If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Yesterday morning I woke up to find that one of the posts on my Geek Etiquette blog had been Dugg.
Within half an hour, my site was offline.
I spent a good chunk of the day dealing with my first [...]
I’ve been looking for a simple, lightweight wiki application for my website since my recent redesign. Here’s what I wanted:
quick, no-nonsense install and configuration easily restrict editing access (me, and perhaps a small handful of friends) clean interface and pleasant markup that doesn’t make me want to scream (TWiki, I’m looking at you!) easily themeable to [...]
Nestoria announces the winners of their API hacking contest. I really love the secondhand clothes mashup: find Oxfam shops in pricey neighbourhoods, where there are likely to be lots of designer clothes donated.
Three random cool things I’ve discovered on US real estate sites:
Zillow have a property guide wiki on their site, which has [...]
An XY problem is one where you have a problem X which you want to solve with tool or technique Y, but Y isn’t necessarily the right thing for the job. You ask, “How do I solve X with Y?” and everyone looks at you blankly.
How do I hammer in this nail with [...]
I just submitted my paper proposals for the Open Source Developers’ Conference, an annual event held here in Australia which brings together developers from a range of different open source communities and languages, including PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Mono, and I don’t even know what else. Even though I usually spend most [...]
A couple of weeks ago my Dad and I were on our way to visit my Grandma, who’s moved into a retirement village down at Torquay. As we were driving through Geelong, I thought I’d see whether Dad had caught any of the buzz about this web2.0 thing all the kids seem to [...]
Via Stennie on #perlnet, the Microformats Wiki lists me as the originator of the term “Plain Old Semantic HTML”:
The earliest references to “plain old semantic HTML” that have been found so far are: 1998-05-01: Kirrily ‘Skud’ Robert on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design - “The site is implemented in HTML 4.0 Transitional with style sheets; [...]
I’ve been thinking for a while about what advice I’d give people wanting to relocate internationally for work. I’ve done it twice now for myself (from Australia to Canada and then back again), and each time it’s pretty much been a lesson in what not to do. So I thought I’d record [...]
Table of contents for Weaning yourself off LJ: a guide for fansWeaning yourself off LJ: Why you might want toWeaning yourself off LJ: First stepsWeaning yourself off LJ: CustomisationWeaning yourself off LJ: More customisationsWeaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and videoWeaning yourself off LiveJournal: RSS feeds So far we’ve been talking about [...]
Via London Perl Mongers (I seem to get lots of cool stuff from them), Nestoria are offering GPSs as prizes at Yahoo Hack Day for hackers who write stuff using Nestoria’s API. Viva la Web2.0!
Via O’Reilly Radar, Trulia have just released Trulia Hindsight which lets you watch the growth of US cities over [...]
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