Yesterday, I thought that my installations of WordPress did not allow the use of the class attribute in my span HTML elements. To fix the problem, I followed the trail of references leading from » WordPress Strips Classnames, And How To Fix It MaisonBisson.com. I learned that WordPress uses the kses PHP library to filter […]
Tagged kses, WordpressYesterday, I came across two behaviors of WordPress (v 2.6.3), that I wanted to change: the HTML editor sanitizes code in a post if you use the visual editing mode. WordPress changes regular single and double quotation marks into “smart quotes”, which causes major problems for snippets of code One way to change this behavior […]
Tagged WordpressI’m currently learning how to program Zotero, specifically how to integrate Zotero with other applications. I document my learning experience to make it easier for others to learn what I’ve learned. Note that I’m still learning (I’m far from an expert) — so I think my advice will improve over time. But it decided not […]
Tagged Chickenfoot, ZoteroThis afternoon, I undertook some fall cleanup of my computer’s hard drive, a task but became urgent as I start running out of space. Last night, I ran WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics to figure out what was hogging up the disk space. I was not surprised to learn my photos, videos, and podcasts ( […]
Tagged EXIF, metadata, photos, videoThe talk I gave recently at the Library of Congress on web 2.0 mashups might be of interest to you all. The recording of the talk is available now from the LC site: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4346 I tried not to be to be too technical while working in some technical details on the side for those in […]
Tagged Library of Congress, mashups, webcastProject Bamboo has been on my list of stuff to write about for a while. According to Project Bamboo website: Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: How can we advance arts and […]
Tagged mashups, Project BambooAs I prepare my JCDL 2008 Tutorial (Creating and Enabling Data Mashups), might I make use of Eric Lease Morgan’s XML in libraries: A workshop? Of note is an upcoming workshop aimed at libraries — CARL-IT North: Mashup the Library: An introduction to mashup technology and the art of remixing library and information resources. codepad: […]
Tagged codepad, JCDL, JCDL 2008, workshops, XML in librariesA friend sent me a link to a recent post by Brad Templeton, Data hosting instead of data portability: A data hosting approach has your personal data stored on a server chosen by you. (You might have that server right in your own house, or pay for hosting services.) If you pay, that server’s duty […]
Tagged data hosting, data portabilityIn January, a correspondent, having heard that I was about to publish a book on mashups, wrote me, saying that he would “love to find out more what [I’m] thinking”. Flattered to be asked, I replied. Here I quote an edited version of what I wrote. (I tend to like what I write in email […]
Here’s an update on my current professional activities that I hope will give you, my readers, a sense of where this blog will be heading: My book Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services was published by Apress on February 25, 2008. It’s gotten some good reviews, and I’ve heard from some happy […]
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