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Re: HowTo: Super Lightweight Identity

Rob — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:23:36 -0000

Just to play devil's advocate, why not just use digest access authentication server-to-server?

Re: Scripting News: How picture-sharing works today

Rob — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:10:54 -0000

+1. Flickr2Twitter is what I use, and it's documented here: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2...

Re: Scripting News: The Zuckerberg movie is good for Zuckerberg

Rob — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:15:02 -0000

“…it really really raises the profile of Mark Zuckerberg to a national figure.”

Dave, on this occasion you're thinking too small. Do you think people don't use Facebook—or watch movies—outside of the US?

Re: Scripting News: No more Twitter apps

Rob — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:36:24 -0000

What exactly do you mean by “Twitter apps?” Are you just talking about apps whose primary function is to act as a front end to Twitter? Or are you including apps that happen to use the Twitter API as part of a more general function?

Re: Scripting News: File this under products that will exist soon

Rob — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:03 -0000

Well I think they can do that already?

Re: Scripting News: Apple's Flash policy is a breach of Postel's Law

Rob — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:57:21 -0000

> As of 25th July 2010, there is no general-release version of a Flash rendering engine for a mobile platform that meets reasonable standards for robustness and power consumption, though there have been demos, betas, and unauthorized leaks of partially-working alphas.

Funny you should say that, Flash seems to work perfectly well on my Nexus One running Froyo.

Re: Scripting News: File this under products that will exist soon

Rob — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:05:50 -0000

Google Latitude knows where I am right now.

Google Calendar knows where I need to be in the future.

So Google should be able to notify me when I need to leave for my next appointment, right?

Re: Scripting News: Welcome Twitter to the world of multimedia!

Rob — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:44:39 -0000

A picture is worth a thousand words, and a word is six characters on average. So they are effectively increasing the limit to 6,140 chars. :)

Re: Scripting News: Unwanted Google ads on wordpress.com blogs

Rob — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:53:11 -0000

Also the ads don't appear if you are logged into a WordPress.com account. Because of this I didn't realize for a long time that WordPress.com was showing ads on my posts.

Re: listbrowser.org: davewiner's "droid-users" list

Rob — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:06:53 -0000

I take it this is for owners of the Motorola Droid, not other Android phones?

Re: US Cyworld Will No Longer Be Able To Service

Rob — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:33:32 -0000

Today's pretend acorns are tomorrow's pretend mighty oaks.

Re: A+Visual+Way+To+Search+Google+News.+They+Called+It+Flipper.+Now+It%26%23039%3Bs+Google+Fast%26nbsp%3BFlip.

Rob — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:52:24 -0000

Google releasing an iPhone app but no Android app?!

Re: Seedcamp announces teams for the big week

Rob — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:38:42 -0000

"the closed thing Europe has" should be "the closest thing Europe has"?

Also, there should be a competition for most inventive name.

Re: Pandora Gets A Hole In The Head

Rob — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:14:43 -0000

Ah, I miss the days when Pandora was available outside of the U.S.

Re: Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be Your ID.

Rob — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:36:05 -0000

A JID is a Jabber ID: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: How+I+Learned+To+Quit+The+iPhone+And+Love+Google%26nbsp%3BVoice

Rob — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:39:05 -0000

Yowl is fine, but it's a third-party app, not an “official” one.

Re: HowTo: Definition

Rob — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:58:21 -0000

It'd be great to see this take off!

BTW I think there's a typo in the first sentence—<rsscloud:iitem> should be <rsscloud:item>, no?

Re: LocalBunny Gives Businesses Custom Twitter Bots, But It Longs For Old @Replies System

Rob — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:50:00 -0000

Much easier than one of those old-fashioned Web sites.

Re: Location+Now+Built-In+To+Google+Maps+%E2%80%94+In+Chrome+And%26nbsp%3BFirefox

Rob — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:54 -0000

I though Gears was built into Chrome, so not sure how you could have Chrome without Gears.

Re: China+Blocks+Access+To+Twitter%2C+Facebook+After%26nbsp%3BRiots

Rob — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:24:57 -0000

Does it help to solve a problem if you prevent people from talking about it?

Re: Rajeev Motwani, Early Google Advisor And Silicon Valley Luminary, Has Passed Away

Rob — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:23:06 -0000

A “swimming pool accident”: http://blog.computationalco...

Re: tinyarro.ws (Scripting News)

Rob — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:19:57 -0000

If the HTTP header charset doesn't match the HTML <meta> element value, that's a problem with the Web site that you added the URL to, not a problem with the URL itself.

Re: Cubicle Muses - Hong Kong Tech Groups

Rob — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:00:33 -0000

Personally I'm not convinced that “too many groups” is really a problem.

Back when I organized events for the HKJUG our mailing list was our most valuable “asset”—we didn't have a Twitter account, a Facebook group or even a blog, so that was how we communicated with members.

These days, it seems like the cost of promoting an event is rapidly approaching zero, at least if the audience is tech-savvy. If you organize an event you have an excellent chance that the right people will hear about it, regardless of whether it's an “official” event of group X or Y.

My experience is consistent with Steven's in that the #1 problem groups have, at least in HK, is securing appropriate (and conveniently-located) venues. If there's one area where coordination might be helpful it's there.

Re: Checklist for reverse proxies in Apache/Windows (Scripting News)

Rob — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:04 -0000

Regarding the trailing slashes, I think the important thing is consistency between the virtual path and the remote URL—so either both should include the trailing slash, or both should omit it. In other words, either of the following should be fine.

ProxyPass /virtualpath/ http://www.example.org/remo...
ProxyPass /virtualpath http://www.example.org/remo...

Re: Checklist for reverse proxies in Apache/Windows (Scripting News)

Rob — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:16:56 -0000

Nope, looks fine.

At the time I left the original comment I don't think you had yet included the code in the post, so I wasn't sure if you had the ProxyPassReverse.