Bookmarklets

Whilst digging around during the implementation of my FOAF Bookmarklet I came across a number of interesting bookmarklet techniques and examples. I've started documenting some of these in wordtin. See Bookmarklet for an entry point. The Bookmarklet Bootloader is a very interesting technique. I started writing up some notes on the techniques for using bookmarklets … Continue reading Bookmarklets →

FOAF Autodiscovery Bookmarklet

There are a few web applications available for displaying FOAF files in a human-friendly format. For example there's FOAF Web View, FOAFnaut, and FOAF Explorer. A number of folk have also started using FOAF autodiscovery to LINK to their own FOAF descriptions. This uses the same principle as RSS autodiscovery. I thought that it'd be … Continue reading FOAF Autodiscovery Bookmarklet →

Final Spooky Uploaded

I've just uploaded the final version of Spooky which is a little language for describing project structures and their default contents. Just tinkering really.

Ant Fan

Ant is rapidly becoming my favourite Java and XML processing tool. It features heavily in my next tutorial for IBM developerWorks (working title "Code Generation using XSLT") which describes how to use XSLT as a code generation tool using an Ant based build framework. Basically using Ant + Jalopy takes all the hard work out … Continue reading Ant Fan →

(Not) Creating Apps with Mozilla

Having recently picked up a copy of Creating Applications with Mozilla on one of my occasional hit-and-run attacks on Amazon, I've been tinkering a bit with XUL to see how easy it is to build applications. This is part of some ongoing tinkering I've been doing to look at ways to quickly prototype user interfaces. … Continue reading (Not) Creating Apps with Mozilla →

John Peel and Orson Welles

Slightly random posting this one. I was listening to the excellent John Peel last week, enjoying his usual eclectic mix of tunes, when he chose to play a 7inch recording of Orson Welles in a studio recording a voice-over for peas. Now I'm sure everyone else has already heard it but it was the first … Continue reading John Peel and Orson Welles →