http://www.rl-bb.com Random thoughts and arbitrary links Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:21:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A while back Google released a JavaScript API for YouTube which allows you to build your own custom players for YouTube content. It lets you do some neat things, such as completely changing the look of the YouTube player, including making a completely "chromeless" player. I recently (finally) signed up ... http://www.rl-bb.com/2009/04/does-google-need-to-update-the-youtube-tos/ Until today I had never heard of the Conficker worm. Suddenly today there seems to be a lot of media hysteria about it because tomorrow it is apparently going to cause the world to come to an end. Or at least that's what the local news would have ... http://www.rl-bb.com/2009/03/conficker-much-ado-about-nothing/ From the dawn of dynamic web pages people have been devising ways to feed different content to different browsers. Instead of coding to the standards and using progressive enhancement, they would create different versions of pages that catered to specific browsers, different versions of those browsers and the ... http://www.rl-bb.com/2008/12/proof-browser-sniffing-is-still-a-bad-idea/ Apparently a new spammer has found my blog and decided to hit it hard. It's not visible on the blog since I have Wordpress set to hide comments until I approve them, but I had more than 700 comment spam messages in my queue. For now I am ... http://www.rl-bb.com/2008/10/policy-change/ I had briefly looked at Yahoo's third version of the YUI library back when they announced Preview Release 1, but didn't spend too much time on it since it's still a bit in the future. After watching Eric Miraglia and Matt Sweeney's presentation “YUI 3: A Look Ahead”, I'm ... http://www.rl-bb.com/2008/10/yui-3-looks-exciting/