced a new 2.6 version of the WordPress online blogging and content management system.
Major features in this release include revision history, comparison, and rollback of edits made to articles, a “Press this” link to automate blogging about other web pages, theme previews to see how a theme would look on your content before [...]
Tags: Google Gears, Subversion, wordpress
Filed under: Web |
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July 15, 2008
I found a happy little email in my inbox this morning. It was a note from Handango informing me that my application to become a Handango Developer partner has been approved. Woohoo!
Ya, you know, that application I submitted more than THREE YEARS AGO when I was at Borland experimenting with writing .NET CF apps for my smartphone [...]
Tags: .NET, Borland, Delphi, Handango, Programming, smartphone
Filed under: Programming |
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July 14, 2008
Radiohead has released a video for its “House of Cards” song that has the peculiar distinction of being a live-action video filmed without cameras. According to the Google Blog post ”No Camera, No Lights, Just Data“, the imagery was created using 3D scanning lasers and detectors.
The video, hosted online by Google, is visually interesting, but the novelty is [...]
Tags: 3D digitalization, data visualization, Google, music video, Radiohead
Filed under: Misc |
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July 9, 2008
John and Bronwen of SoulSolutions have completed an RSS upgrade for the Australian government Prints And Printmaking web site, which gives free public access to something like 18,000 images of artwork in the National Gallery of Australia. With all those images indexed in RSS, you can now browse those works of art in PicLens halfway [...]
Tags: art, Australia, mediaRSS, PicLens
Filed under: Web |
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July 4, 2008
WordPress.com, the commercial blog hosting company that uses blog software from WordPress.org, is adding Google Gears support to their hosted blog service. Initially, this will only speed up use of the blog administration pages by caching the scripts and images locally.
This isn’t really the best use of Gears, since the browser will cache content as it’ is accessed, [...]
Tags: blogging, Google, Google Gears, offline web apps, wordpress
Filed under: Web |
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