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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

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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

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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

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So, I Broke Down

Just a little bit; I tried out the prerelease of IntelliJ IDEA 7.0, and I liked it enough after some rough handling in casual use to actually pony up for a license now that it’s officially released. Like Netbeans, a … Continue reading

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On Discipline

I’ve been brewing a post about the eternal need for discipline by developers, and then Jeff Atwood posts Discipline Makes Strong Developers. Mine was going to be really good, too, full of all sorts of insights, phrased in a manner … Continue reading

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reST (no, not REST)

Well, this seems worthwhile. I came across David Goodger’s “Code Like a Pythonista,” which takes the form of an S5 presentation generated from reStructured Text source. For the lazy, here’s the documentation on generating S5 from reST source. I more … Continue reading

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