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2009

Yes, it'd be nice if everyone kept up to date on the progress of the various W3C working groups. They don't. There are a lot of people who asked what professional markup looked like and were told (right or wrong) that XHTML was the future. So they went ahead and learned XHTML, built their websites and chose watching a DVD or spending time with their kids over watching Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby do battle over Postel's Law. Now all of a sudden they're told XHTML is dead. Some wailing and gnashing of teeth is to be expected. What's needed is less "boy aren't I smarter than them" snideness, and more Hey, here's what's up.

Alan Storm

# 4th July 2009, 12:51 pm / xhtml, html5, mark-pilgrim, sam-ruby, postelslaw, xhtml2, web-standards, w3c, alan-storm

2008

Sunsetting Quirks Mode. Apparently proper standards support in IE (or at least the IE8 renderer) will be triggered by the HTML5 doctype, providing an alternative to those who don’t wish to pollute their markup with an IE-specific meta tag.

# 23rd January 2008, 2:56 pm / browsers, doctypes, html5, ie8, internet-explorer, sam-ruby, xuacompatible

2007

Sam Ruby: Ruby 1.9 Strings—Updated. A follow up to yesterday’s post: Sam’s principle complaints about Ruby 1.9’s character encoding support were down to a bug which has now been fixed.

# 29th December 2007, 7:34 pm / ruby19, sam-ruby, unicode

I definitely like Python 3K's Unicode support better [...] In fact, I think I prefer Ruby 1.8's non-support for Unicode over Ruby 1.9's "support". The problem is one that is all to familiar to Python programmers. You can have a fully unit tested library and have somebody pass you a bad string, and you will fall over.

Sam Ruby

# 28th December 2007, 7:05 pm / ruby, sam-ruby, unicode, python, unittesting, ruby19, rubi18

Email addresses your OpenID via DNS. Sam Ruby has warmed to the idea of making e-mail addresses usable as OpenIDs via a DNS SRV record.

# 30th September 2007, 9:36 pm / dns, email, openid, sam-ruby, srv

calendar.timegm() (via) An “unrelated but handy function” that converts a time.gmtime() in to a corresponding Unix timestamp. I’ve been hand-rolling this one for years; never thought to look in calendar.

# 3rd September 2007, 1:54 am / calendar, datetime, python, sam-ruby, time, timezones, unixtimestamp

Sam Ruby: 2to3. Sam’s report on an attempt to port the Universal Feed Parser to Python 3.0. The 2to3 tool does most of the work, but it seems the unicode changes can be pretty tricky.

# 3rd September 2007, 1:38 am / 2to3, feedparser, python, python3, sam-ruby, unicode

Inline SVG in MSIE. Sam Ruby has a neat proof of concept that converts inline SVG (currently only the path element) to the Silverlight equivalent.

# 4th May 2007, 7:29 pm / sam-ruby, silverlight, svg

OpenID for non-SuperUsers. Sam Ruby explains the key concepts of OpenID that many first-time users tend to miss.

# 7th January 2007, 10:21 pm / openid, sam-ruby

2006

Unobtrusive OpenID. Sam’s implementation passes association data in the URL rather than using sessions. I need to do that here.

# 28th December 2006, 9 pm / openid, sam-ruby

2003

Python power

Sam Ruby’s ultra-simple 3-paned aggregator is a great example of the power of high level scripting languages. Using the wxPython cross-platform GUI toolkit and Mark Pilgrim’s ultra-liberal RSS Parser it provides a full application in a mere 107 lines of (highly readable and maintainable) code.

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You know me

Dave Winer: The “You Know Me” Button. Dave hates posting comments on blogs and then having to check back constantly to see if anyone has replied (I do too). Sam Ruby’s solution is to provide the comments as a separate RSS feed for each of his entries, but Dave wants something more automatic that won’t clog up his aggregator. Dave’s new proposal is intruiging to say the least. When you sign up for an account with a discussion forum you have the option of configuring a link to an “identity server” able to respond to a specific protocol. Once this has been done, the discussion software “pings” your identity server with your username and a message whenever someone responds to one of your posts.

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2002

PythonCard scriptlets

Kevin Altis on scripting applications written in PythonCard:

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Sam Ruby joins up

Sam Ruby has pingback. Ping!