Archive for August, 2003
August 12, 2003
Faceted Classification with MovableType
Tanya has posted a rather ingenious solution for creating a faceted classification system for posts in MovableType. This gets around the built-in functionality of MT that only allows one level of categories.
I love this closing line from her entry:
This is additional evidence to back up my observation that most problems in life can be solved with the creative use of regular expressions.
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August 11, 2003
Death of the Marketing E-mail Signature
I’m having more issues with important e-mail getting caught in our corporate spam filter. In almost all cases they are messages from vendors that contain a signature block with a marketing message of some sort. I think these types of messages are doomed from now on. Imperfect spam filtering is a fact of life for the time being. Due to that, people will have to learn how to craft their messages in a way that does not trigger them if they want to communicate via e-mail. A good start is to pull those marketing messages from your signature.
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August 8, 2003
Zeldman on Designing with Web Standards
Jeffrey Zeldman’s presentation on Designing With Web Standards has been posted to the web. I’m in the process of reading his book with the same name and find it very inspiring, which is an odd (yet great!) thing to say about a book on xhtml and css design. He lays out very clearly why standards are important, not just from a technological point of view but more so on the costs savings, greater efficiency and increases accessibility that can be achieved by adhering to standards. View the presentation and buy the book!
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August 5, 2003
HR-XML
hr-xml.org — Home of the HR-XML Consortium, Inc. Lots of schemas for use in storing various types of employee data.
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August 5, 2003
Customer Service Kudo
I just bought an ASP.NET control from 360 IMPACT for some work we are doing. Anthony deserves big kudos from his company for the excellent support he gave me as I tried out the demo as well as going the extra mile to configure the license keys for our specific environment. Truly excellent customer service is pretty hard to find these days. Thanks Anthony!
The control should be a nice time saver as we create a bunch of e-mail forms in ASP.NET.
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August 5, 2003
Paying the Standards Piper
Tanya Rabourn (aka Pixelcharmer) posted an entry about dealing with a short-term CSS design decision made to accommodate Netscape 4 back in the day. There really was no way around that kind of a hack back then but everyone will be cleaning up after it for a long time to come.
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