Archive for 'web'

IT360 Notes – Ajax in the Real World Part 1

This is a three hour tutorial from Kris who is pushing his Ajax book. It will go over, from start to finish, the creation of a sidebar chatbox that’s database driven and Ajax enabled. I’m not going to type up pieces of code but I will note concepts. Firebug is a firefox extension that allows [...]

IT360 Notes – Wikinomics keynote

Writer of the Wikinomics book, Don Tapscott is giving this presentation. His book is on mass collaboration. He’s from New Paradigm. His book was given out with the expensive passes. All non-reserved seating is used. There’s about twenty people standing five minutes prior. Thirty-something two minutes prior to start. This has a lot of notes. [...]

IT360 Notes – Using RSS Feeds lecture

This first semenar I visited was conducted by Kris Hadlock of Studio Sedition. He’s an AJAX designer and wrote Ajax for Web applications, published by O’Reilly. I’m already pretty familiar with RSS 2.0 but I did find the bit on the cloud tag interesting. Also, I was surprised that the skiphours tag can have an [...]

Another evil of keeping postids in the permalinks

Okay, it looks like all of my built up links on technorati are toast. When you export WordPress to XML and import it to the new page, it does not keep the post IDs, therefore my old permalinks which include %post_id% are invalid even with the Permalink Migration plugin. Google, Yahoo and most search engines [...]

Okay, new host!

This isn’t really anything newsworthy, but I am on a new host now. I’ve also enabled a new plugin that will allow people to subscribe to individual posts and receive email when they’re updated. I’ve found that very handy. I’ve changed the DNS entries on my old server as well as pointed my domain to [...]

Say NoDaddy

NoDaddy.com was created by Fyodor three days ago. It’s a work in progress that will allow web users to see and add complaints related to the large registrar. So far the only complaint documented on the site is from Fyodor himself and it offers more details than his initial complaint on the seclists news mailing [...]