Charles Miller: Hacking Radio by Charles MillerTales of my hackery with Radio Userland, and useful links thereof.Sometimes it's not Microsoft's fault.- (Found June 24, 2008 ) At last. After a week of reading everyone else's apologia and Microsoft-blaming on the RealNames collapse, Joel Spolsky bluntly points out the facts.http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20020513.html (Untitled)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Davezilla: These are the Daves of our Lives. "Everyone knows a Dave or three. Daves are always dependable, competent, rather silly and the jack-of-all trades in most offices. Dave is always the guy who can fix the copier, jumpstart your engine or make that noisy dog calm down." Scripting News When I started working for my current employer, the company had five Davids (including two of the three company directors). Which wouldn't be too surprising, except that there were only around ten...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/06/05.html#a125 (Untitled)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) A quick huzzah to my TiBook. Her name is epiphany (or 'epi' for short). I just upgraded to OS X 10.1.5, and must reboot. According to 'uptime', my last reboot was 29 days ago, also occasioned by an OS upgrade. Not bad for a laptop, eh Of course, my desktop W2K box has a similar uptime. And my Linux box has been up 70 days now. This is why I tend to stick anyone I see who says "I tried Operating System, but it crashed all the time!" in the this-person-is-full-of-shit basket. (for modern values.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/06/05.html#a127 Reserved domain names- (Found June 24, 2008 ) A quick note for anyone writing documentation, or filling in default values in the configuration file for an application. The domains example.com, example.net and example.org are reserved for use in documentation. Thus, if you use bobexample.com in your default configuration file, you can be guaranteed that the address will never exist, and thus there will never be a "Bob" who is annoyed at your stupid choice of example domain names. Addendum: The authority for this comes from RFC 2606, which.http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt Microsoft Java Tactics- (Found June 24, 2008 ) The Register: Microsoft Restores Java to XP. Here's the anatomy of Microsoft's decision-making. In an effort to cut off Java's client-side air-supply, Microsoft removes their JVM from XP. Sun milks every drop of publicity out of this. Anyone who finds an applet they can't use is able to download Sun's JRE1.4 Java plugin, which supports all the latest APIs, and has nifty (but as yet unrealized) features like Java Web-Start With this, plus NetscapeMozilla's out of the box support...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/06/19.html#a143 Replacement Radio Aggregator, part 1.- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Step one: a replacement Radio aggregator that remembers when you've un-checked a story, and doesn't check it again. This hack will only be useful for people who have this preference turned on.. License: This code is provided for free. It is derived from the aggregator code within Radio Userland, I thus retain no rights to it. It is UNTESTED CODE, and is provided WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. If it corrupts your data, crashes your computer, erases your hard drive, sleeps with your wife and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/06/13.html#a141 Seven tricks that Web users don't know- (Found June 24, 2008 ) developerWorks: Seven tricks that Web users don't know. About what developers assume non-technical web-users will know, but they really don't.http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/us-tricks/ (Untitled)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Found in radio.html.viewNewsItems: (local flSkip = true) if adritem.url == xmlUrl flskip = false if flskip continue flskip isn't used anywhere else. I am now officially afraid of reading Userland code. :)http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/06/12.html#a139 (Untitled)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Dave Winer responds, but his response makes my head hurt. We seem to use one definition of "journalist" when talking about professionals, and another definition when talking about webloggers, but this proves webloggers are journalists. Back when I did Philosophy 100, this was called equivocation. If declaring your interests up-front is a valid way out for webloggers-as-journalists, then it must be for journalists-as-journalists. Otherwise, we have to declare the two to be fundamentally...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/06/12.html#a138 (Untitled)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Radio News Aggregator features I want, in order of importance: Multiple categories for RSS feeds, each with its own aggregator page The ability for news items to remember that they'd previously been marked "don't delete", so I don't have to keep un-checking their delete boxes as I go through the rest of the list The ability to navigate past the first page of items The first is the most wanted. Categories in the aggregator would make my life so much more pleasant, and make my...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100190/categories/radioUserland/2002/06/12.html#a137 |