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Tuesday, 27th February 2007

Oxford Geek Night 2 call for proposals. The next event is coming up in April. Get your talk proposals in now!

# 12:42 am / cfp, oxford-geek-nights, oxfordgeeks

The No-Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications. Fantastically useful: Dan Webb digs through the API documentation so you don’t have to. The example code is for Rails but the PHP and Python libraries work in much the same way.

# 1:56 am / dan-webb, openid, rails

OpenID and microformats support on XTech site. “A single-sign on solution like OpenID solves an important problem for us, as most people tend to interact with our conference web sites in only one or two time periods each year.”

# 12:46 pm / microformats, openid, xtech

swf Image Replacement. Really neat idea: unobtrusively replace an inline image with a SWF, then apply effects like rotation, rounded corners and drop-shadowns. Shame it suffers from Flash-Of-Unstyled-Content.

# 7:51 pm / flash, fouc, javascript, swfir, unobtrusive

Microformats Bookmarklet. Microformats bookmarklet, targetted at Safari. Uses jQuery CSS selectors for parsing, and generates .vcf vCard files using data: uris.

# 11:43 pm / bookmarklets, datauris, jquery, microformats, safari, vcard