MovableBlog: Asides: October 2004

October 29, 2004

"All [iPod Photo] does is turn your iPod into a camera phone that can't take pictures or make phone calls" [#]

Presentations in Drupal Coming soon. See a demo. [#]

October 28, 2004

Adriaan of ecto fame releases 1001, a Flickr app for OS X My favourite part is that the screenshot is of my Bryght colleagues drinking from the tower of power. [#]

October 26, 2004

Aggregate RSS feeds and collate (sort by date) with Magpie [#]

Bryght releases SXIP module Their offices are on the same city block as us. [#]

October 22, 2004

PDF version of Cal Henderson's Flickr and PHP presentation slides [#]

October 21, 2004

Inside the Flickr server Mmm, computer innards. [#]

"Email me" contact forms [#]

October 20, 2004

Cal Henderson's slides for his presentation about Flickr to the Vancouver PHP Association Links to a zip of the Powerpoint file. [#]

October 19, 2004

Bryght releases FOAF module for Drupal [#]

October 18, 2004

Drupal 4.5 released Drupal.org redesigned, with full click-targets. [#]

October 15, 2004

Drupal pants module Some Friday quitting-time humour. [#]

Where to the candidates stand on the issues of SMTP server, web server, and HTML validity? Important research. [#]

October 8, 2004

Six Apart hires Jay Allen That takes care of my third guess as to who they'd hire. (Brad Choate was my second guess.) [#]

October 7, 2004

Frontier never had a preview version of the software because of the personality of its creator But now that it's open source, that's no longer true, says Karl Dubost. [#]

The first thing a blogger must do with new software is publish a vicious excoriation of the old software +1. Also +1 to Rogers' final sentence. [#]

October 6, 2004

Sacha notes that Dick Cheney gave the wrong URL in the vice-presidential debate Other people noticed this too. [#]

October 4, 2004

Fragment identifiers are not passed by a Web browser to a server as part of a URL request I found that out the hard way too, when I redirected old, month-based URLs to individual files. Basically I had to keep the old month archives (with new URL scheme) and keep the identifiers inside them. Can fragment identifier redirection be done in Javascript? [#]

October 3, 2004

"Blogs" has its own category on Jeopardy Is this for real? If so, maybe it's time to move on to something else? [#]

October 1, 2004

Aggregator in 40 lines of Python [#]