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(SOURCE:"jonu")- Fueld by blogs, wikis, RSS, etc. a document-centric, XML world will prevail in 5-10 years I predict. Right now the XML database tools are crude and only for early adopters (and production systems for most people probably will stay with relational databases and the like) but not in the long term. <QUOTE> It's possible that developers will want to stay within an XML abstraction for all their data sources. I've been living that experiment for a few months. My last few O'Reilly Network columns (1, 2) describe an XML-oriented approach to data management that I am continuing to find fruitful -- even without the capabilities that XML-savvy databases bring to the table. When you think about how long it took for SQL to become an established discipline, it helps put SQL/XML hybridization -- the subject of this InfoWorld story -- into perspective. It could take a decade or more for this stuff to really start to sink in. Along the way all sorts of new opportunities will emerge, and I find the whole thing terrifically exciting. </QUOTE> [ Roland Tanglao: KLogs]
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(SOURCE: The Death Of The Webmaster: Why Weblogs Bring A True Revolution To Internet Publishing - Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings)- Word!<QUOTE>So, you can see how the advent of weblogs, was masqueraded on the surface by the "bloggers" fad, and completely misunderstood by those who would be most benefitting from the advent of such technology-based opportunities. We are ushering into an era in which things are changing at an increasing faster pace, and where ever more frequently we are looking at reality with an outdated pair of glasses, so it is difficult for me to anticipate with greater detail what the appropriate understanding and ethical exploitation of the above will exactly bring about. What I can say with some amount of safety, is that I cannot recommend enough the use of weblog/CMS based technology for both traditional business applications as well as for those organizations entrenched in publishing methods that require a seven-day tour before the content even makes it to the test server. The learning curve for these powerful CMS technologies is basically none and the cost-effectiveness is several orders of magnitude better than when working with a full-time webmaster or with an IT/Information Publishing department that wants to "webmaster" everything you do.</QUOTE> [ Roland Tanglao: KLogs]
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| Thursday, July 10, 2003 |
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3. The development of any Website begins with its design. In this and the following chapters, you'll move from tables to using CSS as your primary page layout tool and learn a new set of design principles. By Sitepoint. 0707 [ WebReference News]
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When we convert to a database-backed Web application in order to solve problems of shared editing and presentation-oriented file formats, we trade away the convenience of the file-oriented approach. Can we have our cake and eat it too? [ XML.com]
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| Friday, June 06, 2003 |
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| Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
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I'm in the middle of a whole bunch of exams at the moment, but here's a quick tip that should make experimenting with and learning CSS a great deal easier. It involves bookmarklets. ... [ Simon Willison's Weblog]
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| Saturday, May 31, 2003 |
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| Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
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Drop-down menus without JavaScript? Enterprising designers like Stuart Robertson and Eric Meyer have created standards-based pull-down menus using the :hover pseudo-class to display other elements. By Andy King. 0529 [ WebReference News]
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Today's tutorial is going to be short one, as I'm working on one last piece of coursework. ...
[Simon Willison's Weblog]
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My CSS tutorial series has been getting some fantastic feedback, both in this blog's comments system and elsewhere.
This entry will summarise the most useful feedback, acting as a kind of errata to the previous entries.
Thanks to everyone who commented, there are too many to credit individually but you can see most of the points
in their original format by browsing the comments attached to each entry. ...
[Simon Willison's Weblog]
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Today's tutorial is going to be all theory. The box model is an inevitable part of CSS, and
understanding it is critical if you want to do anything remotely interesting.
Like most of CSS, it's a lot simpler than it sounds. ... [Simon Willison's Weblog]
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Yesterday we talked about the box model. Today we're going to put a small part of it to work,
by investigating ways of styling links. ...
[Simon Willison's Weblog]
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Yesterday we talked about the box model. Today we're going to put a small part of it to work, by investigating ways of styling links. ... [ Simon Willison's Weblog]
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Kendall Grant Clark reviews the latest working draft of XHTML 2.0, finds some welcome changes, and stresses the importance of XHTML as a leading XML vocabulary. [ XML.com]
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I've given Tim Bray his share of grief, but in this piece about the state of CSS, he nails it.
