Monday, October 27th, 2008
Just a quick post about a problem I ran into earlier today. It seems that when using Javascript in Firefox 3 with document.implementation.createDocument to create XML documents (for XmlHttpRequest), the encoding stays as ISO-8859-1 instead of Unicode (UTF-8). What it really should be doing, is making the encoding same as ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Over the weekend I coded up a new BETA search function for PublicDomainReprints.org which uses Google's AJAX Search API. This new search (which can be found here), lets people search for more public domain books and request reprints without leaving the site. The original search is still available on the ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
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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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
For a while I have been working on a hobby project trying to make a meta-search engine that you can use to search multiple search engines by tag. The catch? No server side components. This search engine works client side only from the user's browser by using RSS feeds from ...
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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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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
I recently ran across a nifty project called "TiddlyWiki". One of the things that struct me as interesting features from the programming point of view is the fact that it is able to load and save itself to the user's hard drive using Javascript without any kind of server side ...
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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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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
A very long time ago (about five years) I had the bright idea of starting a new search engine like IMDB but for books. Eventually I purchased the BookChaser.com domain name and have held on to it ever since. At some point a bunch of people like me got together ...
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Friday, May 13th, 2005
This may sound kind of strange but I recently ran across a new web application that is not meant to be used over the web. Confused yet? Well this application is an HTML file with lots of complicated DOM/DHTML/CSS stuff that is meant to be used and saved on your ...
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Monday, January 3rd, 2005
A recent post at TechDigits about tracking UPS packages via RSS and web services got me thinking if the same is possible via Javascript and the XmlHttpRequest object (in IE and Mozilla). Since Google's Gmail and Google Suggest started using that object, it has become more popular. So after some ...
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