Tag: Web Development

I’ve fixed my google.com/ig widget to now make it actually work. The web service that I was using went down and I’ve been too lazy to update it. Well, I finally made a change to the PHP code driving the output and it now works again. If you’re interested, more details can be found in my entry the Google Content Directory.

Based on an entry by Paul Stamatiou on how to do this, I decided to make a script to do the same thing. So, revision one my Embedded Flickr HTML Slideshow Script is now online! Feel free to link to it and use it as you wish. If you have any comments, please let me know and leave a comment!

Recently on the IE Blog they announced that they were going to use the same feed icon that Firefox uses. I think that using the icon in IE7 will be great for users and to at least get some consistency between the various browsers. To take it a step further, Matt Brett developed a site for promoting the new icon. I think that it is a great site that can have some influence for others to adopt the icon in their technologies.

The one concern that I have has to do with visibility of what it stands for. Yes, I know what it means, but I am am a syndication whore. But, will my Dad know what it means? It is people like my Dad who, in my opinion, we should be worried about. We should be worrying about those who are new to syndication and have no clue what it is or what it is about. The icon should make it easier for them, not more difficult.

Personally, I don’t think that Real Simple Syndication or Atom is ubiquitous enough yet to go from to . I think that the new icon should be incorporated into how syndication is presented on the web, but not completely replace it. Not yet. Over time, as syndication becomes more ubiquitous, I think that it might be able to be used on it’s own. But, I just don’t think that we’re at the point yet in web syndication to let the icon speak for itself. We still have people like my Dad who don’t know what the current icons mean.

It seems that every Dreamhost newsletter brings some good news. This month was no different:

That’s right! Every week, your plan limits will grow as follows, at
absolutely no charge:

L1: 20MB disk and 1GB bandwidth each week!
L2: 40MB disk and 1.5GB bandwidth each week!
L3: 60MB disk and 2GB bandwidth each week!
L4: 80MB disk and 2.5GB bandwidth each week!

Now we get Ruby on Rails as well!

If I wasn’t making myself clear, DreamHost now supports Ruby on Rails
right out of the box (so no further need to follow the crazy
instructions for doing it yourself like people were posting at
wiki.dreamhost.com), along with FastCGI (which you pretty much need –
unless you prefer Ruby on Snails).

Aww, thanks Dreamhost!

Gah! I just spent the past hour or so trying to find out why I have been getting HTTP 500 errors on the info crew website that I’m working on. Well, it’s because I was using a relative path and not a static path! Add that to the fact that I have a bunch of .htaccess rules that filter content around and no wonder it didn’t work. In any case, it’s working now.

Also, the Flickr API is wicked easy to use.