Charles Miller: Hacking Radio by Charles MillerTales of my hackery with Radio Userland, and useful links thereof.Please Resubscribe (reminder)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) In the process of reorganising my weblog, I'm discontinuing this category. All interesting content is now back on the homepage. If you're subscribed to this RSS feed, please instead subscribe to http:radio.weblogs.com0100190rss.xml instead.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/06/19.html#a145 A Simple Character Entity Chart- (Found June 24, 2008 ) A link that might be useful to web-designers, from Mark Pilgrim: Adrian Roselli: A Simple Character Entity Chart. Both entity names and entity numbers are listed, along with the representation of the character (so you can test for compatibility by loading this page in your browser).http://evolt.org/article/ala/17/21234/ More on the Browser Wishlist...- (Found June 24, 2008 ) More on the browser feature I want. I'm tempted to learn how to hack a Mozilla sidebar and write this, but I barely have enough time to breathe right now, and I still haven't got that sodding Java RCS up to dogfood yet. Number of visits shouldn't be the only deciding factor on what goes on the list. A site I've been to several hundred times in the past, but not at all in the last two months is probably less important than one I've only been to three times, but all in the last week. Perhaps a..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/06/03.html#a121 Web browser feature I want:- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I hate keeping bookmarks. Often, I'll find myself having visited a site a lot through links from other sites, but never remember its URL because each individual time I visited, the site wasn't important enough to remember. I want the web browser to keep track of what sites I visit frequently, and put them in a list for me. And I want the feature to be smart enough to work without me having to perform any configuration, or maintain any lists manually. The bookmark paradigm hasn't really changed.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/06/03.html#a120 Windows Update Sucks- (Found June 24, 2008 ) While at work, I use Windows 2000. This it not by any choice of mine, it's based entirely on a choice made by IBM several years ago to never finish fully functional Linux version of their Java IDE, VisualAge for Java. (The replacement for VAJ, Websphere Studio Application Developer, is available for Linux. We still have a lot of projects tied up in VAJ, but once we stop working on them, it's bye-bye Windows.) Today, I got around to doing what all computer users, regardless of OS, must do. I...http://www.windowsupdate.com/ Slashdot and RealNames- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Slashdot talks about the RealNames "Blame Microsoft" game, making the long post I was going to write on the subject completely redundant. A company whose business plan solely consists of maintaining a single contract is doomed. A company whose business plan consists of maintaining a contract with Microsoft, notorious for only ever looking out for number one, is doubly doomed. That RealNames got investors at all is another example of the dot-bomb lunacy writ large.http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/21/2349213 Yeah sure, whatever- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Today's "yeah, right" quote comes from page 4 of Programming Web Services with SOAP by Snell, Tidwell and Kulchenko (O'Reilly) Every business issue will have a software-based solution Yeah sure, whatever.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/05/22.html#a111 Sets, sets, sets. That's all you ever think about.- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Google Sets look rather interesting. Go to the sets page, and type in "Dave dee" and "dozy" into the first two boxes. Click the "small set" button, and the set is filled out to include "Dave Dee", "Dozy", "Beaky", "Mick" and "Titch" (who are an obscure 60's band) Type in "Kennedy", "Lincoln" and "Reagan", and get a list of 13 other presidents' names. I tried putting in random terms, but it seems that "fish", "Elvis" and the "Magna Carta" don't have quite enough in common to form a set. At...http://labs1.google.com/sets Fun with Fingerprint Readers- (Found June 24, 2008 ) From Bruce Schneier's Crypto-gram Matsumoto uses gelatin, the stuff that Gummi Bears are made out of. First he takes a live finger and makes a plastic mold. (He uses a free-molding plastic used to make plastic molds, and is sold at hobby shops.) Then he pours liquid gelatin into the mold and lets it harden. (The gelatin comes in solid sheets, and is used to make jellied meats, soups, and candies, and is sold in grocery stores.) This gelatin fake finger fools fingerprint detectors about 80% of..http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0205.html#5 Radio Annoyance.- (Found June 24, 2008 ) On OS X (I haven't checked on Windows), a modal dialog box in Radio-the-desktop-app will completely freeze Radio-the-desktop-website. This causes a problem, because when I turn Upstreaming on or off from the Dock, I never actually see the dialog box that pops up to confirm it, and then I run around in circles wondering why the website has stopped responding entirely. I'm offline right now, this post is mostly a reminder to myself to post the same point to the discussion group when I get home.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/05/15.html#a108 |