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Posts written in English.

  • Greasemonkey and microformats (2)

    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…

  • Greasemonkey and microformats

    This is going to be the first of a tiny series of overly technical posts which may only matter to a number of persons so small it may indeed turn out to be negative. Meaning this might (just might) not matter even to me. Anyway, it’s been fun in a twisted way. Enjoy. Greasemonkey is…

  • Quote of the Day

    You should see over these lines the result of my last project: a Quote of the Day implementation for Blogger It should be a piece of cake to port to other blogging platforms: the only requirement for the code to work is to have a recent version of the JQuery Javascript library loaded. Rewriting the…

  • Bibliolinks v3

    Lately, real life constraints have forced me to consider the possibility of growing an additional pair of arms, Shiva-style; however, some tiny bugs in Bibliolinks, together with my recent discovery of jQuery, have prompted me to release a new version, Bibliolinks v3. This version features a new, web-two-dot-zeroish load progress indicator, together with a handy…

  • New address

    I have a shiny new domain! If there is anyone bookmarking me, http://brucknerite.net is the new URL. The old URL will redirect here indefinitely, but avoid procrastination for once and edit your links. You know who you are.

  • Bibliolinks explained

    In an earlier post I presented bibliolinks, a new blogger tool based on Google AJAX Search API. Now it’s time to explain how to install it in your Blogger blogs. You’ll have to modify your template in obscure and contorted ways, so be prepared and backup it before it’s too late! One more thing: this…

  • Bibliolinks!

    Lots of links in your posts? Would you like something that provides your readers with prompt access to all links in your posts, together with clipped content? Something like an automatic bibliography for your blog? You’ve come to the right place! Bibliolinks is a tool which, by means of some right out nasty manipulation of…

  • How to blog in more than one language

    The Spanish blogosphere looks weak. But language is accidental, automatic translation is ubiquitous, and the relative importance of content creator language is shrinking day in day out. However, when considering translation issues like those illustrated in the last post, perhaps some human intervention is in order to bridge the gap between semantic worlds. To assist…