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Friday, February 25th, 2011
My little hobby web site for tracking your luck with a large Canaidan coffee and donuts chain’s roll-up promotion is back! My previous attempt was Drupal-based, and required an account. I was never very happy with the account requirement, and played with it being a facebook App but ultimately took the site down (described in… Continue Reading RimCount.com RRRR’eturns
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
I’ve assembled my list of things to look for when preparing content for the web with an eye to accessibility. I would like to add to this advice that I’ve always found that accessible web pages are the easiest way to create content that is well indexed by a search engine – as both serve… Continue Reading What to Look for when Trying to Author Accessible Content: My List
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
The draft of the AODA Integrated Accessibility Standards is currently posted on the Ministry of Community and Social Services web site. The section on “Accessible websites and web content” subsection 4 was what I was most interested in. There were only minor changes from what was in the last draft that I saw, but the… Continue Reading Web Accessibility, in the context of the AODA
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
The Conservative party’s take on Copyright reform, Bill C-32, is working its way through the parliamentary process. The last two copyright reform bills in Canada have died on the order paper, so it’s about time we revisit copyright as the Conservative government looks long in the tooth. The Bill C-32 Legislative Committee has invited Canadians… Continue Reading Speak out on Copyright in Canada
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
While my wife was getting a valuable two hours of sleep before she was woken with contractions signaling the birth of our first born child 19 hours later, I was not quite tired enough to sleep. UnknowingIy missing out on my last chance to sleep for a while, I was typing away at a PHP… Continue Reading PHP script to download files from GMail
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