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September 2006 Archives

Thursday, 28 September 2006

Javascript Updates

I’ve updated the url_template.js and json_form.js libraries to fix some bugs, to make the demo I gave at XTech run more smoothly. It should work well on Safari, Mozilla and IE6 (despite some glitches at a showing inside Y!...

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Saturday, 16 September 2006

Surfing the Barcoded Web

Apple’s shipping an iSight camera in just about everything these days, and one of the coolest apps to use it is Delicious Library. If you follow that to its logical conclusion, everything should be barcode-enabled, by Web-enabling it. For...

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Wednesday, 13 September 2006

Some Questions for Software Vendors

Everyone seems to be gushing about Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise. While any headway is good in the horrible landscape that is Intellectual Property, my initial reaction is that it — like most such vendor promises — is too little,...

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Sunday, 3 September 2006

This Site Powered By...

A while back, I mentioned that I was considering changing my hosting setup. In the end, I decided to outsource, for a few reasons; Administration — There’s always an overhead to running your own box. Security — Keeping systems...

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