I had the pleasure of listening to (and briefly meeting) Mr. Sammy Haroon, who is an Associate Director at Procter & Gamble. I was looking around to try to find his specific title, but couldn’t find it. I would think “Director of Innovation” might be appropriate, given what I learned about his work [...]

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I had the pleasure of listening to (and briefly meeting) Mr. Sammy Haroon, who is an Associate Director at Procter & Gamble. I was looking around to try to find his specific title, but couldn’t find it. I would think “Director of Innovation” might be appropriate, given what I learned about his work [...]

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I’ve not seen any signs we’re quite there yet, though searching for “ical/ics” and “rss enclosure” does bring up some interesting ideas. In short, what I am hoping to see is something like the following:
When I’m authoring a blog entry, I can add specific event information (date/time/location/etc) which gets added to the RSS feed [...]

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Stories on the use of captchas and new captcha developments have been cropping up lately.  A few of the more clever ideas I’ve seen recently include:
Encoding a captcha image as an HTML table, with each cell representing one pixel (huge file size, but neat trick, if likely easy to break)
Creating animated captchas -  (there’s also [...]

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I was brainstorming with the guys at work the other day and came up with three variations on an original idea, and thought I’d post them here as food for thought.  If I can flesh any of these out, I may develop it/them.
Centralized reviews
A site where people post reviews of things - anything from the [...]

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Yahoo’s latest version of their YUI library is now available.  They are now up to 0.12, and the YUI blog has some more details on the release.  The biggest new ‘goodie’ looks to be tab controls.  I’ll be talking about this release more on an upcoming podcast.
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I’ve put up a basic new project - http://www.watchmyspam.com - as a way to allow people to see all the good spam I get.  I’m using a ‘test’ account right now, but will be switching to a couple dedicated spam catching addresses soon, once we’re out of ‘beta’.  Future plans - RSS feeds and email [...]

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I’m heading off to http://www.phpappalachia.org/ in the morning.  I’m looking forward to meeting with  some of the other attendees there, getting a bit revitalized about web development, PHP and other technologies, and hopefully getting out another episode of my web development podcast.  Apparently, it’s a 6.5 hour drive, but I can’t believe it’s really that [...]

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There was a post today on Techcrunch about a new feed reader from Microsoft called “Microsoft Max”.  Well, to be more precise, it looks like a feed reader was added to an app that was previously just photo/picture sharing - at least, that’s what I read from the TC description.
I may give this a shot [...]

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CETIS-Dan Rehak: "SCORM is not for everyone"

Dan Rehak, one of the  ‘chief architects’ of the SCORM specification, was quoted as saying "SCORM has nothing in it about collaboration. This makes it inappropriate for use in HE and K-12".  This is not news - the quote is almost 4 years old.  However, it still seems that [...]

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