Christian Nordbakk switched
Christian Nordbakk switched.
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To do it totally different for once, docs go first
I am not done packing the code yet. (That's really a lie, because I have the installers sitting here, but I am considering some last-minute changes for some file names and don't want to create too much confusion once the stuff is out).
However, I have already put a good deal of the user documentation on the "dogfood" site where dasBlog is used to document dasBlog. I plan to put the downloadable files (one MSI...
Eventful week coming up
This week:
- Ingo Rammer will be 24 on Thursday, if I remember right
- I am going to release DasBlog and throw a lot of source code at everyone ;)
- newtelligence will be 3 years old on Friday
- I will be 34 on Friday
- ... and there's one more thing we're waiting to happen on or before Friday
Teaching Word 2003 to be a bit nicer about HTML formatting for e-mail.
I am posting to the blog via e-mail using Outlook 2003 and I “use Microsoft Word to edit e-mail messages”. By default, that often creates a mess, because Word injects massive amounts of junk into the formatting, including their own processing instructions and a bunch of other things I just don’t want. However, you can teach it to be quite a bit more defensive about HTML formatting and then it actually produces very...
RSS and namespaces, Episode 789
Dave Winer suggests an experiment:
Shall we run an experiment is to see if aggregators can work with RSS feeds that have a xmlns attribute at the top level, on the <rss> element?
... and continues with an example:
<rss version="2.0" xmlns="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss">
Now, the RSS spec doesn't say that this is okay, but neither does it say it's...