Archive for the ‘Website’ Category
Monday, March 24th, 2008 507 Views
While doing research for a book data project, I stumbled on an interesting discovery. One movement that has being gaining steam recently among librarians and others involved with book information is FRBR which among other things seeks to link various editions of the same book together. For example, all of ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 449 Views
About four months ago, I decided to try out a new ad optimization service called PubMatic.com. What this service is supposed to do is automatically optimize ads coming from multiple ad networks and display the one that will make the most money. I set it up in the beginning of ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008 611 Views
Installing server side components on shared hosting is always a challenge. In the last few weeks as I have begun to undertake more web based consulting assignments, I have found myself facing the need for source code management as well as project management. At my old startup, we use Subversion ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008 437 Views
Over the weekend, some minor updates were applied to the PublicDomainReprints.org website and service:
1. A separate RSS feed now exists for updates and blog posts. For now, the blog posts are being pulled out of my personal blog but as the service grows that will probably change.
2. An expanded IPR page now lists terms and conditions of originating archives.
3. The processed books page now has links to ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007 1,100 Views
For the past few days I have been trying out a new ad service from PubMatic.com. They automatically rotate ads from different ad networks (in my case Google and Yahoo) and change colors to make ads more appealing. So far, I haven't made any more money than before plus the ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 8,806 Views
Since my move to Wordpress, I have been noticing a lot of funny track back hits going back to my old Movable Type installation. First of all, all of these hits were coming back from different IP addresses and different browsers. Second, they all had the same refer. Something was ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 1,698 Views
After many years of hosting this blog on MovableType, I am switching this blog and hopefully all of my static content to Wordpress. There is simply so much more user support out there for Wordpress than MT.
Expect bugs for the next few days...
UPDATE: The move is complete and seems to have worked. ...
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 549 Views
From the NYT:
The Federal Education Department shared personal information on hundreds of student loan applicants with the Federal Bureau of Investigation across a five-year period that began after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the agencies said yesterday.
Under the program, called Project Strikeback, the Education Department received names from the F.B.I. ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 666 Views
Bloglines, a web based reader, just came up with a proposal to restrict RSS feeds:
http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0
The W3C has a similar (in spirit) proposal to use "?access-control?" instructions in XML standard itself. It restricts access by domain. This idea was also mentioned before by Greg Reinacker.
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Friday, June 30th, 2006 510 Views
This is a test
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 542 Views
One of the things that came up recently at work is a way to resolve IP addresses to hostnames client-side without any server calls. Here are some of the possibilites that I thought off :
o Using Javascript to call Java's java.net.InetAddress class to resolve (only works in Mozilla and Opera, ...
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Friday, June 16th, 2006 464 Views
We are currently working on adding SSL support to my company's flagship product. After I was unable to find an article clearing explaining how to choose an approriate certificate, I am writing down my own thoughts here.
PURPOSE OF SSL
Every developer should be aware that SSL encryption serves two distinct purposes ...
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 1,442 Views
I am currently writing an follow-up full length article for OperaWatch on the Mozilla's RSS icon and its licensing. Unlike the previous OperaWatch story, this story is focused less on the Opera/Mozilla interaction and more on the actual RSS icon, its history, licensing issues and opinions of different communities involved. ...
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Friday, May 26th, 2006 3,620 Views
(Welcome Digg Users and others! You can use this RSS feed and this HTML page to monitor developments with this story.)
Two weeks ago when USA TODAY published their famous story about a database of telephone records maintained by the NSA on all Americans, I decided to test my luck and ...
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Sunday, April 16th, 2006 822 Views
I recently mentioned that Technorati did not reply to my emails. Apparently, that has changed and my Wed email was answered quickly. Everything seems to be working fine with Technorati and tags (unlike before). They are finally being indexed properly!
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 487 Views
I spent some time today doing house keeping on some old projects and following up on some old blog posts:
1. A few months ago when I added tags, I noticed that Technorati did not pick them up. This is till the case but it has gotten much worse - I ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006 725 Views
DESKTOP APPS BUILT LIKE THE WEB
One of the upcoming big technologies in Microsoft's new OS ("Windows Vista") is XAML - an XML language for defining user interfaces. Mozilla also has a similar one called XUL. All of these are trying to accomplish the same thing - make rich applications run ...
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