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Web

Rosebud

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I didn’t know this post had actually published to my syndication feed until I spotted references to it in Bloglines. Since the URL is on permanent record now, I decided to provide something to fill the gap. The best quote related to Web 2.0 comes from Nick Douglas at Blogebrity: Web […]

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Connecting RDF Technology

Portable data

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In addition to being on a panel at SxSW next year, I’m also giving a full day tutorial on RDF at XML 2005 on November 18th. Which also happens to be my birthday. This is not going to be a passive exercise. I won’t be putting up slide after Powerpoint slide. There […]

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Diversity Technology

Maids, Mommies, and Mistresses

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Kathy Sierra writes on how to speak at Tech conferences. Some of her advice is good, but I disagree, and strongly, on a couple of assertions she makes. Specifically Kathy believes that if women aren’t represented well in this industry, it’s our own damn fault. One of her tips for getting […]

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Technology Web

The time is now 1997

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Back in 1996 and into 1997, frames were big, as was the use of HTML tables to organize a web page. The current look for this site was copied directly from backup files I had for 1996 through 1998. The links, if you try them, will open up various pages […]

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JavaScript

What does work

One of the old DHTML examples that still works is this Dance of the Sugar Plum Divs, using animated objects built on top of cross-browser DHTML objects. Just in case anyone is interested, here are the cross-browser objects, and the Animator classes. This technology is the same that powers AJAX.