William Gibson’s Neuromancer was a highly imaginative and insightful exploration of the possibilities implicit in the technology. One of the few elements that did not correspond to reality was the idea of the “walled city” – an enclosed area, a playground for freethinkers shut off from the rest of the net. As it’s turned out, [...]
Further to my last post about the current lack of MXNA, I discovered Rojo, an online feed reader that uses the “river of news” format. You can import OPML also. I now have a virtual MXNA, based on the OPML files uploaded by Mike Chambers. It doesn’t have the categorisation or the features, but it [...]
I just got an Apache error trying to post to Wordpress … it wasn’t a huge post, but certainly long enough I didn’t want to type it all over again. I checked the server logs and saw mod_security trumpeting its “Generic SQL injection protection” … I’d included some SQL (well, GQL, but from Apache’s point [...]
I have felt ambivalent about relational databases for some time. On the one hand, they are very good at some things, particularly dealing with large volumes of data very quickly, indexing and the like; on the other, they play by their own rules, and tend to force developers into thinking about their data in terms [...]
I just got an email informing me I’ve been added to MXNA …
I’m pleased and quite surprised, considering that I’ve pulled no punches in critiques of Adobe products. Rest assured that this syndication will not change the honesty of my blogging.
I just installed WampServer2. What a great system!
I just enabled mod_rewrite with a menu. Fantastic.
Of course there are lots of more fiddly things you still need to edit the configuration for … but I’m well impressed with the mod_* menu, even if it is basically just a glorified batch job (modify httpd.conf, startup) with a [...]
My Plogger Badge Widget (for Wordpress) has now found a home in the Wordpress plugins directory.
Steven Fry’s article in the Guardian raises some interesting points:
For what is this much-trumpeted social networking but an escape back into that world of the closed online service of 15 or 20 years ago? Is it part of some deep human instinct that we take an organism as open and wild and free as the [...]
I’m working on a pointless little Facebook app (another one – just what the world needs!) that displays the user’s friends in a similar style to iTunes Cover Flow (inspired by the Blitz Agency app).
Here’s what it looks like so far:
Right now I’m working with the small FacebookUser.pic_square attribute, which is why things look pixelated. [...]
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