For those interesting in CSS, floating boxes and a whole lotta web fun. Eric Meyer: CSS. css/edge is especially interesting. Testing the limits/bounds of what can be achieved with CSS.
Category: www.nickhodge.com
Legacy posts from the old blogging engine
Favicon, Python
Worked out how to read the raw Apache logs for this site, and found some interesting errors. Oops! Cleaned up some broken links, learnt how to do favicon.ico images for the URL and when adding to history/favourites. Not too hard, really.
Time to learn a new programming language. PERL or Python? I decided on Python.
Fixed
www.nickhodge.com now works. All is good in the world. Learnt waaaaay too much about DNS. Thanks to Hilton (Alan Rosenfeld’s brother) and Max at Hostforweb for their effort and assistance.
RSS implemented on mungenetengine
Thanks for the morning diversion, Chris. The RSS 0.92 Feed feed is now correct.
One of the pleasures of all this travel for Adobe is being able to visit my favourite place in the world – west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. At the beginning of the current roadshow, I took Jane Brady and Tim Cole to Piha and Kare Kare: Tim Cole, Jane Brady and Nick Hodge in New Zealand
SMS Blog Entry
This is a blog posted via SMS and tapped in on a keypad.
This is another email experiment. I’ve converted my code to transport
the data on the server-side code over to SOAP so that the
application is a little more structured. Feels different, doesn’t it?
Moblog Entry
Experimental code. This entry comes from an email message. I’ve added
some special code (and security) to permit addition of entries to
mungenet in a quicker way. There is also a mechanism for sending entries
via mobile phone SMS messages.
RSS
More weekend playing around and learning something new: : this is the link to the RSS feed from this web site.
Old Browsers
Evening fun and nostalgia: Deja Vu displays today’s web sites through the eyes of old browsers. The first browser I installed was NCSA Mosaic on a Mac. What frustrated me most was that forms were not implemented on the Mac, but were for Windows 3.11. If only I had grasped the fuller picture then, I may have become an internet millionaire (and pauper!)
CSS and mungenetengine
30 days to a More Accessible Weblog: Interesting Sunday reading, even if you are not a weblog-person. It details how to create more accessible sites in HTML. Spent some time adding title attributes to the a href's that the mungenetengine generates.
Got my first servlet working with Apache Tomcat. Also downloaded and using Eclipse 2.0 as the IDE. Fun and frolic with web.xml configuration files, jar files and the like.
Coldfusion, SOAP
90% completed a Visual Basic frontend to the mungenetengine. This should make it easier to update and edit some of the content on the site, with resorting to copy and paste. The original interface is a forms/web based thing.
Strange days. Had an email from a Dreamweaver/Coldfusion MX user saying that the Random Neil Finn Lyric Server was the first successful SOAPweb service he could connect to. Nothing like helping the competition!