Websites and web services, from streaming and messaging to the tools and trends I follow online.
I always wanted to try building a Facebook application, so I finally took some time and made a simple one called GaMerz.WordPress. It displays my live site traffic, users online, and the latest post from my GaMerZ.WordPress blog.
An internationalized domain name, or IDN, is an internet domain name that may contain non-ASCII characters, such as letters with diacritics, or characters from non-Latin scripts like Arabic or Chinese. The standard, however, remains a work in progress.
While searching for XHTML 1.1 DOCTYPEs, I came across Wikipedia's article on XHTML 2.0, and after reading it I can't wait. The features look great, including the ability for any element to act as a hyperlink, much like XLink.
Old news from 25 October but interesting: Yahoo! is switching its scripting language to PHP, from a proprietary server-side page language written in C/C++. Some facts: 201 million unique users, 93 million page views a day.