Archived Posts from 2007

December

1. Innovation and Interoperability
   December 19, 2007

   Briefly, my thoughts on the current dustup over the W3C’s CSS Working Group.

2. DNS Made Easy is actually pretty easy
   December 15, 2007

   In a spontaneous burst of productivity, spawned mostly by my complete and utter failure as a sysadmin, I moved my parent’s email account off my server. DNS Made Easy made this a trivial task.

3. Solving strange text wrapping problems in `bash`
   December 12, 2007

   I started having strange text wrapping problems after implementing implementing the beautifully colored bash prompt I discussed on Monday. After fidgeting around a bit, I think I've come up with a solution.

4. Now I have a colourful `bash` prompt
   December 10, 2007

   My jealousy of Adriano’s pretty bash prompt has been assuaged by the construction of my own, prettier and more functional prompt. So there!

5. Presentation: Love the Terminal
   December 09, 2007

   When Murray and Norm solicited talks earlier in the year for the Yahoo! Frontend Summit, they somehow neglected to mention that the presentations would end up being hour-long blocks. :)

November

1. Photoset: @media Ajax
   November 26, 2007

   I still haven’t written anything useful about the @media Ajax conference, but here are some lovely pictures. Should be worth about 64,000 words, right?

2. Just back from London
   November 24, 2007

   I'm back from London after @media Ajax with some security papers for you to read, and not much else yet.

3. Looking forward to @media
   November 17, 2007

   I'm looking forward to @media Ajax

August

1. Goodbye Grandmom
   August 02, 2007

   My grandmom died today.

July

1. Playing with Pownce…
   July 11, 2007

   Pownce looks like a more interesting Twittr.

2. Viva la Y! French News Site!
   July 03, 2007
3. Congrats to the Singapore News Team!
   July 02, 2007

   Singapore launched their News site today using the code we've been working on here in Munich as a base. Nice work!

June

1. Two more News relaunches, up and running…
   June 28, 2007

   We relaunched Yahoo! Nachrichten in Germany and Yahoo! Notizie in Italy today. Finally! :)

2. I am a Super Early Bird. Are you?
   June 25, 2007
3. Escaping Curly Braces in XSLT Attributes
   June 15, 2007

   Curly braces in the attributes of XSLT document’s elements are interpreted as XPATH expressions to be evaluated. This sometimes causes problems…

4. Ice Water for Some…
   June 11, 2007

   Safari’s coming to Windows. Welcome to the party…

5. Short-form Link Blogging
   June 10, 2007

   Blogging is hard for me, mostly because I have an irrational desire to make each of my posts “important” and “interesting”. I'm working out ways to solve that problem for myself…

May

1. Home again, home again…
   May 28, 2007
2. Stupid i18n Mistake.
   May 21, 2007

   Italian (and other languages) are full of single-quotes. Maybe I should escape them…

3. How do I unit test a website?
   May 18, 2007

   Unit testing seems like an unqualified good, I'm just not sure how to apply the concepts to my work.

4. Words Escape Me
   May 16, 2007

   I'm bored, and even though I should be overflowing with things to write about, I'm not.

5. My bookmarks are amazingly out of date.
   May 06, 2007

   I'm removing the bookmarks from this site on a temporary basis. That should drive me insane enough to actually do something about the fact that they haven’t changed since last year.

6. Domain Transfer
   May 05, 2007

   I'm (finally) hopping off GoDaddy and onto Gandi. Hopefully nothing explodes…

7. ¡Es vivo!
   May 03, 2007

   We launched the Yahoo! News site in Spain today. Finally!

8. Stopgap Solution
   May 02, 2007

   I bought a Treo 600 on Ebay. And it’s huge. HUGE! But also very powerful and nice.

April

1. I used to be so pretty.
   April 26, 2007

   A few days ago, my landlord asked me if I was losing hair. sigh

2. Fun Apple Remote Tricks
   April 25, 2007

   Funny, funny coworkers can be stymied by pairing your Apple Remote with your mac.

3. Just the stats
   April 24, 2007

   A List Apart is running a survey to gather demographic info from web professionals; I think it could be a worthwhile enterprise.

4. Amazingly Stupid DataRequestor Bug
   April 16, 2007

   James Moberg pointed out that I'm a complete idiot, and shipped DataRequestor 1.6 with some debug code left in.

5. Installing `libgd` from source on OS X
   April 16, 2007

   libgd is a pain in the ass to install from source. Here’s a step by step guide in case I ever have to do it again.

6. It's live.
   April 03, 2007

   Today, we relaunched Yahoo! News in the UK. Finally.

February

1. DataRequestor - Version 1.6
   February 11, 2007

   After a brief (ha!) hiatus, DataRequestor’s 1.6 release fixes many outstanding bugs. Grab it now!

January

1. Signs of Life
   January 29, 2007

   It’s great to see that SSHKeychain isn’t dead.

2. Benchmarking Your Site with `http_load`
   January 28, 2007

   http_load is a great benchmarking utility that gives you a quick overview of your web server’s performance. This article describes how to install and use it.

3. Subversion 1.4.3
   January 26, 2007
4. Locking Your Mac
   January 18, 2007

   My coworkers love playing pranks on poor, unlocked computers. This is the method I've decided on to quickly and securely walk away from my Mac.

5. Auto-configuring Proxy Settings with a PAC File
   January 16, 2007

   Configuring a browser’s proxy settings manually is inflexible; proxy auto-config (PAC) files are much more flexible.

6. Installing Textpattern 4.0.4 with Markdown
   January 14, 2007

   This site is built on top of the Textpattern engine, running Markdown instead of Textile. Here’s how to make that happen.

7. Setting Up an OpenID Server with phpMyID
   January 12, 2007
8. iWant.
   January 09, 2007

   I want an iPhone. Just like everyone else.

9. Using YUI in Greasemonkey Scripts
   January 03, 2007

   Carlo Zottman has a great article out on Yahoo’s User Interface blog. Nice work!