Nov 6, 2002
As Vic pointed out, my page ceased to be XHTML-compliant when I moved posts inside categories. Bloxsom generates an ID to use inside the name attribute of an tag in order to facilitate linking to individual posts. This is great except for posts in sub-categories, whose IDs are prepended with the path to that … Read more
Nov 5, 2002
I knew that XML is case sensitive, but that didn’t stop me and my filthy assistant from agonizing for days as to why an XML request to a client’s server wasn’t being honoured. Actually, I only agonized over it for part of yesterday and some of today after I wrenched … Read more
Nov 5, 2002
That invalid RSS feed I spoke of was actually my bad. As it turns out, I actually was including a relative URL reference. Wow, do I feel like a dumbass for not taking a hard look at this entry which was causing the problem.
So now I have a valid RSS feed and … Read more
Nov 5, 2002
As reported by the Globe & Mail, the TTC will be having its biannual sale of lost articles this week on the mornings of the 6th, 7th and 8th at the Bay Subway Station. Bid forms cost $10.
Nov 4, 2002
I took a few minutes just now and put together a simple RSS feed. Trouble is, it doesn’t validate and I’m not sure why. The RSS validator claims that a “description should not contain relative URL references”, except that I don’t have any. Not a particularly helpful error message, that. I’ll have … Read more