Norman.Walsh.nameNorm's musings. Make of them what you will.http://norman.walsh.name/atom/whatsnew.xml2012-02-09T12:15:14.823228ZNorman WalshPlus this!http://norman.walsh.name/2011/10/24/plusThis2011-10-24T13:24:24Z2011-10-24T13:34:17.739695ZTheWeb

You want to be tracked, why, exactly?

Clonazepamhttp://norman.walsh.name/2011/01/21/clonzepam2011-01-21T13:13:08Z2011-01-21T13:14:01.441086ZSelfReferenceTheWeb

Musings on search and privacy.

OAuth from XQueryhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth2010-09-25T20:34:15Z2010-10-08T18:44:19.743584ZMarkLogicProgrammingTheWebXQuery

My micro-blogging backup tool fell over recently because Twitter switched to OAuth exclusively. Here's how I got it working again.

Wiki editing with XProchttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/03/07/wikiEdit2010-03-07T21:25:44Z2010-10-08T18:42:54.013373ZCalabashTheWebXProc

An example, for better or worse, of automating website interaction with XProc.

Micro-blogging Backup, part the fifthhttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/10/18/mbb052009-10-18T20:14:49Z2010-10-08T18:41:18.104679ZMarkLogicMicrobloggingTheWeb

In which we clean things up.

Micro-blogging Backup, part the fourthhttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/09/09/mbb042009-09-09T15:11:49Z2010-10-08T18:40:50.249059ZMarkLogicMicrobloggingTheWeb

In which we get to see what our tweets and ’dents look like.

Micro-blogging Backup, part the thirdhttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/09/03/mbb032009-09-03T20:12:40Z2010-10-08T18:40:46.8573ZMarkLogicMicrobloggingTheWeb

In which we peel back the covers on what's been built so far.

Micro-blogging Backup, part the secondhttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/08/28/mbb022009-08-28T18:16:44Z2010-10-08T18:40:40.15506ZMarkLogicMicrobloggingTheWeb

In which we setup the database one screen at a time and then import our first status messages.

Micro-blogging Backup, part the firsthttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/08/27/mbb012009-08-27T13:23:47Z2010-10-08T18:40:36.831212ZMarkLogicMicrobloggingTheWeb

What started out as a trivial exercise in backing up my Twitter and Identi.ca posts turned into a little microcosm of XML Server application development. It's something you can deploy for free on your very own MarkLogic Server!

Timing is everythinghttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/05/07/timing2009-05-07T14:17:27Z2010-10-08T18:40:03.34063ZRSSTheWeb

So, AtomPub is a failure and RSS is dead. Anyone want to guess what my conference presentation next week is about?

jQuery, .change() notification, and IEhttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/03/24/jQueryIE2009-03-24T20:34:57Z2010-10-08T18:39:28.996054ZLazywebTheWeb

I'd like to know when this radio button changes, ok? What's that, you're not going to tell me when it changes exactly, you're going to tell me the next time an event occurs? Gee, thanks.

iPhone+Clarifi+Evernotehttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/01/26/evernote2009-01-26T23:45:54Z2010-10-08T18:39:17.930704ZGadgetsSoftwareTheWeb

A quick and easy way to keep track of random bits of text.

Implementing AtomPubhttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/01/23/atompub2009-01-23T13:32:49Z2011-12-13T19:47:07.653871ZAtomProgrammingTheWeb

A few weeks ago, I decided to build a conformant AtomPub server implementation on MarkLogic Server. Mostly for fun, but partly with an eye towards using it for some future reimplementation of this weblog. In any event, it's up and running on my test server.

Text in PDF documentshttp://norman.walsh.name/2008/09/26/textInPDF2008-09-26T19:53:15Z2010-10-08T18:37:37.452762ZTheWebXML

You can see the words on the page, so you know they must be in there, right? Well, sorta.

Pandora killed the radio starhttp://norman.walsh.name/2008/07/29/pandora2008-07-29T14:43:39Z2010-10-08T18:37:09.791148ZMusicTheWeb

Commercial free music on your own personal radio station.

