By default, WordPress displays apostrophes and double quotation marks as smart quotes. This causes major problems for displaying programming code. A search for a way to turn off the smart quoting led to a number of possible solutions: brokenclay.org/journal :: Smart quote fix phpied.com » Blog Archive » Smart quotes in WP I settled on […]
By the end of this week, I plan to post a draft of Chapter 1 ("Learning from a Study of Specific Mashups") for public comment. I'm a bit scared to do so since I see so many flaws in what I've written so far — and am wary of having even more pointed out by […]
For a long time, the Firebug extension would not display any CSS info. I fixed that problem last week: the bug the fix I'm glad that Flickr has introduced Collections. (See my collections, for instance.) Pieces of the API are coming: Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.collections.getInfo — but it's not all there yet. ( yws-flickr […]
Some nice blossoms in Berkeley…. (I'm demonstrating the blogging of multiple Flickr photos with Flock with this post)
I may have to get in the business of parsing Excel spreadsheets, making use of information I find at OpenOffice.org's Documentation of the Microsoft Excel File Format Excel Versions 2, 3, 4, 5, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003 and sc: Spreadsheet Project — Microsoft Excel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia QEDWiki is ready to try. […]
Although I'm writing my mashup book in Microsoft Word, I'd like to publish it in a variety of forms, including HTML, various varieties of XML, PDF, wiki-markup. There are various ways to extract content out of my Word documents, including Word macros, external scripts using the COM interface, or saving the Word 2003 documents as […]
I took a close look at The Internet book : everything you need to know about computer networking and how the internet works earlier in the week. To make my mashup book as accessible as possible, I've been looking for how others cover background information on the internet and the Web. Comer's book focuses on […]
Is there enough mashup-related activity at the Web 2.0 Expo 2007, April 15-18, 2007, San Francisco, California to justify the expense and time to attend? Haas School News Release is an interesting article on how people buy and sell user reviews on eBay. No surprise there. REST Web Services, a forthcoming book by Leonard Richardson […]