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w3c.recommend(xproc)

Posted on May 11, 2010 by adam

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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On Bankers

Posted on February 6, 2010 by adam

Here’s some unsolicited advice for performing long-distance one-off transactions with financial institutions: if your transaction is at all unusual and requires that documentation of some sort or another be passed around and notarized and suchlike — get the procedure documented.  … Continue reading →

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In Which I Become a Food Blogger

Posted on September 24, 2009 by adam

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 →

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Adding Shift-select with jQuery

Posted on April 18, 2008 by adam

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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