Agenda bookmarklethttp://norman.walsh.name/2008/05/09/bookmarklet2008-05-09T11:15:54Z2010-10-08T18:36:37.644192ZTheWebW3C

A ten minute hack to fix a ten second problem, linking to working group agendas and minutes.

Tweet!http://norman.walsh.name/2008/04/05/tweet2008-04-05T20:04:19Z2010-10-08T18:36:11.17242ZSelfReferenceTheWeb

A couple of attempts at interesting twitter applications.

More mapping hackshttp://norman.walsh.name/2008/03/31/moreMapping2008-03-31T17:44:35Z2010-11-02T16:42:56.080859ZEntertainmentSelfReferenceTheWeb

Mapping photographs is one of those fun little projects that grows everytime I think about it.

Mapping photographshttp://norman.walsh.name/2008/03/26/mappingPhotographs2008-03-26T18:27:04Z2010-10-31T19:10:46.415424ZEntertainmentSelfReferenceTheWeb

An AJAX/Google Maps hack. [Update 28 Mar 2008: Now with my Flickr contacts' photographs.]

Avatarshttp://norman.walsh.name/2008/03/07/avatars2008-03-07T19:16:31Z2010-10-08T18:35:51.136205ZSelfReferenceTheWeb

All the @chinposin on Twitter reminds me, I added “avatar” support to my weblog comment system a while back.

Microsoft + Yahoo!http://norman.walsh.name/2008/02/04/msftyhoo2008-02-05T03:20:17Z2010-10-08T18:35:09.291331ZPoliticsTheWeb

Like so many others, it doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

meta http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible: Brilliant!http://norman.walsh.name/2008/01/26/X-UA-Compatible2008-01-27T00:07:02Z2010-10-08T18:34:59.458235ZHTMLRantsTheWeb

Well played! Spectacular! Five Stars! Home run! Perfect!

Parallel windows reduxhttp://norman.walsh.name/2007/12/01/parallelWindows2007-12-01T15:47:31Z2010-10-08T18:32:48.751159ZFirefoxLazywebSelfReferenceTheWeb

I'm driving two browser windows in parallel again. That's good news for my presentations.

Goodbye, Facebookhttp://norman.walsh.name/2007/11/27/facebook2007-11-27T17:11:54Z2010-10-08T18:32:39.214691ZTheWeb

Blech.

Implicit Namespaceshttp://norman.walsh.name/2007/11/12/implNamespaces2007-11-12T19:06:31Z2010-10-08T18:31:45.031936ZHTMLTAGTheWebXML

Of XML documents and media types. Are namespaces sometimes redundant? How much are you willing to infer?

Mojohttp://norman.walsh.name/2007/10/18/mojo2007-10-18T20:44:14Z2010-10-08T18:31:27.114907ZTheWebWebServices

Getting your telephone mojo on. [Updated: new pipeline.]

Shared annotations?http://norman.walsh.name/2007/09/18/annotations2007-09-18T05:19:39Z2010-10-08T18:30:17.967607ZTheWeb

Perhaps I'm responsible for reviewing more documents than the average engineer (though I sort of doubt it), but I can't believe that I'm the only one who's been waiting years for a practical way to share annotations.

Better navigationhttp://norman.walsh.name/2007/08/30/specNavigation2007-08-30T14:11:18Z2010-10-08T18:29:57.243164ZHTMLTheWebXProc

It's been ages since I wrote about site navigation links. As the XProc spec works its way towards Last Call, I'm reminded of their value.

Parallel Windowshttp://norman.walsh.name/2007/02/20/parallelWindows2007-02-20T21:36:49Z2010-10-08T18:26:08.75955ZFirefoxLazywebSelfReferenceTheWeb

I'm trying to drive two browser windows in parallel. It used to work, circa August of 2006, but doesn't anymore. Perhaps I was exploiting a feature subsequently deemed a bug. I dunno. Lazyweb?

Metadata big banghttp://norman.walsh.name/2007/02/18/bigBang2007-02-19T00:04:57Z2010-10-08T18:26:04.810108ZRDFSelfReferenceTAGTheWeb

Hacking httpRange-14.