Companies blocking employees from reading RSS feeds — Interesting thoughts from Shel Holtz on why companies should not block RSS and other content. (Tagged: RSS internet social). PHP, Curl, and You! — Quick intro to using curl with PHP. (Tagged: development php programming tutorial webservices). Textile Reference — The best reference available. (Tagged: markup reference [...]
Links for 2006-04-14
by mitch on April 14, 2006 in delicious
cl1p.net – The Internet Clipboard — Interesting web-based clipboard. Share clips (including files less than 2MB) anywhere. (Tagged: clipboard internet tools webservices). From DHTML to DOM scripting — Replacing outdated DHTML/JavaScript techniques with current DOM scripting. (Tagged: howto javascript standards w3c webdesign). RSS Feeds from PR Newswire — List of RSS feeds available from PR [...]
Bite Size Standards
by mitch on April 14, 2006 in Geekery, Web Design
Bite Size Standards went online today, offering web development tutorials, tips, etc. In their own words: The basic idea being that busy web designers don’t always have time to read or write lengthy tutorials but that a daily “bite” of useful information, taken or given, could be good for the soul. Sounds promising. Hat tip [...]
Windows Defender Stops Internet Explorer from Downloading
by mitch on April 14, 2006 in Geekery
Although Firefox is my primary browser, there are still occasions when I find myself using Internet Explorer for one reason or another. Recently, while using IE, I attempted to download a file to my desktop. After selecting Save and choosing my desktop folder as the target, the download started. When the download window closed I [...]
MS Security Bulletin Breaks Internet Explorer
by mitch on April 13, 2006 in Geekery
Microsoft security update MS06-015 appears to break IE. The newsgroups are peppered with posts complaining that typing a URL without a prefix like http:// into the IE address bar, or dropping down the address bar to select a URL from your history causes IE to hang. Others report problems with Office applications, including an inability [...]
Links for 2006-04-13
by mitch on April 13, 2006 in delicious
SEO tools and tutorials — Tutorial, tips, and scripts for SEO. Includes PHP and JS code for social bookmarking sites. (Tagged: blogging delicious javascript php seo technorati tips tools). Tutorial on creating Firefox extensions — From the creator of the Googlebar Lite extension. (Tagged: extensions firefox howto programming xul).
Portland Goes MetroFi
by mitch on April 13, 2006 in Asides, Geekery, Portland, Talk
Om Malik reports Portland Goes Wi-Fi. MetroFi has been selected by the City of Portland, for building and operating a citywide Wi-Fi network. In the press here, and here.
Firefox 1.5.0.2 Released
by mitch on April 13, 2006 in Asides, Geekery
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 Released. Here’s what’s new: Universal Binary support for Mac OS X which provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors. Firefox supports the enhancements to performance introduced by the new MacIntel chipsets. Improvements to product stability. Several security fixes. Download here.
Links for 2006-04-12
by mitch on April 12, 2006 in delicious
Add Links for Del.icio.us, Digg, and More to Blog Posts — WordPress PHP code for adding social bookmarking links to post. (Tagged: blogging del.icio.us digg furl php reddit technorati wordpress).
Meadows Challenges Skiers and Snowboarders to Keep Coming!
by mitch on April 12, 2006 in Asides, Portland, Talk
Dave Riley, General Manager, Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort issues this challenge: Ski area operators all whine and cry (including me) about how Pacific Northwest skiers and snowboarders hang up their boards too early in the spring. I was talking with my Marketing Director, Dave Tragethon today about this phenomenon… We then came up with [...]
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