My internet connection burst back into life after we replaced the cable wire, so I was able to return to work on getting my Mac ready for Open Source development. Installing and configuring MySQL and WordPress was quite simple, and matched the instructions at MacZealots; except that I am using an older PHP/MySQL client, with it’s […]
Year: 2004
Wiki and Weblogs
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray wrote a short note on weblogs and wikis, basically saying that contrary to assertions at Sun and elsewhere that the two are convergent, they’re both very different: A wiki is a collaborative construction engine, with refactoring and edit-in-place being the dominant forms of activity, and many equal voices […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. An issue about attaching metadata recorded as RDF/XML to a web object, particularly a web page, is that there is no clean way to embed the XML into an (X)HTML document; at least, embed the data and still have the page validate. Yet creating separate files just for the RDF/XML […]
Extending the Syndication feeds
I have never been one to jump on the syndication and aggregator wagons, following all the latest innovations. I still don’t provide full feeds for my syndication feeds at Burningbird; and I think Podcasting is half craze, half pirate radio station without the élan of continually escaping the clutches of the FCC. But I do […]
Disconnected connected development
I do most of my development on remote servers, either at my client’s or my own sites. However, when contemplating server-side development in a disconnected environment, I had to decide if I wanted to create the local work space on my PC or my Mac. The PC has more space, but most applications run into […]