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| Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
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This is something we've needed for a long time. The CSS Zen Garden demonstrates CSS as used by graphic designers, and is a truly beautiful sight to behold. It currently showcases 5 radically different designs all using exactly the same markup, and invites further contributions from other designers. Finally, a proper demonstration that standards compliant, accessible, CSS driven web sites do not have to be boring or ugly. [ Simon Willison's Weblog]
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One of the aims of this course is to show how relatively simple CSS
can be used to make dramatic improvements to existing sites. ...
[Simon Willison's Weblog]
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| Saturday, May 17, 2003 |
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(SOURCE: Scripting News)- Nice! I disagree with the statement that most web sites don't need an RSS feed. EVERY site needs an RSS feed. Every site needs to be updated at some frequency (monthly, daily, yearly, etc.). When the site is updated, so too should the RSS feed be updated. These days the tools are there to make an RSS feed easily and painlessly.<quote> First, a question of necessity: Do I need to publish RSS feeds for my site? Probably not. Truth is, most sites don't need an RSS feed. RSS was made to share things like headlines, links, and story excerpts — hence its popularity with news sites and bloggers. If your webpage hardly changes from month-to-month, there’s really no pressing need to publish your own RSS feed. However, you might consider integrating content from relevant external RSS feeds onto your page to freshen things up. But you don't need to be the AP Newswire or an online Samuel Pepys to get good use out of RSS. RSS can spread the word about a band's tour dates, corporate league sports schedules, civic functions, snow reports, real estate listings, university lectures, software updates, et cetera. If you semi-regularly update content on your website, building an RSS feed is (as advertised) Really Simple, and provides a worthwhile way of delivering your content to your readers. Who's making and reading RSS? Well, all the "cool kids" are doing it — Bloggers and technophiles, by and large, have been the main publishers and consumers of RSS for the past few years. These crafty folk are often the vanguard of larger Internet trends even if they are a small slice of the Web demographic as a whole. You may be asking yourself, if it's only the cool kids who are into this whole RSS scene, should I bother with downloading an RSS newsreader? The answer is simple: Absolutely! For starters, try something like NetNewsWire for the Mac or AmphetaDesk for Windows, Mac, or Linux. Give RSS a spin for a few days and you'll be hooked. RSS apps bring a wide selection of bespoke news to your desktop without requiring you to wade through links and bookmarks. Generally free of layout code, heavy graphics, and advertising, RSS feeds download quickly. Plus, RSS uses simple code, so it's available no matter what kind of device you're using. For example, I often lack access to telephone lines when I'm on the road, so I use my Bluetooth cellular modem and NetNewsWire to keep in touch with my favorite sites. Test-driving an RSS reader is also the best way to understand what the RSS scene is about. Take a look at who’s talking: Bloggers dominate the list of syndication sites at Syndic8.com and NewsIsFree.com, but tech heavyweights like MSDN, Apple, and Oracle offer feeds, too. Major news outfits like the BBC and Christian Science Monitor also provide RSS feeds of their stories, some even on a section-by-section basis. Neat, eh? Next up is a brief overview of RSS, touching on some of the confusion which has surrounded the format. </quote> [ Roland Tanglao: KLogs]
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| Tuesday, May 13, 2003 |
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| Monday, May 12, 2003 |
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| Sunday, May 11, 2003 |
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| Saturday, May 10, 2003 |
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(SOURCE:"zeldman")- I want something like this on my blog!<quote> Display random images on a web page. </quote> [ Roland Tanglao: KLogs]
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| Sunday, May 04, 2003 |
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(SOURCE:"zeldman")- Great idea!<quote> What if you could say goodbye to web site browser compatibility issues once and for all? What if you could see screen captures of your web pages as they're going to look on any operating system platform? On any browser? Now you can, with Browser Cam. We've designed Browser Cam to make life easy for you whether you're a web master, web developer, or QA engineer. Browser Cam creates screen captures of your web pages loaded in any browser, and on any operating system, so you'll be 100% sure your web pages look good-and work right-on any platform. Click here to register now! </quote> [ Roland Tanglao: KLogs]
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In this installment we'll extend our XMLMap into the computing territory. While XML started out as a format for end user documents, its platform independence and low computing requirements allowed it to move into device and service configurations. By Michael Classen. 0430 [ WebReference News]
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| Sunday, April 27, 2003 |
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Phil Windley has done something really neat -- and something that I want to do on my intranet -- built a standardized calendar interchange where key events can be automatically posted on his weblog via RSS. I think this should be a simple thing to do in Conversant, I'm just not sure it supports iCal. But it should, as that's about the only "standard" going in the calendar space, AFIK.
