Nils Haack / Opticalvalve.com

And another year passed by

Verdammt! Schon wieder ist ein Jahr rum und hier hat sich nichts getan. Die Dev-Version der neuen Site liegt auch schon seit 1,5 Jahren rum und wirkt nicht mehr richtig frisch...

Immerhin hab' ich mich entschlossen hier auf deutsch weiter zu machen - mit 'ner eigenen Englisch-Kategorie für einzelne Posts. Naja, hier wird sich dann aber so bald wohl nichts ändern. Ich rechne noch mit mindesten 3-6 Monaten bis hier endlich was passiert.

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Hello again

Busy busy busy ... I just notices... uhm... my last post is actually quite old. You know... busy and stuff todo... Aha - I hear you think.

But behold! I have been busy recreating the site, hope to be able to show it to you soon. Additionally, I am working on a very interesting thing at the moment. I'm bursting not to tell you.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I have not forgotten about this site.

Edit: damn... I still have this old design running... hope to update it soon... nothing new here to see

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Zembly - A place for creating social applications

I stumbled over an article about this new service at semantic-web.at. Zembly is a service where you can easily create your own social applications. You do not need any editor or file transfer software, hosting environment or anything else - except for a browser and an online connection.

Knowing some (X)HTML, CSS and Javascript won't hurt when using zembly, but it is fairly easy to create some basic service, widget, facebook or meebo application. I signed up for some experiments, but didn't find much time for more extended play arounds. But really, with a few clicks you quickly get to a usable custom little social application. Neat.

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XHTML valid Youtube/Vimeo Embed Code

There you go. You spent so much time walking through your code, finding little bits here and there - to correct your XHTML so it validates nicely. However, with using the standard Youtube or Vimeo embed code you might get problems with validation.

For Youtube Videos there is a small generator in the links below. For Vimeo videos you'll find a short description. The first is more of a copy paste action for the quick video insert (shall you be lazy), the second just describes what to do to get XHTML valid source code from the original Vimeo code.

For Youtube (Generator): http://www.tools4noobs.com/online_tools/youtube_xhtml/
For Vimeo (Description): http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2008/06/14/converting-vimeo-embedded-html-to-xhtml/

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