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One of Apple's Chosen!

Now I feel really special. (I guess Dave was wrong about us,Steve. ;-) Apple recently (last week or the week before) sent out invitations to ADC members to participate in an online survey regarding the...

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An Odd Situation, an Email Conundrum

One of Macrobyte's long-time hosting clients wrote to me a couple of weeks ago to say that, after almost five years, they're moving to a new platform. They contracted someone about a year ago to handle...

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Update on the Email Conundrum

The email conundrum gets weirderer and weirderer. First, a little more background. I should have pointed out from the beginning that this contractor (XXX) has been working with the client for awhile....

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Good Work, Shot Down

I did some very cool UI work for a client today, to revamp an old project. Nothing complicated or confusing, just some clever and simple dhtml bling to keep a page clean but still highlight the...

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Mike Black's New Design, Kiwi

I've spent some time over the last week helping Mike Black with questions about various parts of Conversant. He already had a very pretty site, but he's started over from scratch to create not just a...

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Google Wants to *Be* the Web

Google is working on an impressive new calendar system that's going to integrate tightly with Gmail. This really bothers me. I told Greg that Google wants to *be* the web. They're clearly working hard...

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New Designs Needed

All of my web sites (Macrobyte, TruerWords, Free-Conversant, etc.) are in desperate need of new designs and some TLC. First, I need my health back. Then I need to be cloned, twice. Then, finaly, I can...

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Dave Winer is Going Offline

Dave said that he's going to stop publishing Scripting News later this year. (He's mentioned it a couple times since then, too.) Today it occurred to me that his 10th (?) anniversary is coming up on...

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Conversant Patterns Contest is Live!

At long last, the Conversant patterns contest is live! Prizes include a 60 GB video iPod with a $50 iTunes gift certificate, a 30 GB iPod, and one year of Macrobyte's "Domain Hosting" package! This...

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Greg's Conversant-Ruby Scripts

Greg has produced a set of Ruby scripts for editing your Conversant site's templates, javascripts, and stylesheets *locally*. It downloads them all via xml-rpc. You edit them in your local editor, then...

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Client-Side Storage in Web 2.0 Applications

This looks to be a fantastic breakthrough. I think Brian A. will get a kick out of the storage system he describes... it sounds awfully familiar. ;-)I'm proud to announce the immediate availability of...

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Aggregator Updated

Hey, aggregator testers! I've updated it again. Minor stuff, mostly (I'm busy with another project, so I can only do this in my off hours, now), but still pretty good. The notes are on the...

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Some Fun Pan-Mass Challenge Discussions

My post-PMC write up has been more popular this year than in any of the previous years. Many of the people I mention in the story have actually found the site and posted their own comments in the...

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Googlepinging

That gibberish word is there so I can test Google's new "Blog Search Ping" service. If this works correctly, Google will be immediately notified of this update to my site, and so will know to add the...

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Prototype: A Call For Documentation

Prototype (a super-popular DHTML/AJAX library for JavaScript) is finally going to have a full-fledged, dedicated documentation site. Justin Palmer is one of the guys working on it, and has just posted...

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How to Serve Compressed Data with mod_gzip and Apache 1.3 on Mac OS X

Some of us have recently been discussing the size of the Prototype library, my preferred library for DHTML/AJAX). Proponents of some of the other libraries play up their smaller file sizes, and it's...

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Inline-Block, Coming Soon to a Firefox Near You

I'm surprised and happy to see that dbaron (one of the most experienced and "lowest level" (as in plumbing, not importance) Mozilla contributors) is finally working on an implementation of CSS...

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The Hills Are Alive!

Does this aerial photo of some hills in Canada look just like an Indian/Native American listening to an iPod, or is it just my own (and thousands of others, by now) imagination? That's just too cool....

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Events, Listeners, and MSIE: A Big Surprise

I've been doing event-based JavaScripting for approximately as long as there has been such a thing. One of the foundations of this programming is that MSIE puts its event object at window.event, and...

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Firefox? Isn't That a Movie?

One of my clients has recently signed up for an online shopping cart system to work with his catalog (which is based on Conversant). When a customer buys something through this shopping cart system,...

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