Archive for November, 2002

Just poking around on the Blosxom website, and came across a link to Blapp which is a standalone blog manager for Blosxom. It seems like it's rather complete, but a wee bit rough - good enough, though. It also appears as though it will support exporting of the Blog to static HTML, so I... »

I've installed Bloxsom as my weblogging software. Installation went extremely smoothly, and initial customization went pretty well, too I'm going to want to try to build a couple of things: Calendar view Search Standalone blog entry tool Other than that, it seems quite well done, and quite minimalist (good in this case - MT is overkill). The one thing I... »

I was just poking around in the Services menu on MacOSX, and stumbled across the "Summarize" service. I'd seen it before, but never fired it up to see what it did. What you can do is select any text in a Cocoa application, then hit the "Summarize" service. It will launch a mini app that... »

Evan has been horribly miserable for the last week. We started him on some Enfelac formula just to top him up before bed, and that seems to have backfired. He appears to have reacted badly to the formula - no bowel movements for a week, followed by an explosive (less than a second long,... »

I need to be able to present a (potentially interactive) HTML page that is created from an XML file (such as an IMS, DublinCore, METS...). The way I had been doing it was with object modelling - convert the XML file into a set of objects, similar to EOs - relations and all... »

So, I've been working on a way for the repository application to have customized "look and feel" - theming or branding - for various users. Turns out that the best way to do this totally destroys the Model/View/Controller design pattern. I'm basically mashing Model and View together, and using a single Controller for the... »