Autodiscovery Bookmarklet Generator

The Autodiscovery Bookmarklet Generator will generate Javascript bookmarklet code for autodiscovering metadata linked from an HTML document using the LINK tag. Thought it might be useful for folks wanting to glue various services together. This has had absolutely minimal testing (i.e. I've checked it against FOAF and RSS examples) so let me know if you … Continue reading Autodiscovery Bookmarklet Generator →

Conferences On the Web

Edd Dumbill and Dave Beckett have set up a Chump bot to allow community coverage of WWW2003. This is an excellent idea, and will sure to be packed full of useful and interesting links. However one thing I'd like to see conference organisers do more of is to make the presentations available over the web … Continue reading Conferences On the Web →

The JBoss Documentation Project. Why Doesn’t It Exist?

Has anyone considered starting a collaborative, open source JBoss documentation project? The current JBoss documentation is out of date. Even the "for fee" documentation is lagging behind the current release which is a pretty poor state of affairs anyway, but for a company thats trying to make money out of an open source project it … Continue reading The JBoss Documentation Project. Why Doesn’t It Exist? →

Snapshot

Seeing that it's my birthday and this blog hasn't been updated in a while, I thought I'd do a "snapshot" of my life. Probably of no interest to anyone else, but might be interesting for me to look back on next year. So, in no particular order, I... ...am about to become a father for … Continue reading Snapshot →

Increments

My life in code... int leighsAge=30; int doddsFamilySize=3; //me, debs and Ethan leighsAge++; Calendar octoberSeventh = Calendar.newInstance(); octoberSeventh.clear(); calendar.set(2003, 9, 7); //7th October 2003 if ( Calendar.newInstance().after(octoberSeventh) ) { doddsFamilySize++; } Which is a geeky way to say that today is my birthday, and that my wife and I are expecting another baby in early … Continue reading Increments →

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 →