Sam RubyIt’s just dataRubyConf 2008- September 11, 2008 My proposal has been accepted for RubyConf 2008. Because of the presence of Ruby implementers, this is going to be a bit challenging as it will likely turn into two talks at once. One sharing experiences with fellow developers concerning things they may need to watch out for, and another with language designers about the impact of their changes. It also is likely to be true, as it was at OSCON, that there will be members of the audience who know way more about this subject than I do. I had...http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/09/11/RubyConf-2008 Small Updates- September 10, 2008 Alf Eaton: Aside: if youre reading a Planet that contains HubLog, those posts will all jump to the top - sorry! (I wish Planets dealt better with small updates so I didnt have to worry about it). I dont know what publishing software you use, but I see you provide an Atom feed, and Planet 2.0 and Venus both implement atom:updated as specified in RFC 4287.http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/09/10/Small-Updates SVG via CSS- September 7, 2008 Now that I have my weblog looking reasonably consistent between Gecko and WebKit based browsers, Ive taken another look at Opera. Opera doesnt have support for border-radius, but does have support for background images in SVG, which can be used to provide the same effect. My Nav Bar on my test site now employs this technique, and it requires two separate images: 039 on CCD and CCD on FFF. Frankly, my first reaction to this was mixed. The pluses for SVG in CSS is that it doesnt require either...http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/09/07/SVG-via-CSS Raleigh Convention Center- September 6, 2008 Grand Opening is occurring this weekend. Took a tour yesterday, looks modern, clean, and should attract more businesses into downtown. The facilities looks to be about a quarter the size of the combined Moscone Center (i.e., North, South, and West combined). Id wager that the weak link in attracting major (international or even national) conferences is the airport, as Raleigh is neither a major destination nor a national hub. One unique feature is the shimmer wall which is fun to look both at...http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/09/06/Raleigh-Convention-Center Chrome Polishing- September 5, 2008 Google Chrome gave view-source some much appreciated attention. I often want to take a look at the CSS or JavaScript or some related link, and control-U takes me to the source of the page in a separate tab, with all of the lengthy lines line wrapped and line numbered. Best of all, all of the links are active. I simply find what Im looking for, and click on it, and I see that page in another tab. This caused me to track down and fix a few WebKit compatibility issues, both with my weblog, and...http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/09/05/Chrome-Polishing Continuing Saga of textplain- September 4, 2008 Is this feed valid At the moment, the feedvalidator only issues a warning on the use of a textplain mime type. At the time the feedvalidator was originally written, this was only a venial sin, primarily because browsers had no material feed support at the time, and because both desktop and web server based aggregators largely ignored the content type. Times have changed a bit.http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/09/04/Continuing-Saga-of-text-plain X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff- September 3, 2008 Eric Lawrence: Sending the new X-Content-Type-Options response header with the value nosniff will prevent Internet Explorer from MIME-sniffing a response away from the declared content-type. I cant can now reproduce this, either with the feeds I care about or and with the testcase provided.http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/09/03/X-Content-Type-Options-nosniff Translation is Hard; Lets Go Shopping!- September 2, 2008 I should have known better, but when I started to take a deep dive into Localizing Rails for the purpose of adding coverage to this in AWDwR3, I thought I could handle translating the dozen and a half phrases that appeared on the website. That turned out to be much harder than I would have thought.http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/09/02/Translation-is-Hard-Lets-Go-Shopping |