http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz random bits on coding and writing for the Web, and life on the bleeding edge Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:38:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First, Dave Winer coded NY Times River (and BBC River) to give Blackberry and Treo users a better way to get headlines. (I wish I could check them out from my mobile, but it's a WAP phone, and the sites don't display. What can I say--I'm a poor ... http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz/2006/08/30/see-what-happens-when-dave-winer-gets-a-new-toy-and-anyone-want-to-play-fooseball/ I just recovered this server from a really hideous .htaccess failure. Since I'm hosting multiple domains on this one virtual server, I had constructed a whole bunch of .htaccess Rewrites to redirect requests to the proper subdirectories. During maintenance yesterday, the .htaccess file got corrupted, and my multidomain housr ... http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz/2006/03/23/and-that-folks-is-why-you-shouldnt-use-htaccess/ If you ever doubted that personalities shape the path of technology, all you have to do is look at the checkered history of RSS. Even its acronym is the source of rancor: is it Rich Site Summary? RDF Site Summary? Really Simple Syndication? Any answer is bound to piss ... http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz/2006/03/17/when-blogarati-attack/ Here's another fun server-side XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) hack for you. Previously, I talked about the idea of using RSS for loosely coupled content management. Well, I've been wanting to do some Web 2.0 mashup kind of stuff, but given that my XPath skills are a lot sharper ... http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz/2006/03/17/my-friend-flickr-pulling-flickr-photos-into-your-site-with-xslt/ For the past month or so, I've been busy working deep under the hood here at eWEEK to pull together the worlds of lightweight content management (or, in other words, weblogs) and "enterprise" content management (as in the software guts that drive eWEEK.com) to create a new set of hybrid ... http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz/2006/03/17/building-blortals-with-blogs-rss-feeds-xsl-transforms-and-dreamweaver/ Last night, I went to an open house at MICA run by the graphic and digital design group of their Continuing Studies program. I went mostly because Sean Carton was speaking, and he had invited me to come by. Carton has started writing a weekly column for my day job. ... http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz/2005/08/19/turn-off-delight-the-party%e2%80%99s-over/ A month ago, as I was coming off a conversation about podcasting with a friend, I decided to do a little satire of the technology and created a new RSS-based media distribution technology: padcasting. I had an almost unused .Mac site that was begging to be used for something, and ... http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz/2005/04/07/papercasting-dead-trees-gone-digital/ (Apologies for the headline to anyone who hasn’t watched Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part I. It’s good to be the king.) Microsoft MVPs are revolting. They’re petitioning for redress of sins against VB6. There aren’t tires burning in the streets of Redmond yet, but it’s ... http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz/2005/03/10/revolting-they-stink-on-ice/ Slashdot is dark tonight — apparently, there’s some server upgrading going on that they, like, forgot to mention. http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz/2004/07/17/from-the-%e2%80%9cwho-kicked-out-the-plug%e2%80%9d-department%e2%80%a6/ The Sun’s Tricia Bishop interviewed me for this article on RSS (unfortunately, it requires free registration to read it). It’s pretty good for a general news assessment of where syndication is going (of course, I was quoted for about a quarter of its contents, so I may be a ... http://buzzword-compliant.com/buzz/2004/07/16/baltimore-sun-rss-article/