Apart from being another appalling neologism, a bookmarklet is a clever and simple way of using Javascript to add macro functionality to your web browser. (more…)
If you browse around the web or newsgroups long enough, especially on computer-related topics, you may soon get the impression that practically everything is “… Considered Harmful”. These two words crop up again and again. If “… Considered Harmful” appears in the subject line of a posting to a newsgroup or mailing list you know you’re in for a one-eyed diatribe. (more…)
wiki. To hurry, hasten; quick, fast, swift.
–Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition
A Wiki Wiki Web is a web site that the users build for themselves.
Even the inventor of Wiki doesn’t quite know how to define it, but it could be described as a system for collaborative web publishing that allows web site visitors to edit and update web pages. Visitors edit the site through their browsers with no need for any special tools or even any knowledge of HTML. It allows people to contribute actively to the information provided by the site - maybe making a correction, adding new content, or venturing a different opinion. (more…)
Seth Godin’s “The Big Red Fez” is to Internet marketing what Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think” is to web usability. They’re both thin books written in a glib style that allows the authors to cover a lot of ground without delving too deep. It would be easy to dismiss both as lightweight if the advice were not generally so sound. (more…)
I’m not sure who Molly Holzschlag and her contributors were targeting in her book “XML, HTML, XHTML Magic”. In the introduction it says that the reader will be “working on the web professionally or … interested in doing so”. If she means that the reader will be a professional web developer, then this book missed the mark. (more…)
So you’ve got Linux running and you’ve tampered with your new Unix toy a bit. What now? Well, what’s the point of having Linux to play with if you can’t go out and muck around with it in the Internet playground? (more…)
Making webpages available offline - How to save websites to your hard disk for later viewing (more…)