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Just Shelley

Challenges

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The way of dealing with the stress of the interviewing process is NOT to sit in front of the computer, becoming frustrated at the BS associated with RSS. I need to work on the RDF book, true, but I’m also taking time to do some hiking. In fact, I’m going […]

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People

When friendships fade

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Loves come and go, but a friendship should last forever. Well, so the story goes, but we know that in reality, this doesn’t happen. Over time people change and friends grow apart and the connectivity you once shared with a friend fades away — daily calls giving way to weekly […]

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Technology

PHP/MySQL Help

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My system has MySql 2.23.51, Apache 1.3, PHP4, FreeBSD, and I’m running into problems trying to update or insert into MySql with PHP. The update or insert works, but I get warning back: Warning: MySQL: Unable to save result set The change is saved, but the application breaks. No error […]

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Weblogging

RSS, XML, and Namespaces—oh my!

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave writes that the use of namespaces is fundamentally flawed because the hasty introduction of namespaces into RSS 2.0 generated problems with several aggregators: If this is true, we can’t design using namespaces until: 1. All the parsers are fixed, or 2. Users/content providers expect and accept this kind of breakage (I […]

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Weblogging

The hunt for the wild MT Documenters

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon Delacour and Allan Moult have started their Movable Type Documentation posts. If ThreadNeedle had existed, this tool would be perfect for tracking their work, as well as ancillary writing and posts related to their generous efforts. I know it’s only a matter of time before others also post their own tips […]