We’ve been in hardcore documentation mode at my day job for the last few weeks. Unfortunately, this means that I’m spending a lot of time in Microsoft Word. (I know I could be using OpenOffice or NeoOffice. I just don’t like working in word processors, in general.) I would much prefer to be working in Vim. Today, the itch got bad enough to require scratching, so I wrote a little Ruby script that converts a Markdown document into a full HTML document. Because the managers are expecting me to produce Word documents, I added a style block so that things can be tweaked to look good in Word.
If you try it out, I’d appreciate feedback.
Twitter has been down for about an hour. (It’s a scheduled outage.) It’s driving me nuts. I’m totally addicted.
I just published my first two Yahoo Pipes. I use them, so I know they’re at least a bit useful. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for making improvements to them.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available for download. I haven’t had the chance to try it yet. Looking forward to seeing how good its standards mode really is.
Despite what the headlines will say Wednesday morning, Hillary Clinton was not the big winner in Tuesday’s primaries and caucuses.
Rejoice, my fellow web developers! Microsoft has finally learned the error of its ways.
We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.
Of course, the skeptic in me is asking in what other way Microsoft plans to screw us.
From BetaNews:
In the latest of a lengthening string of failures in city-wide wireless projects across the US, MetroFi of Mountain View, CA has reportedly stopped work on a project in Portland, Oregon.
After installing 590 functional wireless access points (APs) in Portland, MetroFi has asked the city to provide $9 million in public funds to finish the job with an additional 2,000-or-so APs.
I’m glad that the city has decided not to spend public money on this disappointing project. Maybe I’m an exception, but I never found a “functional” MetroFi access point. I’ve always been able to see them in my list of available networks. But connecting to them has always failed.
