Lee Kelleher

Archive for posts tagged with 'webdev'

  1. Converting CSV to XML

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    There’s a bit a functionality on one of the projects that I’m working on where I need to do a lookup. The data I’ve been given is in an Excel spreadsheet – which I needed to convert to XML (as ultimately the data will be stored in a CMS that handles XML better). I’ve done a lot of projects where I need to convert XML to Excel (via CSV), but not many where I need…

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  2. Greasemonkey Userscripts

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    I made a couple of Greasemonkey userscripts this afternoon… both related to Flickr’s machine-tags, one for IMDb and the other for Last.fm.

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  3. Dodgy PNG Colour Rendering

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    I thought I was going mad, but it seems that browsers (specifically IE6/7 & FF) still render PNGs differently! (It’s related to the Gamma Correction and Colour Correction)

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  4. Yahoo’s Pipes

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    I’m reading a lot about Yahoo’s Pipes this morning… I had a quick play around with it, looks like a really easy way to mash-up data/web-services!

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  5. Install multiple versions of IE on your PC

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    I’ve known about this for ages, but came across it again today. I still have upgraded to IE7 (since I’m a Firefox convert), but if you need to run multiple versions of IE on the same PC, TredoSoft have two nice pieces of software: IE7 Standalone and MultipleIEs

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  6. Brit Lit Blogs relaunched

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    Brit Lit Blogs has been relaunched! – it’s been good hard work and well worth it!

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  7. Yahoo and MSN will use Google’s Sitemap Protocol

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    Yahoo and MSN are uniting with Google to provide support for the Sitemap Protocol! (more info here – sitemaps.org)

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  8. SimplePie 1.0 Beta 3

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    SimplePie 1.0 Beta 3 gets released later today… which means I’ll be one step closer to the BLB relaunch!

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