Markup & Style Meetup

brian on 2008.03.14 at 11:15 am

Had a great time last night at the Markup & Style Society in Boston. Saw many friends and won myself a nice door prize: a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium

I took a handful of crappy iPhone photos at the event, which you are invited to see.

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Interactive Design Cert from BU

brian on 2006.08.30 at 08:32 pm

CDIA’s Interactive Design Certificate Program looks like a great way to learn how to make up some web goodness the right way. (thx, Dan )

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SSE is to RSS as...

brian on 2005.11.21 at 12:13 pm

MS announces today SSE, Simple Sharing Extensions, a way to make RSS two-way communications. It was released under the same Creative Commons license as RSS.

As I am not a developer of this sort, I am not qualified to say it’s a good spec or not, but the promises look… eh-hem, promising. Common, open specs are good all around. I’d love to see it integrated so that it can work with the vCard format for syncing contacts, and the iCal (.ics) format for lightwieght, standards-based calendaring.

I propose that SSE is pronounced “Essex.” (Here’s what Essex is.) This would also help distinguish it vocally from Intel’s SSE. The next letter after the “E” in Extensions is an “x” so it would be a natural. Saying “Ess” gives a nod to the two “S’s” and avoids the trouble-prone option of calling it “sex.” The last thing anyone needs is more “sex” on the internets.

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Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

brian on 2004.04.14 at 01:25 pm

FOLDOC is the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing. I found this today after looking up the word "twain" as in "Ne’er the twain shall meet" which is said to give birth to the term TWAIN, a standard technology which brought together personal computers and scanners. TWAIN is not an acronym, but that did keep popular folklore from making up an extension for it, "Technology Without An Interesting Name."

By the way, "twain" means a lot of things, but "pair" is one of the fitting definitions in this case.

Lastly, FOLDOC is supposed to be found at http://www.foldoc.org but the first time I typed that, it didn't connect. Subsequently, it redirected to the above linked site. Additionally, there are mirrors of the Imperial College (UK) FOLDOC site.

None of this has the least to do with Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Sorry for any confusion.

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