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What would you call something that was sort of like a blog, except the order of posts was author defined instead of being reverse chronological?

This comes up because I've made a little plug-in for my new software that lets you keep a FAQ. Each entry is a question and an answer, and the order of entries on the page can be rearranged by the author. But now it strikes me that a FAQ is just one particular use of this plug-in since I think there are probably lots of situations where this would be useful (in the sense that it's like a re-orderable blog where each entry has a title and the body of the post instead of the FAQ specific 'question' and 'answer' nomenclature.)

But what would the whole thing be called? Not terribly important, but I can't think of what to name it.
- jim 2-19-2009 10:48 pm [link] [3 comments]

Xargs tutorial I need to look at some day.

(I make no claims that this blog is interesting to anyone else, as this post and almost all others show!)
- jim 2-18-2009 3:28 pm [link] [1 comment]

The Golden Grid is another CSS framework (like the popular Blueprint and 960 grid.) I've yet to use one of these for anything, but I keep watching with hope. At this point my intuition is that these projects can save you a lot of time and headache, until you need to do something that a particular framework can't handle. And there's always some demand that breaks the grid. But I guess that's why I have a job so I shouldn't complain. Still, if I ever have time to update one of my personal project pages (like this one from the dark ages of the web) maybe I'll play around with one of these.
- jim 2-18-2009 3:15 pm [link] [add a comment]

Some insane people have developed a text editor that runs in the browser. It uses javascript to draw everything into a canvas tag.

Bespin builds on this API to recreate a text editor from scratch. That’s right; rather than use the native facilities of every modern operating system that give you word processing features for free, Bespin rolls them from scratch, including such basic constructs as a blinking cursor and text selection.
I mean, seriously, that's insane. But if they could make it work well it would be really cool. It's a text editor, but the goal is to focus on code editing and to deliver not just a usable product, but something you might choose over your current desktop code editor. It's like javascript's coming of age party in the sense that programmers are somehow magically drawn to writing code editors in whatever their language of choice is - but no one has had that urge until now with javascript.

Runs in FireFox as well as WebKit and Chrome nightlies. Project home page.
- jim 2-18-2009 3:02 pm [link] [1 comment]

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