Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Creating your own RSS feeds

Creating you own RSS feed for your site is fairly easy and there's a lot of resources out there however, finding the solution for your own site may be a bit intimidating. Herewith some starting points:
Remember to keep it simple! Enjoy.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Banyan?

Derek Kite put some interesting points in his blog Freedom and Value. I was surprised to find a reference to Banyan in his post:
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The high tech industry has not had any trouble generating source code and ideas. It has had trouble generating cash. Those who have been successful may think it is due to having hidden the code. If they were realistic, they would see that the critical elements have been everything else. All else being equal, Microsoft would still own the market even if their code was open from the beginning. Wordperfect would have disappeared when they couldn't move fast enough to develop a suite for Windows. Banyan would still have disappeared when tcpip made them unnecessary. etc etc. When your code becomes valueless, the fact that it is hidden adds nothing.
Are we talking about Banyan Vines from back then? Wow... that was one good network OS.

Monday, November 06, 2006

WAP or mobile enabled sites

According to Wikipedia:
Wireless Application Protocol or WAP was hyped at the time of its introduction, leading users to expect WAP to have the performance of the Web... In terms of speed, ease of use, appearance, and interoperability, the reality fell far short of expectations.
However, I believe that we still need to see a lot more sites that will include this medium of accessibility to information. Personally I would love to see more sites like the one that I was looking for yesterday, a site where you can do an on-line query to a dictionary or a translation service.

What type of site would you like to access via your mobile? Leave your comments below.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Blogging on blogger via Performancing and Firefox

Using Firefox and the performancing add-on (a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser) it becomes real nice and easy to post to your blog without the need to jump through multiple hoops. Just write your blog entry even while offline, save it as a note, continue writing later and publish it as soon as you're done writing.

See also the Google Developer's Guide on Interacting with Blogger to find out how to configure your performancing account wizard.

Now the only thing that would be nice is if we could have the spell check integration of Firefox 2.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Hello World: What's in the name?

Welcome to my public blog spot.

You ask, why araneina?
  • It's not a common name
  • relationship with spiders (read: web)
I won't make any promises but I will try to be back frequently with interesting info on this spot.