BurningbirdIf you develop open source software, or software that you give to the public out of the kindness of your heart, document it. I know people will say, “But it’s free! How can you add more demands on the caring, giving person who wrote it?” Easily. Software that requires one to edit C makefiles because […]
I had a friend ask me a couple of days ago why it’s taking so long to finish the Practical RDF book. I had to laugh (either that or scream) because to write about something such as Siderean Software’s RDF-based search and navigation product, Seamark, required reading over 100 pages of documentation, not to mention installation of […]
Another fooflah, this time over archiving. Dorothea picked on Mark’s archive setup, which is based on archive-month-link. Jonathon responds with a push-back at Dorothea’s weekly archive. He’s joined in his comments by Mark who pushes back with justification for his archive-month-link. Aquarionics bravely joines the discussion, Dorothea retracts. Could be me misreading everything but it sure looked like good fun was NOT […]
One more modification. Since I do make updates to a weblog posting — to add new information, make corrections, whatever — I made these easier to spot. First, I’m now highlighting the change, putting a box around it with a different color of background. In addition, I pulled my old MT tag-based recent entry list […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to provide the details of my overall Threadneedle strategy to fill in some of the gaps in the material I’ve supplied to this point for comments, Trackback, and Backtrack. I also want to provide instructions on how to incorporate some of this into non-Movable Type environments. My goal […]