OpenID12 items tagged “jamesbennett”
James Bennett: Why HTML. Finally, somewhere to point people when they ask why I avoid XHTML that’s a bit more up to date than Hixie’s rant from 2002. 
18th June 2008, 12:27 pm
There are two [Wikipedias]: One is the public-facing reliable-enough-on-average encyclopedia that people read every day, which makes for nice fluff pieces in the media about “these new Web thingamajigs that the kids are building, aren’t they neat?”. The other is the insular behind-the-scenes bureaucracy, which reads like an improvised performance of the collected writings of Clay Shirky.
— James Bennett 
16th June 2008, 8:16 am
Minimal. James Bennett follows Ryan Tomayko’s example and experiments with the minimalist school of blog design. 
15th June 2008, 11:40 am
James B. on Pownce (via) James Bennett has started using Pownce for sort of medium-format blog entries, longer than a tweet but shorter than a blog essay and delivered with a healthy dose of snark. 2nd May 2008, 9:15 pm
Legacy. James Bennett has what I think is the most interesting analysis of the X-UA-Compatible header to date. 23rd January 2008, 2:14 pm
The future of web standards. Nice analysis from James Bennett, who suggests that successful open source projects (Linux, Python, Perl etc) could be used as the model for a more effective standards process, and points out that Ian Hickson is something of a BDFL for the WHAT-WG. 17th December 2007, 1:16 pm
Updates to template_utils. James Bennett’s Django template_utils library now provides tags for consuming external RSS and Atom feeds. Combine with template fragment caching for an instant mashup written just using templates. 10th December 2007, 3:25 pm
Newforms, part 1. James Bennett provides a detailed description of Django’s newforms (not so new now though, they’ve been around for over a year), complete with attractive diagrams. 23rd November 2007, 11:54 pm
Django documentation bookmarklets. James Bennett continues his month-long series of daily Django tutorials with documentation for one of Django’s best kept secrets: application introspection HTTP headers and bookmarklets that make use of them. 8th November 2007, 10:59 am
JavaScript Minifier that doesn’t break code (via) Perl re-implementation of Douglas Crockford’s classic JSMin that doesn’t clobber IE’s conditional comments, by Peter Michaux. 4th June 2007, 5:44 pm
Django snippets. James Bennett’s new site for Django snippets. The source code to the whole site is available. 26th February 2007, 10:08 am
mimeparse.py (via) Parsing mime-types is harder than you might think. 8th January 2007, 6:43 pm
