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Although I’ve decided not to continue purchasing NetNewsWire in the future, I still read Brent Simmon’s blog inessential.com. His latest post about how NetNewsWire reads feeds contains the following statement:
It’s important, in this increasingly cross-platform and multiple-gadget world, to be able to get your feeds anywhere, anytime.
Can anyone explain why this is true? [...]
I’ve been working on a PHP-based Web site for my employer — tying together WordPress and Vanilla under an SSO umbrella — and I’m impressed by how awful the PHP language is.
In the past I’ve resisted learning PHP because it always struck me as a toy Web scripting language. And as I’ve delved into it, [...]
As part of my job I use the Microsoft JavaScript language reference all day long (the product I work on embeds the Microsoft Script engine). Up until today, I’ve been able to access this site via FireFox, and although it didn’t work as good as the MSIE version, it worked OK.
Today, when I went to [...]
With all the talk about tagging and folksonomies (I hate that word), I encountered a discussion on Philipp Keller’s site about the database schemas behind tagging systems.
I’ve been thinking a lot about these sorts of things, because I’m still hoping to build a content management system using TurboGears. Understanding how the database is implemented is [...]
Now that I’ve decided to switch to WordPress (yes, Josh, I know you’re so happy), I need to figure out how I’m going to organise the site.
Currently, newburyportion is set up as three separate weblogs using Movable Type: the journal, nerd, and our photography site. This was made necessary by limitations of Movable Type, but [...]