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Reuters CEO sees “semantic web” in its future

Tim O'Reilly Reuters CEO sees “semantic web” in its future

This is an interesting article on the Semantic Web, and where news feeds appear to be going.

URL Hacking: Generate Charts On-the-Fly with Googles API

Pretty nifty! Continue reading “URL Hacking: Generate Charts On-the-Fly with Googles API”

Can Web 2.0 Evolve Into An Enterprise Technology?

Web 2.0 Impact Chart Growing Pains: Can Web 2.0 Evolve Into An Enterprise Technology? — Web 2.0 — InformationWeek

Wikis, mashups, social networking, and even Second Life can have a place in business, but they need to improve legacy interoperability–and IT needs to overcome its skepticism.

HOWTO Use Your Mac From Anywhere

HOWTO Use Your Mac From Anywhere
This guide demonstrates using SSH tunnels and VNC screen-sharing software to use your Mac from any PC over the Internet. It’s fast, secure, cross-platform, and can be done entirely with open source software.

Authenticate Apache 2 using Mac OS X Open Directory

macosxhints.com – Authenticate Apache 2 using Mac OS X Open Directory

Change this:

cn=user1,dn=example,dn=com

to this:

uid=user1,dn=example,dn=com

so it looks like this:

AuthType Basic AuthName "Testing of LDAP auth" AuthBasicProvider ldap AuthzLDAPAuthoritative on AuthLDAPBindDN uid=testaccount1,cn=users,dc=geo,dc=vuw,dc=ac,dc=nz AuthLDAPBindPassword [plaintext password for user 'testaccount1'] AuthLDAPURL ldap://server1.geo.vuw.ac.nz/dc=geo,dc=vuw,dc=ac,dc=nz require valid-user

Clear as mud? 😉

Yahoo! UI Library: Graded Browser Support

A-Grade Browser Support is probably what we should adopt, as well.

TinyMCE – The WYSIWYG Editor for WordPress

TinyMCE is a powerful WYSIWYG editor control for web browsers such as MSIE or Mozilla that enables the user to edit HTML contents in a more user friendly way. The editor control is very flexible and it’s built for integration purposes (usage within systems like Intranets, CMS, and LMS, for example).

TinyMCE:Installation – Moxiecode Documentation Wiki

This is the Text Editor available for WordPress posting (Visual Edit mode). Pretty neat. Perhaps we’ll add a few items…

Here’re some more interesting TinyMCE links:

Perhaps, if I can ever find some time, I’ll be able to play around with this stuff.

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