September 2003

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1. 675
   Having spent the day doing some maintenance work on one of our legacy sites, I can hand on heart say that old sites using tables for layout are far, far, far harder to edit than cu...
   Published on 01 September in general
2. 676
   As I may have mentioned before, we have really bad documentation and specification practices at work (i.e. none). That’s why we love tools like the great E...
   Published on 02 September in general
3. 677
   It’s not quite my thing, but seeing as I posted a bit about XUL recently I thought this might be interesting: Zul...
   Published on 02 September in general
4. 678
   Note to self: RDF: back-end architecture in Mozilla and The XSLT/J...
   Published on 02 September in general
5. 679
   Following up on those notes to myself, there’s a decent RDF and Mozilla tutorial I just found. It’s pretty ancient, and th...
   Published on 02 September in general
6. 680
   The Metro is a free UK newspaper aimed at commuters (it’s available from train, bus and tube stations). It has a massive daily readership (
   Published on 03 September in general
7. 681
   The most unintentionally funny post I’ve read on a blog for a long long time: Generating a nonce is easy I’m sure cryptologists are s...
   Published on 05 September in general
8. 682
   Christof asked (via JabRSS growth by
   Published on 07 September in general
9. 683
   Firebird I finally decided to give Firebird a proper go at the end of last week, and it was doing very very well, having become my default browser by virtue of being better a...
   Published on 11 September in general
10. 684
    Two computers. One monitor. The tale of a boy and his operating system, separated by fate. My machine, four and a half years old. Creaking. My girlfriend’s machine, a year old, blister...
    Published on 12 September in general
11. 685
    Danger Will Robinson! I have completely broken my support for loading remote PHP files in all my browsers, all, I suspect, a result of reconfiguring my default application handli...
    Published on 12 September in general
12. 686
    Inspired by Jim’s FOAF updates I’ve taken a five-second look at my own FOAF file an...
    Published on 14 September in general
13. 687
    Iiiinteresting. In my last post on Friday, I inserted <del> tags around the first two paragraphs, because they were wrong. This should a) make the text italic and b) draw a line ...
    Published on 15 September in general
14. 688
    Refresh your browser Because I’m moving to a new design, and it probably doesn’t work properly yet. Most of the links are probably broken too. ...
    Published on 15 September in general
15. 689
    Must. Remember: Rosco – a non-judgemental RDF schema and document checker (thanks to Jim for the...
    Published on 15 September in general
16. 690
    I was wrong when I said Firebird was now providing all my needs. This is because Firebird doesn’t cu...
    Published on 16 September in general
17. 691
    An Introduction to the hard Semantic Web… …in simple Haiku
    Published on 16 September in general
18. 692
    Some time ago, back in 2002, someone at mozilla.org generated the CSS1 spec with Mozi...
    Published on 16 September in general
19. 693
    All new contact system. Very high tech. Honest. Works via Jabber. Look at the form source to see how you can use it on your own site. If you want.
    Published on 16 September in general
20. 694
    And now rome for a week!
    Published on 16 September in general
21. Rome - This is not a tourist guide
    The adventure ends Apologies to anyone who has no interest in Rome whatsoever, because that’s probably all the next four or so posts are going to be about. I promise I’ll try and make techno...
    Published on 27 September in general
22. 696
    Almost all the sites we saw in Rome that were filled with statues and other objects only had descriptions for a limited few. To me these are screaming out for investment in a mobile technology, som...
    Published on 27 September in general
23. 697
    Just before I went on holiday I finally managed to complete The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on my Gamecube. I’m completely addicted to LoZ games, and have been since I played the original on my...
    Published on 27 September in general
24. 698
    Of course when I first started looking at manipulating RDF with Mozilla for some reason it didn’t ev...
    Published on 29 September in general
25. 699
    Comments have now been re-enabled. It’s a third-party system so a bit slow. My apologies, I’m “working on it”.
    Published on 29 September in general
26. 700
    I seem to have been overwhelmed by people saying “display: table-cell doesn’t work in IE” recently. Once on IBeBloggin and twice at w...
    Published on 29 September in general
27. 701
    Yesterday’s link list on thauvin.net includes a link to the SWT Designer. When I was tr...
    Published on 30 September in general