Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Ajax and Weblogs. I've mentioned Ajax before; this item is a follow-up with a nice example, complete with code. The author described the use of Ajax - a set of Javascripts used to manage interactive web pages - to parse and display XML files on this home page. Nice - nice, and elegant. By Jason Kottke, kottke.org, May 9, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:47:17 PM      Google It!.

OSS Projects Offer Bounties For Features [Slashdot:] 2:07:15 PM      Google It!.

Wired Amends Stories With Fabricated Quotes [Slashdot:] 1:32:28 PM      Google It!.

Greasemonkeying around. I've tacked on another minute of video to the simple single sign-on screencast, in order to demonstrate Johannes la Poutré's Password Composer. I struggled a bit with how to present this to a general audience. Clearly Firefox is required, but Greasemonkey is optional: one version requires it, another runs as a standalone Firefox extension. In the end I decided to show the Greasemonkey version but omit the installation of Greasemonkey itself, just to keep things moving along. ... [Jon's Radio] 11:23:04 AM      Google It!.

FireFox Search Your Catalog. Since the comments feed for my blog is totally separate from the main RSS feeds, I wanted to highlight the great resources that came out of the Native Firefox Search of Your Library's Catalog! post. This is a relatively easy feature to offer your patrons, especially if you’re a Sirsi or Innovative library. Have a look at Kenton Good’s Firefox Search Plugins, which search the library’s catalog, the library’s web site, and a basic SFX title search. Science Library Pad has a whole category devoted to Firefox Extensions that highlights library tools. Corey Seeman’s Firefox Plugin for Innovative Libraries (thanks, Michael!), which will probably be the basis for what I hope will be a SWAN Firefox search plugin! Mark Swenson wrote up great instructions for How to Create a Firefox Search Plugin for SIRSI. All of which led to my home – Sirsi – library creating a Search Extension for their catalog (look under the search box on the lefthand side). Yay, Brian (who was actually already working on this)! John Wohlers also did some nice work on this, but I’m waiting to point to something else very cool he has done. Tease. :-P [The Shifted Librarian] 9:03:59 AM      Google It!.

The New Power Generation. Mainstream America is starting to pull the plug and rely on homegrown solar energy. Call it the dawn of the 'hygrid' age. By Daniel H. Pink from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 9:01:59 AM      Google It!.

Gameboy Emulator Released for PSP [Slashdot:] 8:56:54 AM      Google It!.