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JavaScript

Progressive Enhancement

The book title, Adding Ajax, should be synonymous with the concept of progressive enhancement in Ajax development, and I’ve gone through the earlier chapters and adjusted accordingly. Progressive enhancement (or should that be Progressive Enhancement?) is the philosophy that you create web pages that don’t require any scripting at all, first; then add scripting effects in […]

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Technology Weblogging

Ella sings the Blues

WordPress 2.1 is code-named “Ella” after Ella Fitzgerald. Well, if that’s so, then Ella is singing the blues. In the next couple of weeks, I planned on upgrading all of my weblogs to the new version. I’m also moving the few people who had tried out Wordform to WordPress 2.1, so they’re using a supported weblogging […]

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History

In Search of Lacey Smith

I’m not sure when I’ll be able to return to my search, but I hope to sometime in the near future. I’m trying to find a Lacey Smith, though he’s long been dead and the only event of any note in his life that I can see is he shot and killed Polk Grimes the […]

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Web

Wikipedia and nofollow

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. That bastard Google warp-around nofollow rears its ugly little head again, this time with Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales, chief Pedian has issued a proclamation that Wikipedia outgoing links will now be labeled with ‘nofollow’, as a measure to prevent link spam. seomoz.org seems to think this is a good thing: What will be interesting […]

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Web

Article pulled from Google’s database?

Post wasn’t pulled, just not propagated across all the data centers. Did I happen to mention I haven’t had a good night’s sleep for the last few days? Disregard the paranoia. However, there is a silver lining. Thanks to Seth for pointing out this Google data center tool. Put in the search term, and then switch […]