Archive for January, 2002

davidgagne on adding a right-click

Monday, January 14th, 2002

davidgagne on adding a right-click BlogThis for a team blog.

Bad Blogger tech

Saturday, January 12th, 2002

My favorite Discuss post of 2002 (thus far): an astute reader of status.blogger was shocked to see that the tech who posted after Blogger had been handing out Error 210 for four and a half hours “wrote SH*T”.

How about that: PPK agrees

Saturday, January 12th, 2002

How about that: PPK agrees with me about XHTML, a mere year and half before me, in Rated XHTML at ALA.

PHP Coding Standard

Saturday, January 12th, 2002

PHP Coding Standard

No More Popup Ads

Thursday, January 10th, 2002

No More Popup Ads

spam gourmet – disposable email

Thursday, January 10th, 2002

spam gourmet – disposable email addresses, spam filtering

Stephen Ambrose, Copycat : “Ambrose

Tuesday, January 8th, 2002

Stephen Ambrose, Copycat : “Ambrose is at his best” when writing about the harsh lifestyle on a B-24, Mackie commented. “But,” he went on, “all such passages are surrounded by often banal prose.” That’s gotta hurt when you stole those passages wholesale.

How To Write Unmaintainable Code

Friday, January 4th, 2002

How To Write Unmaintainable Code (also useful for writing PHP that is confusing enough that nobody can spot your mistakes).

Bloggar

Thursday, January 3rd, 2002

Now that the Blogger API is back up, Bloggar, the API client I was trying out before, is back as well, with version 1.10 (upgrade or new install) available in English, Português Brasil, or Español (and it’s now safe to edit your template with html character entities in it, and for the slow-witted like me, […]

From our Far Too Proud

Tuesday, January 1st, 2002

From our Far Too Proud of Minor Coding Victories Department: the “Recently seen” select menu in the upper right (what do you mean it’s not a select menu? enable JavaScript and reload) is actually a Blogger-powered blog. The highly-detailed template consists of <Blogger><$BlogItemBody$><br></Blogger>. The resulting file is read by a (currently grossly inefficient) PHP function […]