Over the weekend, I’ve made a few refinements to my perl script for grabbing my blog index from del.icio.us. It now writes directly to the file on my webserver rather than relying on a redirection of standard output, which consequently … Continue reading →

Del.icio.us have been doing some planned maintenance this morning which has revealed a glitch in my blog index script. At the moment, it polls the del.icio.us server for my most recent entries and then returns them to “standard output”. If … Continue reading →

If you’ve looked at my website recently, you may have noticed the new blog index down the right hand side of the “home” section. This is designed to give a view of all my blog entries and allows further filtering … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to report that my earlier lamentations about the demise of the Open Clipart Library seem to have been premature and it now seems to be back to life and bursting with even more graphics than before. Tags: clipart, … Continue reading →

About three weeks ago, I published about the Open Clipart Library. Don’t bother following that link though as it seems to have disappeared. That’s “link rot” for you, one of the downsides of the mutable, dynamic, ever-changing web. I’ll have … Continue reading →

I’ve recently been exploring the concept of “social bookmarking”. I have been using the del.icio.us service and I was posting about that a few days ago. I’ve now got over 170 items marked for future reference anywhere I can log … Continue reading →

A good example of a “Web 2.0” site is del.icio.us. It’s a place you can bookmark all your favourite sites online, so you can can access them anywhere you log on. However, it actually provides much more than that. Central … Continue reading →

Wednesday’s future of web apps conference was not only intellectually stimulating but also one big photo opportunity for me (and, to be fair, all the other attendees). Flickr is now up to almost 500 photos from the day tagged with … Continue reading →

Yesterday, the Lewisham Hospital webteam took a trip up to a one-day conference entitled The Future of Web Apps. Hats off to Carson Workshops for a well-organised and very stimulating day. There was lots of material from a range of … Continue reading →