I did a Google search using a search query that a user had performed to get to outdoormichigan.org. I wanted to see where it showed up in the search results. When I found it in the results, I was surprised to see the text from inside the <noscript> tag, ”Javascript is required”, in the result summary.
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HTML 5 Species Taxon Microdata Using Darwin Core
I just added HTML 5 species taxon microdata to globalspecies.org. This provides machine readable data for certain properties of a species. ie. Taxonomy, common names, synonyms. The data is embedded in the HTML and is tagged as property name/value pairs.
An example of the extracted data can be seen using Google’s Rich Snippets Testing Tool.
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Yuminess, Not!
While trying to upgrade postgresql on my Linode virtual host, I managed to accidentally uninstall apache and php thanks to yums dependency management. Needless to say, all of my websites went down. I was tired of centoses locked in time software versioning and the hoops that were needed to add another software repository to get newer versions of software.
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CSS Progress Bar or Gauge
Today I needed a gauge to show where on a scale that a value fell.
Example:
I wanted to use CSS instead of dynamically creating an image in PHP or creating 100 static images.
I found some samples that use DIV tags to create a gauge, but I needed to put text both before and after the gauge on the same line.
So I modified the sample Super simple CSS bars.
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Website Click Tracker Written in PHP
While looking at globalspecies.org’s webserver access log, I thought it would be interesting to see how the users were navigating the website. After not finding a free solution written in PHP, I decided to write my own.
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Password Security
Today I got an email from a site, that I haven’t visited in years, saying that they had been hacked and the password database had been stolen. Yikes!
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