http://www.cocomment.com/comments/JW Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-25T03:02:25.812+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=977070&comment_id=18473016 (anonymous) I wrote a blogging engine myself too, it's called Chameleon (since it's focused on displaying and adjusting to all kinds of content). Currently development is a bit on hold, mostly because I'm not using my blogging engine myself yet. That, together with the fact that there are so many blogging platforms out there, certainly is the best way to make you doubt if it's really worth to write your own. 2007-08-29T13:28:55.499+02:00 2007-08-29T13:28:55.499+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=904950&comment_id=17532933 help Care to explain why? 2007-07-21T23:20:49.491+02:00 2007-07-21T23:20:49.491+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=742783&comment_id=14424837 help But this could be applied to regular captchas too. I could just display a captcha from another site on mine, and when someone enters the word in the captcha, I could use this to post spam on the site where it originates from. 2007-05-24T16:49:56.854+02:00 2007-05-24T16:49:56.854+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=619284&comment_id=11934516 help Also worth trying out may be Adobe's Flex. I haven't tried using it yet, but viewing the demo's it seems like you can make some very aesthetically pleasing applications with it. It uses Flash, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you could use the applications made with it both stand-alone (offline) and embedded in a website. 2007-04-11T20:52:48.998+02:00 2007-04-11T20:52:48.998+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=619266&comment_id=11934236 help > > Easter Bunny is explicitly tied to religion? > Uh, yeah...Having 'Easter' in the name kinda attaches it to the Christian holiday... Actually, Easter isn't an original Christian holiday. The Jews already knew Pesach, which commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. This is also why Jesus celebrated Easter in the Bible: he was celebrating Pesach. The bunnies and chocolate eggs are in fact pagan rituals. They celebrate fertility and new life. That also explain the eggs and the bunnies (bunnies reproduce quickly). Christianity just "pasted" their holiday for the resurrection of Christ over the original holiday, in a try to transform the original heathen holiday into a Christian holiday. The same happenned to Christmas: what used to be a holiday celebrating "the comeback of the sun" (literally, after Dec 25 days start to get longer again) turned into "the come of the Light" (= Jesus Christ, figuratively). Another example of how Easter evolved over time is the origin of the word for the holiday itself. Pâques (French), Pasen (Dutch), Pasqua (Italian)... are derived from "Pesach", the original Jewish word for Easter, while Easter and Ostern (German) are derived from Eostre, a godess of life and fertility. 2007-04-11T20:47:25.256+02:00 2007-04-11T20:47:25.256+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=619226&comment_id=11932464 help You could use XUL + JavaScript to do this job in Firefox. Firefox can render XUL (with CSS for the mark-up), and it can use JavaScript to connect to the server using an XMLHttpRequest. This is in fact very similar to how Meebo now works, only it'd use XUL instead of HTML. And it'd make them lose 90% of their users (those not using Mozilla). But even more interesting is what other features they could use, only available for XUL apps. For example, in Firefox 3, they could work with the offline mode to store a user's contact list, or their username/password combination, offline. Or, they could pack all XUL, CSS, JavaScript... together and release it as a XULRunner app, to run Meebo offline (making it effectively a normal IM application again). 2007-04-11T20:21:15.220+02:00 2007-04-11T20:21:15.220+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=457538&comment_id=8255005 help I suppose people programming in functional languages don't put their projects on SourceForge. Similarly, there are almost no Ruby projects, probably because of RubyForge. Such a project doesn't exist for, say, PHP, so PHP programmers put their apps on SourceForge. 2007-02-06T16:32:49.978+01:00 2007-02-06T16:32:49.978+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=407426&comment_id=6450954 help I'm not so sure about this. The post says: > If you take a look at the "community" edition download page you will notice that the latest source version is 5.0.33 and the latest compiled Windows binary is 5.0.27. That's true, but that page states: > [...] While every bug fix that has been applied to the Enterprise Server will also be available in the subsequent Community Server release, there will be source-only releases in between full (source and binary) Community builds. So while the latest published community sources will always be available from the Source Downloads Section, the binaries listed on this page may be from a previous release. In any case, full binaries for all our supported operating systems are and will remain conveniently available from this page. So, the latest source version is 5.0.33 and the latest binary (not only for Windows, but for all OSes), is 5.0.27, but, when for example version 5.0.35 comes out, a binary may be created again - if that's a non-bug fix release (as I understandit). 2007-01-16T20:45:09.381+01:00 2007-01-16T20:45:09.381+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=32393&comment_id=50293 JW_00000 Really nice! 2006-04-18T18:21:23.408+02:00 2006-04-18T18:21:23.408+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=32112&comment_id=49864 JW It’s true LIKE “%search%” in the MySQLicious solution will return websearch too, but if you change it to LIKE “% search %” if space separated or LIKE “%,search,%” if comma separated, you don’t have this problem. Furthermore, the Toxi solution enable you to rename and delete tags easily (if you store tags separately for every user, else it may be a bit more complicated), while MySQLicious may have perfomance problems with this. Counting how many times a tag is used, tag suggestion (!), displaying tags for different users, popular tags… is easier too with the last solution. Scuttle is here always in between the other two solutions. It isn’t as slow as MySQLicious, but it’s not as fast as Toxi too. You could say MySQLicious operates from in the bookmarks: it does everything with regard to the bookmarks. Toxi sees the tags as separate entities: you can do things with your bookmarks, but you can also do operations with your tags (CRUD: not only Create, but also Retrieve, Update and Delete). Scuttle is somewhere in between. I think that solution is not really good, you can’t rename and delete tag like in Toxi, and you haven’t got the performance when displaying bookmarks only like in MySQLicious. Personally, I would use Toxi, the last one. Probably it will scale the best, especially when you want the user to be able to search by tag, edit and delete them, and if you want tag suggestion. Because tags are in a separated table, you can approach them as separated objects, independent of the bookmarks. About del.icio.us: probably they use the last solution, although their rename and delete tag functions has been experimental for ages (maybe they use the third solution with tagmap mapping the bookmark_id and tag_id, and this needs a user_id too). However, the tag suggestion doesn’t load slow, so probably they use something like the third solution. 2006-04-17T19:52:53.198+02:00 2006-04-17T19:52:53.198+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=JW&conv=304&comment_id=545 JW I got a key at http://www.ballpark.ch/blog/english/513/cocomment, and I've got to say, it's quite good. You don't need to comment over another interface, and it's really easy. It does something I was already waiting for a long time. However, I think it will maybe be susceptible for spam. I don't know what they'll do about that. Also, their FAQ says that if you forgot to click on the bookmarklet, that you can select the comment and click on it. But doesn't this permit someone to make someone else's comment seem his? 2006-02-05T14:00:06.282+01:00 2006-02-05T14:00:06.282+01:00