Archive for May, 2005
Robots attack
Once you have a Web site that gets a moderate amount of traffic, it’s likely to become the object of the attention of "robots" that crawl your site for the purpose of archiving or indexing its content or otherwise making the site available offline. We have one site whose number of "not viewed" pages exceeds [...]
Firefox ScrapBook extension
I’ve been waiting for something like the ScrapBook Firefox extension ever since I started using a Web browser. ScrapBook enables you to save a snapshot of any Web page, or selection of a Web page, as easily as you would bookmark it, and then allows you to highlight passages, and provide your own annotations.
With an [...]
A few amateur reflections on Open Source development
I recently had to add CSV logging functionality to the PloneFormMailer product for a customer. This isn’t the first time we’ve wanted to add some customization to an Open Source project. The temptation in such situations is always to simply make your changes, and maintain your own personal fork of the project. That’s generally the [...]