After this goes live and until I get around to publishing next, it’ll say “(3001 fragments)” on the ongoingfront page, which the majority of you who are currently looking at a feed reader never see. …
One of the latest items of news in the music game scene is that Sting is now confimed to be lending his likeness to Guitar Hero : World Tour, along with the already announced / leaked likes of Ted …
Cappuccino Web Framework. Now open source (LGPL)—the Objective-C-in-JavaScript web application toolkit from 280 North, who are speaking at this year’s FOWA in October. Beautiful logo.
Careful readers of the Franklin Street Statement will have noticed that it doesn’t ever use the word ‘web.’ That was very deliberate. While web services are pretty important to all our lives at this …
I almost cried last week. For the first time since high school, I lost hours of writing work in an instantaneous failure of software. Later in the week, I found myself looking for some unrelated Emacs …
Last month the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) asked for comments on the European Commission’s proposal to almost double the term of copyright protection on sound recordings. The Commission’s …
I’m back! The last 3 days, I spent wandering around Egham, a small town in greater London looking at a place to live. Finally I have found a nice place to probably live the next 3 years at.
The thing …
Google Chrome gave view-source some much appreciated attention. I often want to take a look at the CSS or JavaScript or some related link, and control-U takes me to the source of the page in a …
You know that negative thought? The angry one, or the fearful one, or the pitying one, or the hating one... The one that decides that someone else needs to amend …
Wow, the Mission is jumping tonight. Sirens, a car driving around in loops with an ultrasound sound system, and a man who shouts "hein" every 45 seconds.
I'm a bit under the gun today, so here as …
<img>Thanks to our friends over at Cafe Press a range of digital urban gear is available for purchase - we especially like the messenger bag which we have personally street tested out and about …
Prats of The WeekThose of you who were aghast that I should have the temerity to express an opinion about the US elections yesterday will be pleased to hear that today, today anyway, I will confine …
I believe in tough love for my brain-children. It’s report card time. Let’s see how Ubiquity 0.1.1 holds up to my exacting standards.
For ease of learning, it should:
Accept input in something …
When you type something into Ubiquity and see a list of five suggestions, those aren't the best five, they're just the first five that the parser can come up with.
So often, a particular strategy becomes dogma. Copyleft licensing
constantly allures us in this manner. Every long-term software freedom
advocate I have ever known — myself included — has spent …
One of the best libraries for writing XMPP clients and components is getting a lot better. The team behind Twisted Python is gearing up to do some major improvements on twisted.words.jabber, which …
Our fundraising campaign, ORG-GRO, continues apace. And although initial results look good - we’ve gone from 750 to over 900 fivers in two months - we’ve still got a long way to go before we reach our …
I blogged a little while ago about the soul-crushing tedium that was my brief, never to be repeated experience with EVE Online. Well, happily Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation has waded in with his size 9’s …
This morning, I checked the all-time box office figures at imdb.com to see what progress "The Dark Knight" had made. Say what you will, I think it has a chance of knocking "Titanic" off its perch. I …
Scale: for me it feels like it's all about scale in America. Trying to somehow scale up the human condition to cover huge, inhuman scales: scales of power, scales of income difference, scales of vast …
A little (very little) more history.
I spent more time at Atari waiting for assemblies to finish than you’d probably believe. I mean, assembly language; how hard can it be? Yet the Assembler/Editor …
Is this feed valid? At the moment, the feedvalidator only issues a warning on the use of a text/plain mime type. At the time the feedvalidator was originally written, this was only a venial sin, …
One of the problems with doing most of your business internationally is that you’re at the mercy of currency exchange rates, with the ever-present possibility of losing money just because the market …
The team at Global Radio (formerly GCap Media) is the largest group of Django developers I’ve personally worked with, consisting of 14 developers split into two scrum teams, all contributing to the …
So, V8. Well-hyped. It’s got a cool logo. And many claims are being made about its performance. But it is not the only kid on the block. As we blogged about a couple of weeks ago, Mozilla has …
I came across this post by Robert Accettura while I was reading about FriendFeed’s new Simple Update Protocol (SUP). I have seen his view echoed elsewhere that XMPP is hard to implement, resource …
Eric Lawrence: Sending the new X-Content-Type-Options response header with the value nosniff will prevent Internet Explorer from MIME-sniffing a response away from the declared content-type.
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