Wayne Horkan's weblog: eclecticeclecticLast years photos from Sun's Customer Engineering Conference 2007 (CEC 2007)- August 25, 2008 Found these the other day, posted up to Flickr... www.flickr.comhttp://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/sun_cec_2007_las_vagas links for 2008-08-18- August 18, 2008 FAQs - blogs.sun.com - wikis.sun.com Sun blogs FAQ (tags: wiki blogs blog) Lars Trieloff&039;s Collaboration Weblog : Posting from del.icio.us to Roller How to set up 'links for' posts from del.icio.us (tags: blog roller delicious) ongoing REST Questions Great piece by Tim Bray on the current...http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/links_for_2008_08_18 Microsoft's very public "Blue Screen of Death" crash out at the Beijing Olympics- August 15, 2008 First reported by RiverCoolCool on his blog: http:rivercoolcool.spaces.live.comblogcns!D6F05428A2B8CB48!1570.entry Then by Gizmondo: http:gizmodo.com5035456blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting Now it's at the Register: http:www.theregister.co.uk20080813olympics_blue_screen_death But what's genuinely amusing about this is the comments that are coming up, they range from the obvious to the really quite odd. There are the standard comments...http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/microsoft_crash_bsod_beijing_olympics Follow me on Twitter, you know you want to...- August 14, 2008 Seeing as I've been blogging about Twitter and it's new lack of support for outbound SMS for Europe, the UK and the rest of the World (well, apart from the US, Canada and India, that is)... And seeing as it's generated a ton of page hits... I thought I'd take this opportunity to invite you all to follow me. follow Wayne on twitter You never know I might even follow you back. Here's what I've been Twittering (or is that Twitting, lol) about.http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/follow_wayne_horkan_on_twitter New Sun and SCC Partner Website- August 14, 2008 Check out the new Sun SCC partner website here: http:www.scc-sun.com Specialist Computer Centres (SCC) are one of Sun's main partner organisations in the UK and you can learn more about them, and Sun UK's reseller partners here: http:uk.sun.comaboutsuncontactpartners This has been out a little while now, but I wanted to make sure I brought it to your attention. There's no nepotism here, even if SCC are based in Tyseley, Birmingham, and I once lived opposite the Greet Inn pub (not only...http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/new_sun_scc_partner_website No outbound Twitter SMS for Europe, the UK and, frankly, most of the World- August 14, 2008 I received the following email this morning, apparently they'll be no more outbound Twitter SMS for Europe, the UK and most of the rest of the World. The only countries to be keeping the outbound SMS service are Canada, India, and the US. Apparently it's all down to the charges that our mobile network operators charge us for SMS delivery, which initially Twitter had been subsidising, however they can't afford to do that any more and have begun to "rein in the cost" by disabling the service. I...http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/no_outbound_twitter_for_europe Roller Weblogger improved blogroll display code for use with icons and images- August 11, 2008 Here's some code that improves on the default Roller Weblogger blogroll code to ensure that if you include an image icon for your blogroll entries it displays the image and the blogroll entry name (good if your using icons). Using the default roller macro for displaying your blogroll means that no text is displayed if an image icon URL is given. The default behaviour leaves rather empty lists of course, so I see this as an improvement. So this code is effectively a replacement for...http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/roller_weblogger_improved_blogroll_code Roller Weblogger blog post tag link code for blogs.sun.com, technorati and del.icio.us- August 11, 2008 Here's some code that produces tag links to four popular tag destinations, your blog, blogs.sun.com, technorati and del.icio.us (for your Roller Weblogger based blog, as the code is velocity). It also ensures that the links are marked as tags, so that crawlers that look for and index tags and tag data will pick them up (microformat and semantic web focused applications, like the 'Operator' plug in for Firefox also pick them up of course). I only add it to individual entries, rather than...http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/roller_weblogger_tag_technorati_delicious Roller Weblogger language translation with Google using JavaScript and Velocity- August 11, 2008 So here's the latest version of my Google Translation code for Roller Weblogger, as used to host blogs.sun.com (or 'bsc' as we in Sun call it). It's much improved over the original and Google versions. First off it checks for JavaScript, if there then it uses it to make sure the page hasn't been translated before as well as get the current URL to translate (Google generates translation glitches if it tries to translate pre-translated pages). If not it still generates the language...http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/google_language_translation_roller_weblogger |