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March 2006

218 bookmarks saved in March 2006

SitePoint Blogs - Is AJAX Cross-Browser?

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/24/is-ajax-cross-browser
"Rather than using cross-browser DHTML like Writely, ajaxWrite uses Extensible User Interface Language (XUL), which means it will only work on Mozilla browsers like Firefox. Alex Russell believes that advertising such an application using the AJAX name is
#ajax #ajaxwrite #xul
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appscript

http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscript.html
"Appscript makes MacPython a serious alternative to Apple's own AppleScript language for automating your Mac."
#apple #osx #python
archive.org #6706

OPML Editor support:

http://support.opml.org/2005/07/18
"suppose you have the OPML Editor (or compatible, someday there will probably be compatibles) installed on more than one machine. When you set up the second copy, you want to have all your public files installed there too."
#opml #opmleditor #usertalk
archive.org #6692

Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon

http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/archives/2006_03_19_seanmcgrath_archive.html#114301889699453423
"The future of structured content in my opinion is content tunnelled inside human readable content. *Not* machine readable content that can be converted/published for human readability."
#microformats #semweb #xhtml #xml
archive.org #6689

BoxtheWeb

http://www.awriterz.org/etcetc/boxtheweb/code/apis#outlineclasses
Looks like some PHP classes that strive to be a universal parser / translator between outlining formats.
#opml #php #webdev
archive.org #6687

"High" REST [@lesscode.org]

http://lesscode.org/2006/03/19/high-rest
"GET/POST/PUT/DELETE advocates who claim they are pointing out the obvious are actually making a religious argument, and that poor thesis is playing the role of C-3P0 in the Ewok village. It's unproven technology, and it should be viewed with healthy skep
#rest #webdev #webservices
archive.org #6675

Bela Labovitch's blog

http://blogs.opml.org/belaLabovitch/2006/03/16#opmlPodcastAndSomeDelayedComments
"As tags are the 'disruptive' quick and dirty, not without issues, but simple solutions to complex taxonomies, why can attributes not be the lay mans version of elements?"
#opml #xml
archive.org #6673

What is OPML? (GnomeREPORT)

http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20060317_what_is_opml.phtml
"That's just an OPML document which displays all the categories and feeds we pre-populate with your keyword on Gada.be. Go ahead, change the word "keyword" to something else - watch what happens."
#opml #readinglists #rss #search
archive.org #6666

iB::Topic::XBMC feature-freeze and bug-bash!

http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=ST;f=1;t=19350
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. We are happy to announce that we have once again put the official XBMC CVS into a feature freeze and thus our third official public bug-bash has begun. This is the first step in the process of getting ready for anoth
#hacks #software #xbmc #xbox
archive.org #6665

Windows Gaim - Gaim

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32#debug
"Dlls with the same name as those that Gaim uses are found in the dll search path and are used instead of those installed by Gaim, likely causing Gaim to malfunction."
#dllhell #gaim #software
archive.org #6645

Rush - Backstage

http://www.showtechmerchandising.com/Rush_Backstage/show1product.cfm?CatID=113&Class=&Dispgroup=1&ProductCode=RU30002002&ProductID=669&SuCatID=&formkey=060227140942
"Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Rush, Contents Under Pressure is a new authorized history book of the band."
#books #rush #wishlist
archive.org #6573

Rush - Backstage

http://www.showtechmerchandising.com/Rush_Backstage/show1product.cfm?CatID=93&Class=&Dispgroup=1&ProductCode=RU00002010&ProductID=730&SuCatID=&formkey=060306070837
"This is a 400 page coffee table book with all of Rush's tour books to date, a total of 15 books."
#books #rush #wishlist
archive.org #6572

Plagger - Trac

http://plagger.org/trac
"Plagger is a pluggable RSS/Atom feed aggregator written in Perl. Everything is implemented as a small plugin and you can mash them up together using Plagger core API and plugin hooks."
#atom #hackingfeeds #perl #rss
archive.org #6568

Podcast Riches?

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2006/03/podcast_riches.html
"But I believe the general notion here is that there isn't a huge amount of money to be made just on podcasts and that the disruptive nature of podcasts lie in the fact that most people will be doing them for themselves and their friends and families."
#longtail #podcasting #yawp
archive.org #6548

The big DRM mistake

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/390
"Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?"
#copyfight #drm #fairuse
archive.org #6545