Month: December 2002

I ended up using HTML::Template in a project at work, but I had to actually create a template as well. A filty, dirty, ugly, invalid template with nasty font tags and tables for layout. While I did managed to match the look of the site (and only had 4 lines of HTML in the code) it felt like quite a step backwards… I’m so used to writing XHTML and CSS that going back to the old methods actually hurt my brain a bit. Not to mention the fact that it was a mess to deal with. Please people, make the move to clean, structural markup using XHTML and CSS. You won’t be sorry…

(Note to self: Remember to set die_on_bad_params = 0)

I like good ideas.

As mentioned previously here, pb implemented PGP/GPG signing into his commenting system. I thought this was a good idea. My idea, following up on that idea, was an easy way to sort of auto-discover someone’s public key. While I’ve got a pretty prominent link on my site to my public key, most people don’t. I suggested a <link rel="publickey"…> type of tag, so that given a person’s URL, you could get their key. I thought that was a good idea. Ben then followed up with Verifying PGP Signatures which talks about a web-based verification service with a trust web.

This seems to be the way to get things done nowadays… What’s next?

Oh, pb also has a nice little explanation of how to use PGP/GPG in a commenting system.

You should know, that without a doubt, the adult female member of our household makes the best chocolate chip cookies on the planet known as Earth. This I am sure of…

The Slashdot Interview with Joe Clark is a good read. We also learn that Joe is a vegan… (Just don’t try to validate any Slashdot pages!)