DeWitt Clinton

Blogging via the browser is a potentially powerful model. This post, for example, was entirely written and published using Flock, the content-oriented browser based on the Mozilla codebase.
Of course, the real value isn’t in using the browser as a stand-alone blog-post editor. If you’re online you may as well use your native blog [...]

I have been revisiting the tools I use in my preferred Java web application development stack. Some of these are being used by me for the first time (Velocity, Eclipse Web Tools Project) or replace older tools that served similar roles (Subversion, Maven, Spring Framework). Others are newer versions that introduce invaluable feature [...]

As has been observed before, microformats work particularly well in the context of syndicated search.
With that in mind, here is something that I have been working on:

A draft document on OpenSearch and microformats.

But first, some background:
Microformats exhibit a profound and subtle characteristic in that they can be used to present structured and semi-structured [...]

I notice that the milestone release of Firefox 2 has implemented a mechanism for “Google Suggest“-style auto-completions right in the browser’s search box. Very neat feature.
I haven’t pinged Gavin yet about whether or not this feature will be exposed in the new search plugin model. This document hints that it might be; [...]

I pushed out a new version of the venerable Cache::Cache module to CPAN and SourceForge. It may take an hour or two for the files to propagate to the mirrors. Just a few minor bugfixes in version 1.05, nothing to worry about if it already works for you.
I wrote the original module some [...]