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Archive for April, 2008

Stop Using OpenID - Why & How

Personally I think that OpenID is the next best thing since sliced bread. I plan to use it on all my personal projects and advocate it whenever I can. However, when I have to explain OpenID, and if they understood, it then raises a foray of debate - which is fine, but I don't want to [...]

Pronounceablely Random

If you work in a secure(ish) environment then you'll be changing passwords on a regular basis. An old colleague and I came up with a script that would generate a password based on fictional words from a dictionary lookup. Then we/he realised that this could actually be generated on the fly, be completely random and still [...]

on AIR Tour: London

Adobe hit London yesterday with their on AIR tour and I had a seat. I'd been initially interested in AIR last year when I realised it was be a good entry point to developing a desktop app for the Mac (I've dabbled in Objective-C - but I can't get my head around the square brackets!) Overall [...]

AIR TextMate Bundle

Updated: 10-Apr 2008I should really add now that I spotted a couple of mistakes in the bundle which have been fixed. If anyone uses this and spots anything amiss - let me know and I'll sort it. I've just finished attending the AIR tour and during the final (particularly funny) presentation, I completed a TextMate [...]

Wiki to HTML using JavaScript

In building the jQuery API browser, since the source of the API comes from the wiki pages over at docs.jquery.com, I had to handle some wiki parsing and convert it to HTML. However, the more I browsed the API, the more I realised there were aspects of wiki parsing I had missed. So I built a (fairly) [...]