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HTML used to semantically describe what information looks like. HTML is now leaving the styling of information up to Cascading Style Sheets and is becoming more interested in describing what the data is. There are tags to let the browser know what information is a header, paragraph, list, etc. Microformats take the […]

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UPDATE: After an email discussion with Adam Darowski, I revised this post to make it a bit more user-friendly.
I think I might be going about this idea of consolidating your online identity with the OpenID simple registration extension and microformats wrong. I found this microformat library for PHP; It works by by retrieving […]

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This DevHouse I spent working on an idea that has begun to taken shape in the blogosphere. The idea was to merge OpenID and microformats to manage your online identity. OpenID has a registration extension that stores commonly asked personal information such as full name, email address, date of birth, and time zone. […]

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We have all heard the exciting news regarding the official announcement of Apple’s iPhone. If not, check out the stevenote on Apple’s website. I know it sounds cliché, but it is truly a revolutionary product in all sense of the word. This product will change the way we use our mobile […]

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Michael Kaply emailed me today to announce the release of Operator 0.6. Here are a list of changes (taken from his site):

Performance Improvements - I’ve done a few things here. The main thing is that I was going through the document’s DOM one time for each microformat. I’ve reduced that to one time for […]

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As previously mentioned I would do a review of the brand new Firefox plugin “Operator” by Michael Kaply. Instead, I felt this article at the Mozilla Labs Blog did a better job than I ever could at describing the functionality of Operator.
There are a few highlights I would still like to cover though. […]

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So I’m pretty sure I’m done with my transition from godaddy to Bluehost. I just need to wait for the DNS changes for nickpeters.net to propagate across the internets. Anyways, GoDaddy was slow, didn’t allow SSH access, and just not cutting it for me in terms of features, thus the switch.
So here’s a […]

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Social xFolk is my first Greasemonkey script that looks for xFolk microformatted bookmarks and adds two buttons for easy bookmarking for del.icio.us and ma.gnolia. It was developed at SuperHappyDevHouse14 and inspired by the greasemonkey script Google hCalendar.
Anyways, get the script here. Be sure to leave any feedback and let me know what you […]

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My last post was not only an announcement of Taxi Driver playing at The Fremont here in SLO, but also an experiment. I generated the HTML for my post with the hCalendar Microformat creator. Once I created my post and viewed it, a greasemonkey script kicked in and I was able to automatically […]

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December 5th 7pm,
9:30pm 2006 —
Taxi Driver— at
Fremont Theater
The Robert DeNiro classic “Taxi Driver” plays at the big Fremont theater. Let me know if you are interested in going.
This
hCalendar event brought to you by the
hCalendar Creator.

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