March, 2006 Archives

Microformats

This actually makes a lot of sense. Very cool stuff WordPress has been supporting through XFN links. Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Link: Microformats.org


Special »♥« Characters

For those of you wondering how I got the heart in the post title “I ♥ Prints“, I have created my own cheat sheet of special characters for this purpose. WordPress supports special characters, but it falls victim of it’s own attempt to fix and correct things. It is possible write special characters in all [...]


Prototype

The unsung hero of web 2.0 has truly been Javascript. Just when it seemed that Javascript’s own weaknesses was starting to make it obsolete, it found new life in the web 2.0 realm through AJAX. Oddly enough it has not been because of a radically new version of Javascrip, it is the same old javascript. [...]


Apple Swag

This is my latest Apple Swag, a nice black t-shirt with grey words that say ‘I visited the Mothership’, courtesy of my friend George Ariola. Previously he was product manager of Adobe GoLive but now is a technologist at Apple. He was in town last week and we met at the jewish deli and L.A. [...]


Tagging iPhoto

Most people I know don’t know that iPhoto can be tagged with keywords. Or if they do they don’t know how to use them. They’re not to blame, iPhoto has always had an awkward implementation of keywords. iPhoto 06 improves on keywords but they are still confusing to most users I know. So here’s a [...]