Yearly Archives: 2005

Bundled Firefox

Here’s a pleasant thought for web developers: one effect of Mozilla’s recent privatization may be deals with computer-makers to bundle Firefox with their systems. Teney Takahashi, an analyst for the Radicati Group, a technology consulting firm in Palo Alto, agreed that creating a private Mozilla company may help with forging partnerships. Cutting deals with personal-computer […]

Clogged with Blogs

So the BBC reports that a new blog is created every second, and the number of blogs has doubled since March to over 14 million. What’s more interesting to me is what’s not happening. Thirteen percent of all blogs that Technorati tracks are updated weekly or more, said the report, and 55% of all new […]

It’s Been a Long Long Time, but Something Brought Them ‘Round

This is good news. For its next generation of space vehicles, NASA has decided to abandon the design principles that went into the aging space shuttle, agency officials and private experts say. Instead, they say, the new vehicles will rearrange the shuttle’s components into a safer, more powerful family of traditional rockets. The plan would […]

WordPress on Previews: No Comments

Why doesn’t WordPress ship with a real comments preview? By “real” I mean doesn’t rely on JavaScript (so that excludes Comment Live Preview, as nice as that is)previews the comments as they will actually look (i.e. with filters applied, etc.) All discussion boards (and other weblog software) include this feature. Why isn’t there at least […]

Plugging Plugin Problems

I just installed the nicely designed Get Recent Comments plugin, but because I’m using WordPress 1.5.1.3 at the moment, I got the following error when trying to set the plugin’s options in the dashboard under Options > Recent Comments: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare kjgrc_subpage_gravatar() in …/wp-content/plugins/get-recent-comments.php on line 23   Apparently I’m not the only […]

JavaScript Email Hiding

If you plainly show an email address on a website, it’s likely to be harvested by a spam spider. To get around that problem, I’ve been using the following JavaScript in the middle of a page: <script type="text/javascript"> <!– This script hides the email address from spiders –>               […]