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hcalendar

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

hcalendar-intro - Microformats
hCalendar is a method for adding additional mark-up to a page which contains details of one or more events, so that the event(s) can be identified by software, and indexed, searched or downloaded separately from the page itself.

This or a variant (such as a small sitemap style xml file) would work well for businesses to post their opening hours on their website, which could then be easily indexed by search engines.

Popularity: 34% [?]

Speak to a real person on the three helpline

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Phone 333 (pay monthly)

1 1 3 6 2 2

Popularity: 28% [?]

Copying your boot sector / MBR on windows

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

If you want to do the equivalent of a dd on linux for your Master Boot Record (for example, if you have GRUB installed and are going to install windows which will zap the MBR) in windows, the tool MBRWiz is fantastic.

It’s very simple to back up your MBR to a file & restore it later.

Popularity: 24% [?]

Business Rules SMTP Proxy

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Recently sending out emails with the wrong attachments or to the wrong people has come to the forefront of my thinking.

What would be really useful in events like this would be an outgoing SMTP proxy that has a set of business rules that will delay outgoing mails based on user-set criteria until they have been have been reviewed, perhaps by a moderator role.

Examples of rules could include:

  • Recipient domain / email address check
  • Word check (for e.g. profanity)
  • Combination of recipient domains / email addresses check (ie - you don’t want to accidentally send the same email to multiple clients)
  • Attachment check: file size / type
  • Checking for inclusion of username / passwords in unencrypted email

ProxSMTP could perhaps be a basis for this - it works with my favourite MTA (Postfix). If only I had time to code it. You could call it a BlueCoat for email.

Popularity: 30% [?]

Perl jobs spam

Monday, June 16th, 2008

James-

You should know ahead of time that this is email is as personal as possible considering how many are receiving it. So if you hate these things, just delete it and rest assured you’ll never receive another one like this. I’m just trying to cast as wide a net as possible to find the best Perl developers out there. Lucky for you that you’re a CPAN devotee…

So please don’t hate me because I’m a recruiter – all I ask is that you accept me because I do so for a great, growing company whose codebase is object-oriented Perl and where CPAN modules are heavily incorporated into our development efforts. And if it helps, I’m also an engineer who has coded in start-ups, turnarounds, and high growth companies - sure it was LISP, Prolog, and C but who’s keeping score?

I work for GridApp Systems and we’re looking to hire several great Perl developers – senior and mid-level – to work for us in New York City in an exceptionally developer friendly environment where code is king. You may be interested or you may know of someone who is. We’ll even relocate from most anywhere and sponsor too.

Look if nothing else, we should stay in touch – you never know what the future holds in Perl, right?

That’s about it. If you can help me, great; if you want me to go away, never to email you again, just let me know. Either way, remember the sage words of Larry Wall who said,

“What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?”

GridApp believes…

Steve Levy

Looks like this bloke has been hitting multiple mailing lists, CPAN, etc - no thanks.

Popularity: 32% [?]

Greasemonkey 0.8 Release Candidate

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Greasemonkey 0.8 Release Candidate

Works on Firefox 3…

Popularity: 35% [?]

Donald Knuth on multicore

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Thinking about multicore and software | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com

Interesting excerpts from an interview with Donald Knuth on multicore architecture.

Popularity: 29% [?]

Nice News Item on Nokia’s site

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Describing their music download store as DRM Crap!

Nokia DRM Crap

Popularity: 29% [?]

SwitchProxy for Firefox 3

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

XPI Addon download & details added to the bottom of my “SwitchProxy for Firefox 2” post… it seems only yesterday…

Popularity: 55% [?]

How to have Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 running at the same time | redemption in a blog

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

How to have Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 running at the same time

Quite simply set up a different profile that FireFox 3 always runs under (for example, my FF3 windows shortcut target is

“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5\firefox.exe” -P FireFox3
(FireFox3 being a profile I set up).

I think the betas of Firefox 3 are now stable enough for everyday use, and it certainly feels snappier to me. Also major plugins (adblock plus, noscript) support it.

Popularity: 46% [?]


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