08/28/05
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Technorati is for blog what Google is for classical web sites. But what is the difference? First, the difference is about the way to register a new entry. Google is using a robot that periodically crawl your web site. For Technorati, bloggers must say to Technorati that they have something new. This operation is called a "ping" (nothing to do with TCP/IP ping) and is done using this Technorati Ping Form. Your note will appear in Technorati only several minutes after submission instead of hours or days for Google bot to crawl your page. Another difference is that Technorati uses tags (like del.icio.us, see my previous note on del.icio.us). Tags can be seen as categories. Popular Technorati tags can be seen here. The goal is to be able to see what bloggers are saying about a particular topic. If you type http://www.technorati.com/tag/webdesign in a browser, you will have what people are currently saying about Java. If you want something to be store on a particular tag, just put a link like that under your note: Starting from now you will see Technorati tags in the footer of our blog notes. |
08/26/05
Mambo: our improvements to AkoComment component -
Categories: CMS, Mambo -
Arnaud Bonneville
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 | We are using the opensource Mambo product to manage our website. As we wanted to enable our readers to leave comments on our articles, we have looked for a Mambo addon and found AkoComment 2.0. This component is pretty nice, but we had additional needs. That's why we have slightly updated the component and propose our updates for the opensource community. Click here to see the improvements we propose ! |
08/22/05
OpenLaszlo, framework for Rich Internet Applications -
Categories: XML, JavaScript, Web Design, OpenLaszlo, RIA -
Serge Baccou
@ 01:35:27 pm
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OpenLaszlo is an open-source framework to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIA). It's based on Flash from Macromedia. You describe your GUI in LZX, the Laszlo XML-based language, using industry standards such as XML, JavaScript, and XPath. This demo illustrates the potential of OpenLaszlo. And this is to learn Laszlo in 10 minutes. |
08/20/05
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This document (PDF) was written by Richard Bowen for ApacheCon Europe 2005, held in Stuttgart, Germany from 18th to 22th July 2005. It gathers some criticisms about Apache with a lot of humour. Richard is a member of Apache Software Fundation (ASF). |
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I'm happy to present Google Sitemaps Stylesheet (GSStylesheet), a XSLT stylesheet named gss.xsl. The stylesheet has been created by Baccou Bonneville and others to display sitemaps XML files in a user-friendly way. You can also check that the URLs in your sitemaps are working. Thanks to Johannes Mueller, sorting is also available for sitmap files. Here is a demo of Google Sitemaps Stylesheets for Baccou Bonneville web site. It works with IE and Firefox. |
08/18/05
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del.icio.us is multi-user free bookmarks manager. Your bookmars are available on every location (home, office,etc.) and you can share your bookmarks with others. I have created an entry for Baccou Bonneville: check it out at http://del.icio.us/baccoubonneville. |
08/17/05
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Google is experimenting Google sitemaps, a new tool for the webmaster to teach Google bot about the different pages of a web site. The web pages are described in one or more XML-based files. Google provides the XML-Schemas for these files. It is clear that these files should be generated by a Content Management System or a blog engine. Google sitemaps also support RSS or Atom feeds as a description of your web site. A web-based administration tool is provided by Google to manage submissions and to control errors. |
08/11/05
What is and how to fight the referer spam attack? -
Categories: Blogs, Security -
Serge Baccou
@ 10:35:30 pm
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I was wondering why we had a big number of connections on our web site for the first days of August. The answer is that our web site was the victim of the so-called referer* spam attack. I have found this article on Referer Spam by Mike Healan from Spywareinfo that explains what is a referer, how is done the attack and how to protect your web site or blog. Another article "Blocking bad bots without mod_rewrite" by Johan Petersson explains how to protect your web site even if your hosting company does not offer mod_rewrite (like for Francexpress that hosts www.baccoubonneville.com). * A referer is the previous URL from which a link was followed to finally go on your web site. |
08/08/05
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Marketleap proposes a free use of one of their tools: Link popularity check. You have to type the URL of your web site, optionally three comparison URLs and your industry and you will have a detailled report with 30 web sites including your web site, all ordered by popularity. This is really a kind of industry benchmark for your web site! And again: it's free. |
08/07/05
View in Firefox from IE, view in IE from Firefox -
Categories: Web Design -
Serge Baccou
@ 12:56:46 pm
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For any reason (often because of cross-browser issues with some web sites), people who are using Firefox, sometimes wants to open a page under Internet Explorer and vice-versa. Fortunately, there are two plug-ins that adds some right-click menus to view a page in the other browser. Firefox view plug-in adds a menu in IE to view a page in Firefox and IE view plug-in adds a menu in Firefow to view a page in IE. Useful,isn't it? |
08/02/05
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Google has released their Google Toolbar for Firefox. You can download this Firefox extension here. I recommend to play with the following features:
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