Archive for April, 2006

Unto.net Wordpress Upgrade
Saturday, April 29th, 2006

I upgraded from Wordpress 1.5.2 to Wordpress 2.0.2 this morning. The servers that power unto.net have a relatively small amount of memory available. I had found that even a single request to WP would instantly balloon the resident memory up to 25MB from the 7MB baseline. Since Wordpress 2.0 has caching built in I hoped [...]

Google Data APIs and OpenSearch
Thursday, April 20th, 2006

I’m briefly surfacing from my first vacation in, well, ever, to quickly comment on what Niall IM’ed me about last night. As far as I know, Niall had the scoop on Google’s new data API called GData. The Google Data APIs are an attempt to consolidate and generalize Google’s approach to read/write web services. To [...]

Rob Sanderson visits A9.com
Friday, April 14th, 2006

[Cross-posted on the A9 Developer Blog.] Dr. Robert Sanderson, senior editor and co-creator of the SRU search standard that is widely used throughout the library and information science communities, was kind enough to drop by the A9.com offices in Palo Alto, CA. In fact, he did more than casually stop in — Rob visited all [...]

Persistent Search and OpenSearch
Monday, April 10th, 2006

Russell Beattie (nice redesign, btw!) writes about Yahoo! and Persistent Search. He was inspired by Bill Burnham’s ideas about ongoing searches. To use Bill’s definition, “Persistent Search allows users to enter a search query just once and then receive constant, near real-time, automatic updates whenever new content that meets their search criteria is published on [...]

CSS Naked Day
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Oh, why not? No CSS for unto.net today… Oddly appealing, really. What happened to the design? To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.