When faced with the problem of publishing a large store of metadata describing a library of video clips, the obvious answer for us was to develop an XML based system. We designed an RDBMS to store the data in Access, with forms to enter, navigate and export to XML. The client interface we developed uses […]
We’ve been tinkering with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). This rather under-used XML based graphics format is ideal for publishing map data on the web. With the included scripting capabilities some neat effects can be achieved - like this map with selectable countries.
In our view, many websites could vastly improve their usability simply by including […]
We’ve just completed a publishing job which required reading 3B2 version 8 source and outputing Folio flat file format. If you don’t have a support contract from Advent3B2 it is hard to find information about the 3B2 format. If you are like me and prefer diving into some code rather than reading documentation this script […]
What do you do when you need to constantly monitor your clients’ websites conveniently? Simple! You write a little Perl-TK (Perl with windows graphics capability) utility and have it running on your desktop all the time. At a glance you can see when the last check was done, and ours alerts everyone on your local […]
Emacs, that great editor from the GNU guys. If you are programming in multiple languages, like me, Emacs is certainly your friend. I couldn’t manage without the extensive keyboard shortcuts and ability to seamlessly switch to different edit modes right there in the middle of programming. Maybe one the best uses for this is is […]
The standard Internet explorer installation comes with various DOM classes and APIs that can be used to work with XML and XHTML locally and over HTTP. We have adapted some of our ASP pages on the UniRom website to use these objects to display this blog and our technology areas from del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/).
There were […]