Ampersand validation issues with Joomla

by Luke Rodgers on September 17, 2008

Joomla! is, in many ways, a great CMS. One of its shortcomings, however, is that it has been slow to adopt web standards, which frequently manifests itself in annoying validation issues with generated XHTML and XML feeds. These issues are (…)

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Consequences of bot-mediated reality

by Luke Rodgers on September 17, 2008

I have a lot of catch-up listening to do with regards to The Long Now Foundation’s excellent Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) lecture and podcast series. I’m a charter member of the Foundation, which gets you a sweet membership card (…)

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Amazon Web Services Start-Up Tour in Toronto

by Luke Rodgers on September 16, 2008

Attended this event at the MaRS Discovery centre,  informative as always (I was at another AWS event last year that was smaller scale), which was hosted by Prashant Sridharan, Director, Amazon Web Services and Mike Culver, AWS Evangelist, with presentations (…)

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I like Matt Damon

by Luke Rodgers on September 16, 2008

If only Spore DRM complainers were this vocal about all corporate injustices

by Luke Rodgers on September 14, 2008

As of this writing, Spore, the new game from Maxis and Electronic Arts, has generated 2,015 1-star reviews on Amazon.com. The reason for this being EA’s rather draconian (can only install on three machines without calling tech support, computer needs (…)

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Maybe Naomi Wolfe is right…

by Luke Rodgers on September 13, 2008

I’ve always been very hesitant to use extreme terms like “police state,” or especially “fascist,” when describing political developments in countries like the USA and the UK that are slowly but steadily eroding citizen’s rights and encroaching on their privacy. (…)

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Reason 3 not to vote for the Conservatives: who cuts literacy funding?

by Luke Rodgers on September 12, 2008

We could be doing worse, but research does show that Canada has a literacy problem.
So, if that’s the case, why would the Conservatives cut $17.7 million CDN from adult and family literacy programs? This is old news, but it made (…)

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Better pagination SEO with Wordpress

by Luke Rodgers on September 11, 2008

Though SEO doesn’t get me all hot and bothered like it does some people, it is on my radar, as I think it should be for all web designers and developers.
One of the blogs I’ve recently subscribed to is SEOMoz, (…)

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