Month: May 2005

read multiple RSS feeds, post new entries to Movable Type.

I like to keep track of everything I write around the web on my own weblog. This script grabs the RSS feeds from the sites I have write access to, parses out the things that I wrote today, and posts them to my own site. I run it from cron every night. The

Dive Into Greasemonkey is a book about programming with Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension for customizing web pages.

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In this tutorial I demonstrate how to style a Definition List, which is equally suitable for menus, but is a little easier to understand.

A mosaic of global land cover from Envisat’s MERIS instrument. The same sensor is to be used as the basis of ESA’s GLOBCOVER project to creating the most detailed land cover map ever. For this mosaic a total of 1561 orbits taking place over the period May

This article is a case study of the use of Perl and XML/RDF technologies to channel disparate sources of data into a semi-structured repository. This repository helped to build structured OLAP warehouses by mining an RDF repository with SAX machines. Chan

A location-based social networking system

RSS feeds and their templates

For a few months, I had deliberated adding a WYSIWYG Editor into the Movable Type entry screen and when Typepad implemented an editor into its interface I got jealous. So, here’s a way to implement the very powerful HTMLArea into Movable Type (currently o

MT::REST is a Perl package that provides Movable Type support for REST-style access to all of Movable Type’s core functionality via an extensible framework using only methods inherent to HTTP and a simple XML vocabulary. REST queries and results can be va

Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws

“your failed business model is not my problem…”

It is a common scenario to have a list of entries sorted by date of publication. As this list may be rather long, it is reasonable to group entries and mark each group with a distinct group header. If you want to group by day, you can use the MTDateHeader

TigerWiki is here to track all of the great changes found in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. TigerWiki isn’t exactly a “tips & hints” site, as much as it is a way to find and track all of the cool new features of Tiger. And unlike sites like Mac OS X Hints, TigerWi

This document provides an overview of Dashboard and the widgets that exist in it. It walks you through the creation of a sample widget, discusses optional features that may be implemented in a widget, and touches on native code integration through a widge

the challenge was to build a lockpick device by using computer parts, and of course we did it, and it works pretty well and really fast.

Use this website to create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case. For folding directions, see the about section. To add more tracks, a mailing address, or graphics to the case, use the advanced form. Mix CD cases created wit

The GIMP is the most popular free alternative to Photoshop – available for alot of platforms. Photoshop users have big problems switching because they have a hard time locating Photoshop’s features in The GIMP.