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w3c.recommend(xproc)
As an unabashed fan of the angle brackety type things, I’m chuffed to learn, via Norman Walsh, that XProc is now a W3C recommendation. Congratulations to all the people who put in all the work to get it there. Take … Continue reading
On Nostalgia
There’s a whiff of wistfulness out there on the ‘tubes for the passing of Sun Microsystems, and I’ve got to admit I’ve participated a bit in that; the absorption by Oracle of Sun’s assets certainly marks some kind of transition … Continue reading
The Third G Drops
I’ve been thinking of it as effectively a rumour up until now, but today, my Android phone started getting a 3G signal in Chapel Hill and Carrboro (that’s T-Mobile, in case you didn’t know). So, now I go from having … Continue reading
In Which I Become a Food Blogger
Some time ago, a friend pointed me to this magical stuff that turns fats into powders. T’other day, I finally got my hands on some of this tapioca maltodextrin, as it’s called; it’s a starch, and there’s really not much … Continue reading
Generating CSV from XML
I was helping a friend out recently who wanted to import some XML data he got into a more useful format [ ed. WHAT? err, useful to him, 'kay?]. It seems like there are a few services out there that … Continue reading
A Few Minutes With Apache Sling
Apache Sling is almost painfully hip, in a way only a dedicated nerd could appreciate (or, ok, believe) — it provides a RESTful frontend to a Java Content Repository, and the whole thing is based on OSGi. Roughly, it gives … Continue reading
Straight Outta Victoria
UVic’s Electronic Textual Cultures Lab encodes a song by some music guy in the Text Encoding Initiative XML format. There is, of course, a video. What I want to know is, does this mean XML is cool or hopelessly passé? … Continue reading
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Goings On About Town
So, there’s this small office in downtown Chapel Hill that used to have a paper “Google” banner in the window. Today, on a trip past the Cosmic Cantina, I noticed that the window now has a more permanent logo for … Continue reading
Fun With Copyright Renewal Records
Based on an enormous amount of work by contributors to Project Gutenberg and the Distributed Proofreaders, combined with healthy sourcing of the US copyright office’s records, Google has compiled a a list of works originally copyrighted between 1923 and 1963 … Continue reading
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Adding Shift-select with jQuery
I’ve been using jQuery a bit here and there to add some (I hope) usability enhancements and for light AJAJ work. Today I encountered a situation where I thought adding the “shift-select” feature on a longish list of checkboxes would … Continue reading