Archive for February 3rd, 2005

Source.zone open for contributions

Published by ugo on February 3, 2005 in opensource. 0 Comments

I've just enabled the Sign Up feature, provided by Confluence, in the Source.zone wiki. If you want, you can sign up and maybe start adding projects using the Add new project link.

This link allows you to create a new page, using a predefined template designed to capture essential information about open source software projects. Other than that, it's just a wiki, so feel free to add content as you like.

In any case, I reserve myself the right to delete any content I don't deem fit for the site's purpose.

Y!Q

Published by ugo on February 3, 2005 in web. 0 Comments

I've written this post just to test the effectiveness of Yahoo's new Y!Q contextual search tool.

I don't think I will use it as a permanent feature of this blog, since the implementation is somewhat awkward. Having to put the relevant text in a hidden form field is rather sub-optimal. Anyway, it's another interesting example of the use of the XMLHttpRequest object.

There's a quirk, though: it works with Firefox 1.0 on OS X but not on Linux. So, if you are using Linux, don't bother to click on the “Search related info” button.

onclick="return activateYQ(this)"/>

(via Dion)