Yesterday evening I attended the SDForum Web Services SIG meeting held at the Microsoft Campus in Silicon Valley. The meeting topic was “What is RSS?” and featured three speakers presenting to a group of about 70. These are my notes from the meeting with some rough editing. Update 2004-03-23: The original PDFs from the three presenters have been posted. E-mail Newsletters are Dead, Long Live RSS Chris Pirillo – Founder & Head Geek, Lockergnome.com; Chris appeared live via webcast; there were a few glitches, including a 20-second lag time that made feedback from the local site difficult, but it actually…
Just discovered a great description of RSS: RSS Described in Plain English, explaining not only the technical bits behind RSS, but also the benefits of providing an RSS feed. This will be a useful pointer for RSS evangelism in the future. [Via Online Business Networks]
The web is primarily viewed through the computer screen, but sometimes it’s helpful to print longer articles. For anything longer than a few screens, I prefer to read a printed copy. Many sites will provide a “printer-friendly” version of each page through a special link. But, you can do the same thing with cascading stylesheets (CSS), providing both on-screen and printed presentations of each page automatically. This article is a brief explanation of adding support for print stylesheets through CSS. General Steps Assuming your web site is already using CSS, adding support for print is pretty straightforward: Decide where the…
Today I had another occasion to use NT Password which is a bootable Linux-based tool for resetting Windows NT/2000/XP passwords.
Previously I listed some of my concepts for an automatic feed validation service. Today Dave Winer introduced a “scheduled validation” service which is pretty similar. I signed up to give it a test drive, but I'd still like to write my own and make the source available for others.