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Microformatpalooza

Jun032005

Tantek Ã‡elik has a whole gaggle of microformat links over on his site: hCard Creator hCalendar Creator hReview Creator hFolk 0.4 Basically, microformats are just organically grown rules to add application-specific semantics to existing XHTML documents. This is mostly accomplished by adding class attributes to your existing markup, and occassionally by adding additional markup (span & div) to indicate a hierarchical data structure. This description leaves a lot to be desired, but an example is … Continue reading →

WordPress Sponsors BrowseHappy

Jun012005

WordPress is now the official host and sponsor of the BrowseHappy campaign, as noted in a WebStandards Project press release. In an effort to refocus energy on advocating for standards from a perspective of universal access and vendor neutrality, WaSP is handing over the reigns of the BrowseHappy campaign to the good folks at WordPress. What does this mean to the average user? Not a whole heck of a lot. But it probably means a … Continue reading →

WordPress Security Update

May272005

We were recently notified of a SQL injection bug in the WordPress code. Matt patched the code and updated the archive on the downloads page last night. All users are encouraged to upgrade to WordPress 1.5.1.2. The patch is very simple (it just requires one new line of code in the get_category_by_ID() function), so if you don’t want to upgrade your whole installation, you can follow the instructions in the announcement. As a side note, … Continue reading →

OpenDocumentation

May272005

From Tim Bray, we learn that Open Document 1.0 has been approved as an OASIS Standard. The new format will be the standard for the OpenOffice.org office suite. This paves the way for an unprecedented level of compatibility between applications and tools dealing with a wide variety of document types. In the interest of fairness, I’ll point out that Microsoft did document the new XML formats for Microsoft Office 11, which opens up the same … Continue reading →

SpamValve Download

May262005

I only had a couple of responses to my call for SpamValve testers. One of the testers has already begun using SpamValve on his FreeBSD server. The other is tied up at the moment, but is going to attempt to adapt it to work on a Linux server sometime next week. In the meantime, I’ve started using it to filter spam hits to my mail service. This was accomplished with a one-liner: tail -0f /var/log/maillog … Continue reading →

Calendar Software Recommendation?

May242005

A friend of mine is looking for a web-based events calendar. He’s got a pretty big list of needs and wants, but here are some of the main ones: Ability to integrate into existing web site (look & feel, events lists on various pages, maybe unified logins, too). Single events, recurring events and floating events (same weekend each year type) plus multiple categories Separate yearly, monthly, biweekly, weekly, and daily calendar views for each calendar … Continue reading →

Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith

May232005

Big family day yesterday. Susan, I, our two kids, Susan’s parents, our friend Kenn and two of his daughters, all went to see Revenge of the Sith (Kenn’s wife, Amanda, and their youngest daughter visited relatives). Due to the size of our group, and the size of the rest of the audience, we wound up sitting about three or four rows from the front of the theater. Not the optimal viewing position, but it worked … Continue reading →

Musical Baton

May192005

Thanks to the magic of Technorati and a little bit of ego surfing, I discovered that Mike Papageorge of Fiftyfoureleven passed me a musical baton a couple of days ago, but I missed it until now. I’m not sure how, because I keep up with that site… So, two days late, here are my answers: Total volume of music files on my computer: 5.6GB. Yes, that’s miniscule, but a lot of my CDs are still … Continue reading →

WordPress 1.5.1.1 Released

May192005

There’s a new minor bugfix release of WordPress, which brings us up to version 1.5.1.1. Update: In our effort to optimize we made two mistakes in 1.5.1, one related to feeds and one related to trackbacks and pingbacks. Weâ€™ve updated the download with 1.5.1.1 which corrects these bugs and a few others. Visit the WordPress Downloads page for the freshest code.

SpamValve Testers Wanted

May182005

I think I’m almost ready to let some other people bang on SpamValve. I want to get a closed group of users to try it out and give me some feedback before I release it to the general public. If you’re interested in testing it, and meet the requirements below, contact me. Requirements: Requires root access on your server. Currently requires the ‘ipfw’ firewall system (I’m on FreeBSD). But if you think you can modify … Continue reading →