Categoría: English

Posts written in English.


  • Suppose you go somewhere cool on vacation —it has to be cool enough so as to trigger show-off reflexes. Blogging about it, you’d think how nice would be that your mother readers could click on something to have the location displayed on a mapping service (Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and the like). Let’s envision some…

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  • That is surely the motto for Yahoo Pipes developers. Not only they are in the process of improving and polishing a very interesting approach to content feed processing and remixing; but they are also a speedy bunch whenever it comes the time to interact with users (developers in their own regard). Just have a look…

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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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