I’ve been doing a lot of work with Microformats, recently, but have hit a stumbling block: scoping. According to the reltag specification, scoping is possible: rel=”tag” is specifically designed for “tagging” content, typically web pages (or portions thereof, like blog posts)Source: reltag For example, here’s a chunk of code borrowed from ideaShrub: For this block, […]
Comment · Posted: August 5th, 2005
The other day I was working on a new application which needed to process large batches of words – as comprehensively as possible. After some quick searches I found that there are (unsurprisingly) a number of freely available dictionary/wordlist files available on the Internet. The first repository that I tried was that of one hosted […]
Comment · Posted: August 4th, 2005
Jon Stewart will be battling Tucker Carlson again on August 8th. More info can be found at the Washington Post. If you have a Tivo you can set the show to record by clicking this link.
Comment · Posted: July 31st, 2005
Today I took a little trip down the road to the grand opening of the Eastview Apple Store. Luckily, I was one of the first 1000 there so I got a snazzy nice T-Shirt, which is exciting. Below is an assortment of pictures borrowed from my Flickr set. More pictures can be found in my […]
Comment · Posted: July 23rd, 2005
Google just rolled out a new feature to Google Maps / the Google Maps API: Hybrid Maps! It’s a combination of the satellite photos and the map data which ends up A) looking very cool and B) being very useful. A sample image can be found below:
Comment · Posted: July 22nd, 2005
In your newsreader, subscribe to your favorite programming module RSS feed: Perl (CPAN) Javascript (JSAN) Ruby (RAA) PHP (Pear) Unfortunately, those are really the only languages with any sort of repository, which is a shame. Regardless, I’m finding that being subscribed to both the Perl and Javascript RSS feeds is really helping me to catch […]
Comment · Posted: July 21st, 2005
JSAN (The Javascript Archive Network) was recently announced at the North American Perl Conference as a repository for Javascript code, simliar to the archive that Perl has (CPAN). When I first checked it out, it was pretty barebones, but now it has many more features and a growing number of packages for people to play […]
Comment · Posted: July 20th, 2005
If you haven’t been keeping up on the recent security concerns with Greasemonkey – now’s a good time to jump in. I had no idea that the problems where ‘that bad’ until today. I assumed that it was only possible to do something malicious within a user script, not outside of it (due to bad […]
Comment · Posted: July 18th, 2005
