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I'm back in OPML land for a bit. I missed my outliner! Cory Doctorow explains how the latest HD-DVD key got leaked. It's an amusing story. Current project: Turning my 5 probability monad posts into a paper. Warning: Heavy geeking ahead. Why Google Gears is interesting Google Gears is a new cross-platform, cross-browser plugin which supplies (1) a local persistent web cache, (2) client-side data storage using the excellent SQLite database, and (3) support for JavaScript threads. Using these features, you can write client-side applications that run inside a browser. Unlike the previous generation of desktop web servers, the user doesn't need to install any software--they just visit an ordinary website and click a single button. The most obvious application of Google Gears is adding an offline mode to Gmail. But Google has released the entire framework as open source, and is encouraging other companies to use it. Unfortunately, Gears has some pretty big downsides: You'll have to build your entire application using an AJAX framework or two, and you'll have to synchronize data between the client and the server. There's some really sweet potential here. But to take advantage of it, I'll have to learn another new way to write web applications. Give me a few weeks to wrap up some other projects, and we'll see. :-) How to restore an old OPML site 1. When asked to register, enter your original e-mail address, password and subdomain. If you've forgotten these, you're probably out of luck. 2. Open dotOpml.root, navigate to folderWatcher.getFilesChangedSince, and run it. This should download your old blog posts, blogroll, etc. |
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