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Dave on Snipsnap and the ‘html’ macro
One of the add on features contributed by the community to the snipsnap project was an {html} macro. Here are my notes, Read More
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Dave on Decorating Blockquotes
Now I have one of those pretty quote decorations in my quotes on this wiki. This post is deprecated. It should have been marked so when I adopted Nulis. You can read what I said in 2013 by using the Read More button. … Read More
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Dave on My 1st Apple Mac
I bought a Mac Book Pro last week. 10th August 2009. I’ll probably write up some notes about how I get it to do a job of work. The first set of notes I need were the HTML editor. despite having already installed Open Office, which has an editor. This page is demised. Read More
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Dave on HTML Slide Shows
I wanted to create a scrolling picture show as a banner on all the pages in a micro site. Many sites use this for their front page decoration. I didn’t want to use animated gif because of the age of the technology.It’s obviously becoming easier. Basic Tips below, shows how to use the HTML META tag with http-equiv=”refresh”attribute set. Read More
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Dave on Planet (Venus) Themes (CSS)
I use Sam Ruby’s Planet Venus. The package comes with two themes, I have always rather liked the ‘Fancy’ theme. This article was finished in May 2011, and talks about the css required to amend a planet output page in HTML/CSS. It was written for my planet G3 feed which was a G3 RSS repeater. It may just be a useful source for those who wish to create new themes. (I shall be doing this in March/April 2015 as I develop the refresh of davelevy.info.) Read More
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Dave on Implementing an XML feed viewer in HTML
Viewing an XML feed via an HTML browser
I decided to have another go as I was looking to consume some planet feeds on a static web page. I found Display Your Feed on a Static HTML Page Using FeedBurner’s BuzzBoost using Google and this points at Feedburner’s Buzzboost, which is part of their feed publicity toolset. Read More
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Dave on Triptrop
Travelling in NYC
See http://www.triptropnyc.com/
They say “extraordinarily pretty subway maps from anywhere to everywhere in new york city”.
The author documents his technology. I wonder how hard it’d be to build a house price database
The author says
As for the programming bits, it was a rag-tag team of scripts consisting of Ruby, Python (NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib), PHP, and ImageMagick all popped onto a couple hundred EC2 instances, running computations on a few gigs of MySQL tables. Distances and image overlays were precomputed for about 128k points in NYC and then moved over to S3 for safekeeping. Web stuff is all Sinatra and (of course) Google Maps. Datawise, station-to-station commute time is from the Metropolitan Transit Authority, and walking calculations are via Manhattan distance at 3mph.
Links
Keywords: Visualisation, Geography, NYC, travel, HTML, Technology
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Dave on Optimising HTML for Mobile Devices
Of course, because I am using wordpress, I have access to the wptouch plugin, which now looks great when used with ‘featured pictures’. Read More
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Dave on Extending Snipsnap (superceded)
This article, which was originally about how to extend snipsnap & was copied across from the snipsnap bliki on 20th June 2013, I gave up on Snipsnap later in the year, and the project has been abandoned by its authors. This content is thus pretty much superseded and the title but not the link has changed to reflect this.. There has been some minimal reformatting undertaken. There are two idioms used which are snipsnap specific; they have been left as originally published and are now a nonsense. Other things will read oddly as I did not pursue my plans. Embedding Disqus broke the backup utility, or more accurately broke the restore. Read More
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Dave on RSS Auto Discovery
I need to do this for the various RSS feeds I create.
How?
Isn’t google wonderful? See Peter Freitag’s article on his blog. Peter refers to browsers displaying the RSS feed address behind a button, this went out of fashion
Roller
Dave Johnson writes about it at this article on his blog
and Matt Montgomery of sun pointed me at this macro for Roller
#showAutodiscoveryLinks($model.weblog)
Meta
I copied this across on 18th July 2013, it’s been a long time since I looked at this, and the disappearance from the browser url text box is an annoyance, wonder if user styles could compensate. Wonder why it went away.
Example
The blog documents the RSS autodiscovery LINK meta tag and I repeat it here.
? <link title="wiki.davelevy.info » Feed" href="https://davelevy.info/wiki/feed/"
rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" />
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Dave on Small screen HTML runes
Optimising HTML for small screens
I have been interested in optimising HTML for small screens and/or using CSS as the vehicle. This has been driven by my personal publication properties and started at Sun with the then Sun Blog. I marked it as deprecated in 2020. Read More
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Dave on Share This
To be continued
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=ba31e40c-9472-4900-9d84-7c77ffa1c9a8&type=website">
</script>
From the blog article dated 8 Sep 2009… also repeated on Developing Snipsnap
Also see my Add This page. This was the name in the bliki, but I used both share and add this in the side bar.