How to get Movable Type to do faceted classification. [librarian.net]
MovingAwayFromXslt
MovingAwayFromXslt. All of this site is written in simple XML documents and transformed to HTML. I find this works really well, and means I never have to worry about dealing with HTML formats. (Not that fancy layout is my style, as you can tell.) I've even written a whole book that way. For most of… Continue reading MovingAwayFromXslt
Big Brother is watching you – and documenting
Ha'aretz – Big Brother is watching you – and documenting. eBay, ever anxious to up profits, bends over backward to provide data to law enforcement officials “I don't know another Web site that has a privacy policy as flexible as eBay's,” says Joseph Sullivan. A little bit later, Sullivan explains what he means by the… Continue reading Big Brother is watching you – and documenting
Upcoming
Upcoming (via Many2Many) is interesting. But it immediately causes the following questions to come to mind; I'm sure I must not be the first to ask such things: Has a method to embed iCal into XML ever been approved or agreed upon? If so, let me refer to it as xCal. Has a method to… Continue reading Upcoming
Notes and Tips: Apple Security Responsibility
Notes and Tips: Apple Security Responsibility. Apple needs to address security problems with Mac OS X in a more timely way, as other Unix-system vendors do. [MacInTouch]
Why Mac's are more secure than Windows computers
Why Mac's are more secure than Windows computers. David Pogue in the N.Y. Times addresses this misconception: “Mac OS X and Linux are virus-free because they offer virus writers a much smaller “audience” than Windows — a notion that’s been much repeated in the press, most recently last week’s BusinessWeek cover story. That, as it… Continue reading Why Mac's are more secure than Windows computers
Calling All IEEE Members: Democracy Needs You
Calling All IEEE Members: Democracy Needs You. IEEE members: save democracy from a broken standards-committee! The IEEE, normally the sobersided epitome of integrity and accountability, has had one of its standards-committees jump the tracks. The people who are writing the IEEE standard for voting machines have been doing their best to rig their deliberative process… Continue reading Calling All IEEE Members: Democracy Needs You
Landline Numbers Can Go Mobile
Landline Numbers Can Go Mobile. Not only will cell-phone users soon be able to keep their phone numbers when changing carriers, but this fall, folks will also be able to convert their wired phone numbers to a cell phone. It's not clear, however, how phone companies will interpret the new rules. [Wired News]
Ask the PM
Ask the PM. Ask the PM: Jennifer Taylor, Product Manager for Dreamweaver, is participating in an offline interveiw at DMXZone… next Tuesday Bruce Lawson will collect the best questions from the forum and forward them to her for her reply, which will then be published on the site. (Posting requires membership.) [JD on MX]
Where's Central?
Where's Central?. Mike Chambers has just published an article on the Macromedia Developer Center which provides an update on Macromedia Central and talks about what folks can expect in the product after the various sneak peaks at different trade shows over the last year or so … [An Architect's View]