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  • Filling Up the Break

    I’ll be focusing on Plank until the holidays, but I’m already finding myself filling up my wish list for what I want to tackle during the break. Family first, but there’s always a few hours of the day (err, night) to geek it out.

    So far, here’s what I have down. Posting it here will give me a push to get it done. 🙂

    • New features for WPhone: Viper007Bond, Doug and I are in planning stage for a few nice features we’re trying to deck the upcoming 1.5 version with.
    • Setting myself up with an OpenLDAP sandbox for wpDirAuth: when I left McGill, I also left behind the AD install that was providing me with a testbed for my WordPress/LDAP authentication plugin. I don’t mind flying blind with the code, but it’ll help with support.
    • Write an app with Symfony: I have a small toy project I want to get to, and I’m planning on using this PHP5 framework as a RAD environment.
    • And a few floaters that I haven’t quite officially added to the list yet, like upgrading my site’s theme visually and with data portability in mind, etc.

    Bah, with three kids, it’s not like it was going to be a relaxing vacation anyway.
    Might as well just add to the fun. 😉

  • OAuth Gets a Release. OpenID, Not So Much…

    As Sylvain noted before I had a chance to, OAuth 1.0 was released today. OAuth [probably] stands for Open Authentication, since it is an open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. I’ve been eagerly following this one for a while now. Fascinating stuff.

    Now, should I rub it in and mention that, as expected, OpenID 2.0 did not get ratified at the IIW last Monday? Well, it’s on until tomorrow, so there’s still time.

    One common denominator for the two projects these days is the all mighty Google, with the new Blogger In Draft (ie: beta) offering OpenID support, and Chris Messina reporting that the search/ad giant also signed the “OAuth Non-Assertion Covenant and Author’s Contribution License”.

    I can almost taste the mythical open, decentralized social network of tomorrow. Can’t wait.

  • Digg Images and New Categories Launch Tonight

    From Digg the Blog: Images and new categories launch tonight:

    Hey everyone. Believe it or not, the dedicated images section you’ve been waiting for finally goes live later tonight. Lots of changes in this release: New universal taxonomy, new images cawler, sorting and duplicate image detection, etc.

    I know someone who worked hard on this one, and must be happy to see it go out the door. Nervous, but happy.

  • SciVee: Pioneering New Modes of Scientific Dissemination

    From SciVee: Pioneering New Modes of Scientific Dissemination:

    Created for scientists, by scientists, SciVee moves science beyond the printed word and lecture theater taking advantage of the internet as a communication medium where scientists young and old have a place and a voice.

    See also: Video sites let scientists show off experiments.

    Beta starts December 3rd 2007.

  • Fixing HTML

    From Fixing HTML:

    HTML needs fixing. The HTML 4 recommendation was published in 1999. Since then, the web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress since then, due to the cleverness of the web development community and the surprising expressive power of JavaScript, but we are at the limits. HTML is no longer a driver of innovation. It is now a serious impediment.

    I’ve always favoured HTML 5 over XHTML 2.0, but Douglas Crockford does have an interesting point there, though it could unarguably be labeled as a bit drastic at times.

  • The Skinny on the State of OpenID 2.0

    From The Troubles With OpenID 2.0:

    Portland, Oregon’s JanRain, leaders in the OpenID movement, put on a PR push this week to promote what they say is the imminent approval of OpenID 2.0’s final draft. Specifically, they say that they expect the final signatures to be penned on Monday at the upcoming Internet Identity Workshop.

    I’m a big OpenID fan myself, but like the article’s author and as much as I want to see the 2.0 specs ratified, I’m not going to hold my breath for next week. I rarely hoped so much to be wrong on a prediction.

  • Fresh Screenshots of WPhone on iPhone

    From iPhone Screenshot Goodness at WPhone Admin Plugin:

    Thanks to Matt, I can now take iPhone screenshots to my heart’s content. So I’ve updated the set showcased on this site and made a zip archive of 18 screenshots available on the same page.

    The only sad thing about this is the “No Service” at the top-left corner of each screenshot… *sigh*
    Soon, soon enough.

  • WPhone Page on Facebook

    If you happen to be both a WPhone and Facebook user, we invite you to check out the new WPhone Administration Plugin page Doug had the insight to setup today.

  • Meet "Crotchy" and "Sue Me!"

    Gotta love the Vancouver Winter Olympics mascots… Oh they’re cute all right. But leave it to an adult’s mind to see malice where none should be: go the the following pages, mouse-over the character and listen.

    So, it’s not just us, right? Right? Right…

    Gotta capture that Sumi sound. Bound to become the next big meme. ;-p

  • That’s Pretty Swell!

    I guess the least I can do is post a little somethin’ somethin’ from my new toy, with the help of our very own WPhone.

    If I said it once, I said it a thousand times: joy!