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June 2009
LESS - Leaner CSS
May 2009
Linked Data Tutorial - NG
a practical guide to publish and consume linked data based on URIs, specified in [RFC3986], and RDFa (see [RDFA-SYNTAX]). It is in a sense an advanced tutorial as it requires some basic understanding regarding URIs, HTML, linked data, and RDFa. Guidelines what to do when are provided with this note.
Understanding the Striped RDF/XML Syntax
This document provides a brief introduction to the underlying structure of the RDF/XML 1.0 graph serialization syntax. The Intended audience is mainly content and tool developers familiar with XML basics, and with the RDF model, who want a minimalistic understanding of RDF's XML syntax, so they can read and write RDF/XML with more confidence.
Getting started with RDFa: Creating a basic FOAF profile
Getting started with RDFa: Creating a basic FOAF profile | webBackplane
Now that the RDFa syntax is a full standard, and organisations like Yahoo! and Google are starting to index the data (see Google announces support for RDFa and Yahoo! into semantic web), it's worth putting more of your own data into your web-pages, by way of RDFa. A simple place to start is to modify your home-page or blog profile so that it includes FOAF information.
Crucial Concepts Behind Advanced Regular Expressions | How-To | Smashing Magazine
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April 2009
Working draft of CSS 3: Template Layout Module - Edward Bilodeau
Aside: Several of the examples in the document are written in what I'm assuming is HTML 5 syntax, which is jarring because of the lack of closing tags.
I can see that, given the scope of the changes coming with CSS 3, I am probably going to have to invest a significant amount of time to CSS 3. I had originally planned on waiting until it was finalized, but I think that spending some time reviewing the current documents will be well worth it. Same goes for HTML 5.
March 2009
Juicer - a CSS and JavaScript packaging tool / Ruby - cjohansen.no
For best performance, CSS and JavaScript should be served up using as few requests and bytes as possible. Juicer is a new command line tool that helps by resolving dependencies, merging and minifying files. It can even check your syntax, add cache busters to and cycle asset hosts on URLs in CSS files and more.
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Projects | URI-Templates
URI Templates are strings that contain embedded variables that are transformed into URIs after embedded variables are substituted. This specification defines the structure and syntax of URI Templates.
URI templates by Joe. Can this be used to describe the routing made by a web app?
February 2009
[erlang-questions] The Beauty of Erlang Syntax
The human being is not rational. The human being rationalizes its irrational choices though.
SyntaxHighlighter - Alex Gorbatchev
Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Bespin
December 2008
system_daemon - Trac
MAMA: Scripting report, part 1: Basic scripting syntax and features - Opera Developer Community
To my knowledge, there has never been an in-depth examination of scripting factors in Web pages. Rene Saarsoo's study of Coding Practices of Web Pages was able to analyze some factors, but a bug in his analysis program prevented deeper investigation.
RDFa as an RDF serialization syntax « Ivan’s private site
Of course, this is a valid question but… isn’t the answer “so what” (no offense to Sergey!)? What I mean is: for most of the RDF data around RDFa is a valid serialization just as RDF/XML or Turtle are. Of course, the main message around RDFa is that it gives you tools to add RDF data to an (X)HTML page. But we should realize that one can look at it in a different way, too: it is a tool to serialize your RDF graph so that it can be displayed in a human readable form easily via a browser.
SourceForge.net: EditArea
November 2008
markItUp! Universal Markup Editor
markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.
markItUp! Universal Markup Editor
markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.
Language (API) Processing 1.0
- Libraries - All libraries must be placed in a folder named "libraries", inside the sketchbook folder. Do not use the main "libraries" directory in the Processing distribution, as it is reserved for the core libraries, and is not visible on Mac OS X.
- XML - The XML library is now included by default, so you won't find it in the Import Library menu anymore. In addition, the XML library since 0135 has been greatly improved, making it compatible with far more documents.
- Processing.app - The Mac OS X release of Processing is now a single .app file, more befitting an OS X application.
- Processing.exe - The Windows release has a new launcher based on launch4j. Unfortunately, some machines have a problem with the new launcher that we haven't been able to track down. If you have trouble, please help us find the problem. PDE files are also now double-clickable on Windows.
- OpenGL - All OpenGL sketches now use 2x full screen anti-aliasing. This means that these sketches are always smooth, and the smooth() and noSmooth() commands are ignored. To return to the behavior found in the beta releases, see the hint() reference.
- P2D and P3D - The P2D renderer has returned (see the size() reference) and smoothing is now enabled for both P2D and P3D. Smoothing support is unfortunately incomplete, however, and sometimes thin lines can be seen inside shapes. This is a very high priority bug to be fixed in a future release.
- Candy and PShape - The Candy SVG library has been merged into the core, which brings along a new loadShape() command and a new PShape object. The special powers of PShape will be rolled out in future releases. For the time being, loadShape() works best with the default renderer (JAVA2D). Complex shapes will often appear jagged or not at all when rendered with P2D, P3D, and OPENGL. We've also added better support for SVG files created with Inkscape.
- PVector - We've added a new class called PVector, which is a simple three-dimensional vector (also known as point or tuple) class. This is useful for storing point data, or operations on 3D points.
- Tools - A new Tools API has been created for developers who want to contribute code that extends the Processing Development Environment in some fashion. Let your creativity flow with fantastical contributions like "Color Selector 2.0", "ROT13 Code Mangler", and "I Am Rich". Visit the developer page on tools for more information. Similar to libraries, tools are installed in a folder of the same name within your sketchbook folder.
- Asynchronouse Images - Big JPEGs and small pipes? We've added a new requestImage() that loads an image in the background so that your sketch doesn't freeze when loading lots of large images over a slow connection.
- Present - Present mode (full screen) is handled differently. When run inside the PDE, only Mac OS X uses exclusive mode with Present. Windows and Linux just do full screen windows. When run outside the PDE, all three simply create an undecorated window the size of the entire screen, and on the Mac, an option is added to the Info.plist file to hide the dock and menubar (since that cannot be done programatically from Java).
- Compiler - We've removed the old Jikes compiler and are now using another. We've also tried hard to improve the quality of error messages, though some are still real gems that invoke the complaints of mainframe computers in 1970s films.
- Internationalization - For better internationalization support, we've changed to UTF-8 encoding when loading and saving sketches. Sketches that contain non-ASCII characters and were saved with Processing 0140 and earlier may look strange when opened. Garbled text and odd characters may appear where umlauts, cedillas, and Japanese formerly lived. If this happens, use the "Fix Encoding & Reload" option under the Tools menu. This will reload your sketch using the same method as previous versions of Processing, at which point you can re-save it which will write a proper UTF-8 version.
- Java - Linux and Windows now inlude Java 6 update 10 with the download. We still don't have support for Java 1.5 syntax yet, but we hope that the performance boosts in Java 6 will help applications run well.
Nicolas Cannasse Blog - HSS
Adblock Plus and (a little) more: Managing locales - now the generic way
very generic script. The downside is of course that it can only have a subset of the functionality — namely verifying that the files are valid UTF-8, don’t have a BOM and that the syntax is correct. It also happens to recognize a larger part of the DTD syntax than the Adblock Plus script because it doesn’t need to extract the data out of the DTD files.
October 2008
Yahoo! Query Language documentation - YDN
