Año: 2007
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He cambiado mi equipo portátil a Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), relegando a Windows XP al estátus de máquina virtual. Y no esperaba que el cambio fuera fácil, aunque por lo que respecta a aplicaciones hace ya años que no dependo de nada único en el mundo Microsoft. La máquina en cuestión: un HP Compaq tc4200,…
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UnitFormat and InsertUnit, the sibling scripts from the series Greasemonkey and Microformats have been updated to reflect a little addition to the underlying measurement unit microformat: now, null units are supported (with unit name null) when converting among bases or from/to roman numerals. This is only a convenience measure to account for the fact that…
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Leaving so soon? I was hoping to interest you on yet another release of my famous series Greasemonkey and Microformats! No, wait! Please, oh please, just a little more… Well, for the few of you still there, here I am again at it. Today, let’s talk about something I fancy calling microformat lifecycle. It’s easy…
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends! In this third fourth (already?) installment of Microformats and Greasemonkey, we’ll wonder in sheer amazement at the unifying power of our two leading subjects when carelessly wielded against mounds of unstructured ignorance. How’s that for a beginning? The previous post ended abruptly in a cliffhanger-wannabe fashion, suggesting great…
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Welcome to the third installment in this series about microformats and Greasemonkey! In the last episode, after failing spectacularly at providing a not too long rant on the subject at hand (and even omitting completely the expected Greasemonkey bit), I boldly introduced a barebones measurement unit microformat proposal. Today, after deftly inserting another split infinitive…
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Welcome back! Today I am going to rant —briefly, I promise— about microformats and try to cobble together a simple one to denote measurement units. So there! As I said in the previous post, microformats are small pieces of self-significant HTML that may be used to embed automatically parseable information in a web page. They…