BurningbirdI’ve just uploaded the first beta release of Wordform, under a build I’ve named “Sklodowska-Curie”, after the famous Madame Curie. The sidebar has a link to the download file at SourceForge. I’ve decided to keep Wordform in perpetual beta release, to match current accepted practice as defined by Google and other fine companies. By doing […]
Thanks to Suw Charman (and here and here), I found out what that magenta line down my PowerBook laptop monitor is most likely caused by — a short in the connection between the ribbon cable and the monitor. Seems to be a fairly common problem with PowerBooks–Apple, not being the most concerned about quality assurance it seems when it comes […]
Flickr recently pulled its use of Flash in some of the pages and replaced it with DHTML (Dynamic HTML). If you’re not familiar with DHTML, it’s a mix of scripting language and underlying page ‘object’ model’ used to modify the appearance or behavior of the page without having to reload it from the server. I was pleased […]
how much I love brilliantly executed satire? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Web 1.0! Please do not let the excitement go to your heads so much that you piss your pants. Or if you, do it in someone else’s garage.
The security problem I mentioned in the last post does NOT impact on Wordform — huzzah! However, I did some good feedback about other areas of concern, so I will be making some modifications to ensure the application is as secure as possible — including making sure the metadata forms are only called from within […]