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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Keep watching this story
The BBC has decided to embrace peer-to-peer downloading TV shows. This has tremendous potential for American television networks. NBC will definitely be keeping watch on this to see if their programs (or programmes if you will) are still successful and … Continue reading
Posted in society/culture/news, technology
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Competition protection passed off as security
I am so sick of how many corporations are allowed to hide behind crap like this. The FCC is willfully withholding useful data that would help American consumers and they’re hiding behind “terrorism” so they don’t have to reveal the … Continue reading
Applying “Jeopardy!” to identity validation
As I was walking to my fianc�e’s apartment I had a slight revelation as to how to solve a problem that our society is plagued with (that is, plagued with in not necessary a bad way). The problem is this: … Continue reading
Where’s the RSS feed?
Dear Apple Computer: why isn’t this page on Apple Pro tips available as an RSS or Atom feed? It’s this sort of site that would be perfect for an Atom feed: a page where new items are regularly posted to … Continue reading
Posted in apple/mac/ipod, blogtech
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Phinding Phing!
I’ve been on a wild goose chase to upgrade Phing. For those who don’t know, Phing is a Apache Ant-like program for PHP. It’s quite nice to use for the purposes of automation (though personally I hope the world can … Continue reading
Posted in php, subversion
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Avoiding DOM + JScript Memory Leaks
Douglas Crockford is such a great advocate of Javascript. Javascript is one of my favorite languages and has been ever since ~2000 when I started working at NCSA as a student developer. His article on IE’s Javascript memory leaks is … Continue reading
Posted in javascript, microsoft, web
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Happy Birthday Don Dahl!
Today is the big 30 of my good friend Don Dahl. Last night I dropped by his house to offer him an official (unless Frank really objects) “Frank James Kerous the 5th Lifetime Achievement Award in the Area of Entertainment,” … Continue reading
Posted in PSA, friends/family/loved ones
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Normative schema locations
One caveat to XML Schema work is making sure you reference the correct locations. In my previous post on xml:id I mentioned that I was creating an XSD file to use with Microsoft’s xsd.exe code generation tool. In that schema … Continue reading
Posted in schema, w3c, web, xml
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xml:id and “smart” tools
According to Mark Pilgrim, I’m a moron. I have been reading a lot of information put out by the W3C and others about XML and XSD. In particular I’m interested in this bit about xml:id from its recommendation: each element … Continue reading
Posted in schema, xml
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My (First) Spin-Off
Well folks, I’m spinning off my left-brain into a new blog. I’ve decided that I’ve been mixing too many different types of information into this site and want to separate out my work-type thoughts into a new blog and keep … Continue reading
Posted in apple/mac/ipod, blogtech, privacy/secrecy/security, programming, technology, web, work, xml
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