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January 2006 Archives

Friday, 27 January 2006

And Now for Something Completely Different

For the past three and a half years, I’ve learned a lot, had a tremendous amount of fun, and made some really good friends working at BEA Systems in the Office of the CTO. I’ve also enjoyed working with...

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Wednesday, 25 January 2006

Little Orange “feed” Buttons

About two years ago, I got a little grouchy about those little orange XML buttons, and exhorted people to label them properly with RSS. Then came along a little thing called Atom, and “RSS” doesn’t necessarily cover it. Besides...

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Monday, 23 January 2006

How Web-Ready is XMLHttpRequest?

I’ve been playing around with some ideas that use XMLHttpRequest recently, but I keep on bumping up against implementation inconsistencies on IE vs. Safari vs. Opera vs. Mozilla. Although the interface exposed is pretty much the same, what it...

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Friday, 13 January 2006

Para publicadores de conteúdos e Webmasters

The RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters has been translated to Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to the efforts of Maurício Samy Silva. Note that while the title says “RSS”, it isn’t limited to that; or as Maurício wrote, Apresenta...

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Wednesday, 11 January 2006

Safari and Content Sniffing

It took two years, but Apple has finally taken steps to limit Safari’s content-sniffing ways; Safari now displays certain documents that have text/plain headers as plain text rather than treating them as HTML. — About the Mac OS X...

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Monday, 9 January 2006

Making headway on OPTIONS

On the heels of mod_cgi, PHP now does the right thing (at least in 5.1) when setting the Allow header. mod_dav is still broken, though. Backstory here....

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Sunday, 8 January 2006

Colour Management in OSX

After hearing about how I lusted after Bob’s D100 in Japan last November, Anitra kindly splurged on a Nikon D50 for my birthday, and I was re-introduced to serious photography. After getting some lenses and figuring out the basic...

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