Off to Brussels in a couple of hours to go to the FOSDEM conference. I’ll be running the Perl Developers’ Room. Hope it’s warmer there than it is here.
Category: tech
Greasemonkey and Ajax
Lloyd just pointed me at Greasemonkey which looks very interesting. Throw it together with something built using Ajax and suddenly the potential is enormous. Update: Here’s another nice piece about Greasemonkey.
Daily Mail in “Understanding Technology” Shock
The Daily Mail web site has introduced RSS feeds.
Geek Etiquette
It’s sad that we need this, but I really think we do. Kirrily Robert plays Emily Post for the digital generation.
It’s Over
The September that Never Ended is finally ending.
Gmail Coming Out of Beta
It seems that just about every Gmail user that I know (including myself) has logged on this morning to find they have 50 invitations to give away. This has been interpreted as an indication that Gmail is about to come out of beta testing.
Where are all the Webmasters?
I mentioned in passing a couple of days ago that the Times web site didn’t have a valid webmaster email address, but actually it seems that this problem is far more widespread. A number of companies, it seems, would rather you didn’t have a simple way to contact their webmaster. Another one that came to… Continue reading Where are all the Webmasters?
Site Navigation Toolbar
This is a circuitous tale, but stick with it – it gets interesting towards the end. I noticed that I hadn’t seen any new entries from DJ’s blog on Bloglines for a while so I investigated and found that the feed I was subscribed to was dead. Another bit of poking around and I found… Continue reading Site Navigation Toolbar
Taming Archive Lists
One slight irritation with Movable Type is that when you’ve been running a blog for some time, the list of monthly archives that (by default) appears on the index page can get a bit long and take up too much space. So I’ve written a bit of Javascript that addresses that problem. I’ll package it… Continue reading Taming Archive Lists
Movable Type Upgrade (again)
(Apologies for all the MT-related posts. We’ll get back to our usual bollocks soon I promise.) There’s a problem with the Movable Type email code which allows unscrupulous people to potentially send emails to anyone they like and leave the blame firmly at your doorstep. Everyone running a Movable Type installation should upgrade to version… Continue reading Movable Type Upgrade (again)