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It is the future now
via Nelson's Weblog by Nelson Minar on April 12, 2008
On my way across the Bay Bridge today we hit some traffic. So I tookout my phone, clicked the "show me a map of where I am now" button, andlooked at the real-time traffic overlay. There was a bit of a delaygetting on the bridge but things after were fine.
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RSS 2.0 guid is broken by default
via Nelson's Weblog by Nelson Minar on April 10, 2008
RSS 2.0 is a bad format. I just helped Andy debug a problem with his linkblog's feed. Google Readerwas sending folks to his own domain rather than directly to the linkdestination. Why? Because RSS 2.0 is stupid.The problem is the guidelement in the feed was being used instead of the linkelement you'd expect. Why? Well, read the spec:There are no rules for the syntax of a guid.Aggregators...
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Vista or XP?
via Nelson's Weblog by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Ashok I love that ending comment.My PCis 3.5 years now. It's been great but it's time to get an upgrade. What'sholding me back is Windows Vista. The horror stories continue and nowwith the Windows 7 talk there's some evidence that Vista may be a deadend and XP -> 7 is the upgrade path.Any advice? Comment hereor email me. I actually like XP once you turn off the Aqua...
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Google Doctype irony
via Nelson's Weblog by Nelson Minar on May 14, 2008
Google was very lucky to hire MarkPilgrim, web standards expert and cranky genius. Congratulationsto him on for the launch of Google Doctype, a websitethat documents fancy HTML, CSS, and DOM tricks that we all use. Thecurrent practice of rich webapps is way beyond the official standardsand it's good to see Google take some leadership in documenting howthings should work.So it's a bit...
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