Where Am I Going? Blog Events from iCal.  Thursday while I was listening to Ben Hammersly's talk on the semantic something or other, I noticed that he had a box on his weblog that showed events he was planning to attend in the near future. I thought that was a good idea, so I put one on my weblog too. If you look to the right, you'll see a box labeled Upcoming Events that lists things I'm planning on going to in the next 90 days. I didn't really want to double enter this on my calendar and my blog, so I decided I'd link the box on my blog to the calendar I keep on my Powerbook. This is the story of how I did it. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] [ b.cognosco]
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I'm planning to attend OSCOM at Harvard in May. It would be nice to get a chance to see TypePad around the time of the conference. It would provide a good reference point.
TypePad will lead CMS revolution.
Content Management Systems are becoming mass-market, according to this story by Ben Hammersley about TypePad after an exclusive peak:
The features are remarkable: there is a very powerful, but extremely simple, template builder. Users can redesign their weblogs and create fully compliant XHTML pages, with out knowing what that last phrase means. There is a built-in photo album, built-in server stats, so you can see who is coming to visit you and from where, built-in blogrolling (listing the sites you like to read), and built-in listing for your music, books and friends, producing a complete friend-of-a-friend file for every user. In short, with Typepad, SixApart has embraced almost every advance in weblogging over the past year, and wrapped it into a product my dad could use. It raises the bar for the personal publishing world in a way that the Blogger/ Google buyout promised but has yet to deliver. [...] [E M E R G I C . o r g] [ b.cognosco]
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| Sunday, April 20, 2003 |
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| Friday, April 04, 2003 |
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| Sunday, March 30, 2003 |
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| Saturday, March 22, 2003 |
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| Sunday, March 16, 2003 |
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I just stumbled across this experimental Query language for XML, called XCerpt. It is example-based variable binding, and looks very much like Prolog queries over a triples database, or like Redland's QBE would look if they used RDF/XML syntax instead of triples. Such query syntaxes seem popular for graph queries, but I'm not sure if they are really the best for users.
In any case, the paper on XCerpt was interesting. Although XQuery is not as "imperative" as the paper wants you to believe, XCerpt really does blur the line between "data" and "code" more than XQuery does. It makes you want to use it, because it hints seductively that code and data are really the same thing. [ Better Living Through Software]
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| Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
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Our team has recently consolidated a bunch of intranet sites housed on various team members' machines into subwebs on a larger server. I had been hosting one of the sites from my office, and needed a way to redirect all hyperlinks to that particular subweb to a new subweb without affecting the rest of the sites on the machine. ASP.NET provides a rather simple way of doing this:
using System.Web;
namespace Forward {
public class Forwarder : IHttpHandler
{
public Forwarder(){}
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
string subWeb = "http://mymachine/subweb";
string oldWeb = "http://newmachine/newsubweb";
HttpRequest request = context.Request;
HttpResponse response = context.Response;
string newUrl = request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Replace(subWeb,newWeb);
response.Redirect(newUrl);
}
public bool IsReusable
{
get { return false; }
}
}
}
compiled as forward.dll and placed in the subweb's bin/ directory, with the following added to the Web.config:
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" path="*" type="Forward.Forwarder, Forward" />
</httpHandlers>
Funny enough, this only worked for paths like http://mymachine/subweb/foo.aspx, since paths like http://mymachine/subweb/foo.htm were routed directly to the filesystem by IIS and bypassed ASP.NET. I remembered having this problem before, when .NET was still in development, and the trick was to associate the "*" file extension with ASP.NET in the script map. Too bad IIS no longer stores the script map in the registry where it's easy to mess with.
A bit of searching and I found:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q232068#3
I just had to use MetaEdit to find LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/ScriptMaps and add:
*,C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv1.2.x86dbgaspnet_isapi.dll,1
and everything is working great now.
[ Better Living Through Software]
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