Sean Gallagher has published a nice summary of where RSS and ATOM standards and politics are currently
Found via CMSWatch.
Category Archives: Code
Mono Experiment
Jeffrey McManus, who works for eBay, wrote a command-line utility that fetches the current eBay categories and tells you what has changed since the last time you downloaded it. The reason I’m posting about it here is that Jeffrey is asking folks to test out the C# script on a Mono/Linux platform.
I spoke a little bit about Mono at the M&T conference last month, so for those of you who were at the session, this is an example of how the .NET framework is being ported to other platforms. It may eventually be feasible to run most .NET apps on Linux as easily as on Windows.
Mono and ASP.NET
The latest release of Mono now fully supports ASP.NET which means it should be feasible to run ASP.NET code under the Apache web server. Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET framework.
More Tips on Classification in MovableType
*Pixelcharmer: Field Notes: Classification and MT has pointers to some new tools for MT as well as some interesting background on top-down vs. bottom-up classification schemes.
Faceted Classification with MovableType
Tanya has posted a rather ingenious solution for creating a faceted classification system for posts in MovableType. This gets around the built-in functionality of MT that only allows one level of categories.
I love this closing line from her entry:
This is additional evidence to back up my observation that most problems in life can be solved with the creative use of regular expressions.
CSS Rockets
This is worth checking out if you work with cascading style sheets: Simon Willison: CSS ain’t Rocket Science. Lots of good tips and ideas.
Electronic Archeology
O’Reilly Network: Electronic Archaeology [Apr. 29, 2003]:
In the real world, most programmers spend most of their time going through code that’s a hundred years old and extremely messy. If it ever was designed, the design document was lost long ago. It has evolved over the years. Hundreds of people have worked on it. And it appears most of them knew very little about programming.
This article is pretty technical but I love the idea of software archeology. A thousand years from now, will some grad student be writing a thesis on scripting languages of the late 20th century?
C. David Gammel, CAE 