“10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye.” (Source: ie6countdown.com)
Do your part to get IE6 to 0%:
Writing Archive
Yeah! Finally… The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown Moving the world off Internet Explorer 6
HTML5 – and why should we all care?
Sweet! Flash enthusiasts might not 100% agree to all contra Flash aspects – but overall, nice job/ summary.
See large version on littlepixr’s Flickr.
(via swissmiss)
Recipe: How-to install Pandoc on OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard)
In case you wonder how-to install Pandoc, the “universal document converter” on OS X Snow Leopard…
… the secret sauce: go for Haskell Platform installer instead of following your standard (assumption!) installation approach using MacPorts.
The steps:
- First install Haskell Platform.
cabal updatecabal install cabal-installcabal install pandoc- Update your ~/.profile file with
export PATH=/Users/[USERNAME]/.cabal/bin:$PATHand read in withsource ~/.profile.
What is Pandoc? Great you asked! ;)
Pandoc can read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write plain text, markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, PDF, RTF, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, groff man pages, and S5 HTML slide shows. PDF output (via LaTeX) is also supported with the included markdown2pdf wrapper script.
– Source and more details: johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc
CouchDB, finally relaxing!!
The other day(s) I found myself relaxing while coding away a pet project (a tiny schemaless personal project, activity and knowledge management web application) leveraging CouchDB and jQuery.
“CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript [...] provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any environment that allows HTTP requests [...] is written in Erlang [...]”
(Source: couchdb.apache.org)
Check out CouchApp in order to write CouchDB applications by using just JavaScript and HTML.
“CouchApp is designed to structure standalone CouchDB application development for maximum application portability. CouchApp is a set of scripts and a jQuery plugin designed to bring clarity and order to the freedom of CouchDB’s document-based approach.”
(Source: CouchApp)
Google did it again: Google Wave Rocks!
This is truly amazingly hot stuff! … and – again – incredibly well engineered!! Honestly, I can’t wait to get my hands on Google Wave!
Actually I should say: Weaving and Surfing Waves! :-)
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.
(Source: Google Wave Preview)
Resources
- Google Wave Preview
- waveprotocol.org – the homepage for the Google Wave Federation Protocol
- Google Wave API
Update: Meanwhile I managed to “play” at least a little bit with the Wave Sandbox – using the 2nd test account of a generous colleague (thx M.!) – while still waiting for my Wave Developer Account request to be processed.
Pretty impressed by the Wave UI but also wondering what the transformation management strategy of Google will look like when Wave hits the average users, as Wave clearly requires quite some rethinking…
Spread the word: browser-update.org (de_DE)
Ich habe gerade das JavaScript von browser-update.org auf SemanticDreamer.com eingebunden.
“Dieser Service bietet eine dezente und unaufdringliche Möglichkeit, Ihre Besucher darüber zu informieren, dass sie zu einem neueren Browser wechseln sollten.
Viele Internetbenutzer verwenden sehr alte und überholte Browser (z.B. den mittlerweile acht Jahre alten Internet Explorer 6) – meist ohne wirklichen Grund. Der Wechsel zu einem neueren Browser bietet für den Benutzer und für Sie als Webdesigner viele Vorteile.“
(Quelle: browser-update.org)
Wie funktioniert es?
Besucher mit veralteten Browsern erhalten diese unaufdringliche Meldung:
… dass ihr Browser nicht aktuell ist und es besser wäre auf eine neuere Version zu updaten.
(Via createordie.de)
Reserved Top Level DNS Names example.{com|net|org}
I totally wasn’t aware that the top level DNS names example.com, example.net and example.org, are reserved for use in documentation and therefore not available for registration (according to RFC 2606).
But there is actually a website published under these domain names:
Once again, what a wealth of information to be found in the W3C specification documents, e.g. the RDF/XML Syntax Specification.
Released my personal linked data space into the wild
I just published my personal URI/ linked data space at http://matthiasgeisler.net/id/me.
The space is built with Paget, an open source PHP framework for building linked data applications by Ian Davis. The framework requires the moriarty library (by Talis) and ARC2 (by semsol / Benjamin Nowack).
As Paget is currently only focussed on publishing data. Updates require touching the RDF resources – in my case static RDF files served by a custom, FileBasedUriSpace.
Lesson Learned: thanks to the great work of Ian and Benjamin a personal contribution to the Semantic Web, by exposing/ sharing personal linked data, is these days already pretty straight forward. And of course fun after all… :-).
Looking forward to integrate and ellaborate this experience into my book!
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