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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Dipity – Its worth remembering

Its worth remembering – sites which were hits, many visited it – all such sites are shown here in a visual timeline. I personally like to get some help remembering things, one of the main reasons for blogging is exactly that: when I thing something is – it! So that I will remember it (oh and you might find it interesting also!).

I think that I own the people who made me find this “dipty” site, the line of persons and sites are like this:

  1. My wife – she accepted an invitation to visit
  2. Her collegue Pia and her husbond
  3. Hans – who mentioned
  4. The danish TV show “Spam“, who had a story about Dipity

There you are – the information path leading me to find Dipty! :-) Oh, I almost forgot – You should also remember to visit ffffound.com/

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It’s a dream: Serverside javascript!

I know that nothing is perfect, but today I saw a server running javascript! It is based on the mozilla javascript engine which means that it understands the same level of javascript that Firefox does!

So is this a dream?
Well to start with I love javascript! It’s so flexible and fits very well for the internet. With the many very APIs appearing nowadays – like , prototype and other – you would be able to use the same terms, methodes and datastructures on both client- as well as server-side! Google and Yahoo are building serious javascript free APIs which you simply use on the server rather than on the browser.

I just watched a video showing an example where a RSS feed is fetched as XML, transformed using XSLT and added to the DOM using various javascript APIs. Server side that is!

You would be able to manipulate the DOM using javascript syntax and APIs before the page is returned to the browser.

But how do I get it?
Well you can get locally by downloading Aptana framework, which is also very powerfull in general – even if you do not want to play around with serverside javascript.

It is mentioned that it has its own JAXER server, not sure if it means that you will be able to host it only some places… time will show! For now I keep on dreaming!

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Ubiquity – a word You will be hearing again!

I am impressed! Ubiquity might be difficult to remember or even pronance but it makes FireFox a very strong tool for the web!! It is difficult to describe exactly what it is – well the techinical facts is that it is an add-on to Firefox which will convert Firefox into something much more userfriendly than a browser!

Imaging that you browse the net – you come across "something". I might be an , a restaurent, a piece of graphics or perhaps a word you do not understand. Here is my go at comparing your acts before and after Ubiquity:

Situation BEFORE AFTER
You see an article which has a bit you wish to share with a friend You copy the contents, open your e-mail, find the contact e-mail, paste the contents and e-mail it. You mark the content, press [Ctrl]+[Space] (open Ubiquity), enter "email" and contact name or e-mail address, press enter

The difference is that you will have to do some trivial things in the "before" scenaria. Open the e-mail client, copy/paste the selection to/from clipboard, find the contact. Using Ubiquity you simply enter this command: "email myfriend" and press [Enter].

Ubiquity is born with many standard "tools" (or acts) – like Google maps, weather, e-mail and wikipidia. It is (should be) simpel to extend the "tools" your self – and I guess many other will be around as this brilliant idea spreads!

Perhaps even Microsoft will support it? :-)

Read more – and try it ! here

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Snippets: Dynamicweb snippets

If your are working a lot with the CMS system you will find these snippets very handy! I have allready been published a very useful “eval window” , where you can see a description about how to “install” it in your browser. Below are five other snippets targeted for users of Dynamicweb CMS.

I have choosen to set the snippet in as a link on each word, so what you need to do to get the actual code is to right click and choose “Copy destination”. On your clipboard the snippet will be then to use as I wrote in the “eval window“.

Here goes:

  • Log off – Use this to logoff a an extranet user
  • Admin – Open the ADMIN () of the current Dynamicweb CMS site
  • Empty cart – Well… Empty the shopping cart
  • Save Template XML – Will add “savetemplateXML=true” to the current page, which will make Dynamicweb CMS save the XML in the respective template folders
  • GetImage – Will open the “Get Image” URL generator of your Dynamicweb CMS – very usefull!

Oh, and You ofcause can right click the link (snippet) and choose “Add to favourites…” :-)

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