Posted August 29th, 2005 /
Code
AudioScrobbler (now Last.fm) is a very cool site that helps you discover new music and share what you’re listening to with others. You just download a plugin for your music player, and it reports what you’re playing to the site. The site then displays what you’ve listened to recently, as well as what you listen to most. It also gives you musical neighbors—others that share similar music tastes. You can set up connections to friends, and join groups, where you can see what the group as a… Read more »
Posted June 07th, 2005 /
Code
Often times “404 not found” pages aren’t particularly helpful. They tell you that the page is gone, and not much else. The more tech-saavy know a great trick to help find what you’re after: just lop off a hunk of the URL. Perhaps you had a bookmark saved at this address, for example:
http://tenseforms.com/tundra/winter.html
You open your bookmark, and sadly, the page no longer exists. But you know the content may still be there… Perhaps it has simply moved to another page. You can do… Read more »
Posted April 27th, 2005 /
Design,
Code
With the recent design of Holly Tickner’s Tiny Forest, one of the biggest changes was largely unseen. Gone was the bloated, Dreamweaver-generated code, and in its place was streamlined, valid XHTML markup, using CSS for all of the layout (all hand-coded in BBEdit). It’s fairly common knowledge that good markup can improve search engine rankings, but this was a great opportunity to see it first hand.
Just before the new site went live, I checked the rankings of a few different Google… Read more »
Posted March 29th, 2005 /
Design,
Code
RSS is a very cool technology that’s quickly gaining in popularity. It’s like having your own newspaper, with only the news you care about. And instead of having to wait for the next day, it’s updated continually. While it’s quite popular already, it’s a long way from mainstream use.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks is that it’s rarely presented well. Many web sites have an “RSS”, “XML”, or “Syndicate this site” link. Most of the time if you click that link you’re presented with the feed… Read more »
Posted March 01st, 2005 /
Code
I often find myself wondering how my sites will work on dial-up connections, and I’ve long been looking for a good way to simulate it in OS X. I recently came across the ip_relay Perl script by Gavin Stewart. It isn’t quite perfect; it seems to have problems with larger files in particular. I was streaming MP3s with it, and it would often cut out for long periods of time, not sending any data at all. Nevertheless it was very helpful, even if it did simulate a far slower connection than I’d… Read more »
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