Und wieder etwas gelernt: An einem Freitag sollte man nicht versuchen, den ÖBB-Bus von Graz nach Klagenfurt ohne Sitzplatzreservierung zu nehmen. Irgendwie hatte ich naiver Weise geplant, einfach mit dem Bus um 16:39 Uhr wieder nach Klagenfurt zu fahren und hatte nicht mit dem Ansturm gerechnet, der sich mir um 16:20 Uhr vor dem Bus bot. Zu dem Zeitpunkt hatte sich vorm Einstieg schon eine Gruppe von knapp 20 anderen Leuten versammelt, die alle noch in den ohnehin schon halbgefüllten Bus wollten. Der Fahrer konnte dann eigentlich nur mehr Leute mit Reservierung einsteigen lassen oder halt jene, die bereit waren, erster Klasse zu Fahren. Naja, zwei Stunden mehr Graz tut auch nicht weh, aber dann habe ich mir wenigstens eine Reservierung für den nächsten Bus geholt (der auch wieder in der zweiten Klasse zu rund 90% gefüllt war) ;-)
Archive for 2009/06
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Bus voll!
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inFAMOUS
When I first saw some longer gameplay footage of inFamous for the PS3 I thought: "Crackdown + shooting electricity from your hands? I'm in". But inFamous is more than just a simple iteration or only a slight improvement over the two-year-old Xbox360 game. And with its successor still far away, there was nothing holding me back on getting this one.
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Not Safe For Work HTML5
Primary link: www.w3.org
Some feature requests are awesome, some good, some are strange and some are just weird. I'm not yet sure where to put this request for HTML5 that proposes adding a <nsfw> ("not safe for work") tag into the language specification. While it definitely has more semantic meaning than adding a CSS-class "nsfw" into each relevant node, it in my opinion doesn't warrant its own tag. If you think it through, you would also have to create tags like <spoiler>, <shoppingcart> and <answer>.
In a comment on Jeffrey Zeldman's blog Darcy Murphy suggested the use of rel="nsfw" which is probably a really good solution for links, but probably doesn't help with inline-content. There using a class is perhaps the best way also when it comes to semantics. In either case, native support within browsers as perhaps part of some profile systeme (plus some parental control) is required to make the whole idea useful.
[via www.zeldman.com]
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Are all FriendFeed bindings outdated?
Is it just me or are most language bindings for the FriendFeed API mostly outdated? I've now looked at the official ones for Python, PHP and C# as well as two for Java and none of them offers the extended search facilities provided by the API , e.g. the domain search or the URL fetcher. The "real-time"-methods are nowhere to be seen, either. And if you want to at the missing functionality to some of the Java bindings, you end up running into the private-method-wall -_-.
So far I've only found one binding for Python (albeit not the official one) by Chris Lasher that supports at least the domain-search. (A new version of it is out now, btw. :D)
On a side-note: If you write a binding for a language, (big, big, big) please make sure that it's easy to use. It doesn't really help if a PHP binding is not in PEAR, a Java binding is in no Maven2 repository or a Python binding is not on PyPI.
