Archive for the ‘Website’ Category
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
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
This is a test
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
As my MovableType install been getting creaky around the edges, I am probably going to be switching over to WordPress 2.0. Stay tuned...
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