Author Archives: l.m.orchard

I (used to) like rev=”canonical”

Update 4/14: So, I liked rev=”canonical”, but I like the notion of pages offering sets of alternative URLs better. There are enough cracks in the case for rev=”canonical” to stop caring about it and instead focus on the notion behind it. However it’s expressed—is it rel=”shortlink” now?—the final remaining things I’d like to [...]

7 facts about me

So, it finally happened—I’ve been tagged by Stephen Donner. I’ve not been one to follow memes in this blog, but this one’s been going around the Mozillasphere for awhile now and has been kind of interesting. I’m half-tempted to bookmark and tag all the entries I’ve caught so far. Anyway, the rules: Link [...]

Tags do work (for me, at least)

For the “too long; didn’t read” crowd: I’ve been using a lot of tags on Delicious over a relatively long time, so they seem very useful to me. Delicious encourages the use of tags through UI convention and tool usage patterns, whereas Flickr presents no particular bias toward collecting tags from users. Since title and description attract more [...]

Enter the LizardFeeder

Behind Firefox is Mozilla, and behind Mozilla is a community. And the Mozilla community acts a lot like an ecosystem, which can be visualized as a kind of living tree—not to confused with the mozilla-central tree. Oh yeah, and Mozilla is the name of both a Foundation and a Corporation. Confused yet? If [...]

Resolutions

So, after all that, I suppose the thing to do for a new year is to figure out what’s next, maybe compose some disposable resolutions for the coming months. Well, here are some off the top of my head: Spend time with my lovely wife. Eat less, move more. Write more. Be a valuable contributor at Mozilla. Make a few [...]

Three Years in Review

It’s been a busy 3 years or so. Yes, this promises to be one of those posts I seem to keep writing. It’s not quite LiveJournal material, but it’ll be completely devoid of code or any notable geekery—so feel free to move along. In late 2005 to early 2006, after a busy and stressful [...]

The Concise Guide to Dojo is a real book!

This year has been a doozy. A full account of it would fill a book, so it’s telling that I’ve neglected to raise much of a fuss about the fact that I actually have been working on a new book. Not only that, but part of that book has been spun off into [...]

An unnecessary Template Attribute Language

A funny thing happened on the way to building a delayed real-time feed display: I got temporarily obsessed with implementing a template language in JavaScript that, as it turned out later, I didn’t need. About the feed project itself, I hope to write more soon—but for now I want to get this extra [...]