Web Technology

OpenID Again

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Well I've upgraded to a later version of Drupal and this version conveniently has a nice third party module to support OpenID. That's good because the provider I used originally seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Now I can use my website as my OpenID and have the whole thing handled by VeriSign. Yea!

OpenID

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OpenID looks like something worth investigating. I have signed up for a free OpenID with Videntity, and I will use their server to make this website function as my own personal OpenID. There is a Drupal module under development (but not yet upgraded to 5.1) so I hope that my site will become OpenID enabled in the near future.

DHTML, DNS and de wascally wabbits!

Trying to serve up dynamic content? Well you have tons of solutions out there. You can use PHP, Java, Perl, Ruby and Python to create web pages. You can call CGIs, run a J2EE server, use WebObjects, or just roll your own. The most important thing is just getting the good results.

Half Dead

OK, OK. So not everything is working right yet. The drupal cron job is running so some feeds are starting to show up. I plan to add more and plenty of links to helpful websites. (I certainly have browsed a few of those trying to get drupal to work.) One big problem which has been there since the beginning is that transparent PNG files just don't work on Windows Explorer. My apologies. A fix exists and I'll try to get it implemented soon. But I have to admit that being primarily interested in the Macintosh and having been to enough Windows-only websites, I just ain't in that big a hurry. Leading to the next big thing: Explorer for the Macintosh - or as I like to call it "Exploder". Basically the CSS on this site fails miserably on my copy of Explorer. So if you aren't running Safari by now...