July 21st, 2009
It was pleasant to discover that blogger.com (now part of the Google conglomerate) started supporting OpenID comment authentication last year.
However, at some point in the last couple of months it stopped working for me; I get the error code bX-m9h15s when trying to authenticate. As far as I know, my OpenID server is working just fine (OpenID Checkup agrees).
If I use my server URL directly (instead of an HTML resource that uses delegation) it works, albeit without incorporating any of the Simple Registration data. There are plenty of other reports, but nobody competent (and/or employed by google) has responded.
There doesn’t seem to be a true bug reporting facility for blogger; the competent users help the incompetent users on the discussion forum, but I can’t see any developer or even QC presence there.
Tags: openid
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July 9th, 2009
Last year I commented on how mod_deflate breaks the cache validation model. Essentially the problem has been addressing two issues:
So in January 2008, a change was committed to fix #39727, which introduced #45023. Now in April this year, it was reversed to fix #45023. I agree with the priorities here; no caching is much worse for web performance.
As Roy Fielding pointed out the correct way to deal with this issue is to stop abusing Content-Encoding for performance-compression and start using Transfer-Encoding; pity browsers and HTTP servers haven’t got there yet.
Tags: apache, http, rfc2616
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June 22nd, 2009
I just discovered the CSS text-shadow property (although it’s been rendering in WebKit and peregrine for a while).
Weird thing is, it has been excluded from CSS2.1, yet it was right there in CSS2 and is also in the latest draft of CSS3.
It’s a cool effect, in moderation.
Tags: css
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June 13th, 2009
I finally got around to updating Muxic to the new xmms2-0.6DrMattDestruction API. There were a few changes to the xmms2 clientlib that needed attention.
While I was doing this, I noticed that the xmms2 CF clientlib isn’t just superficially unusable, but will rev up your CPU something awful if the xmms2d drops its connection after registration of the clientlib CF runloop event source. It needs a shutdown function, and that shutdown function needs some connection-specific CF variables from the init function. Hence we can’t use the API in its current state (unless there’s some way to inject mainloop-specific state into the xmmsc_connection_t that I don’t know about).
I’ve reported it and presented a patch as XMMS2 bug #2232, but essentially it means that the libxmmsclient-cf that currently comes with xmms2 is very bugged.
Update: patch accepted into xmms2-devel.git.
Since macports haven’t updated their port of xmms2, here is my xmms2 @0.6DrMattDestruction portfile. I would have liked to support variants, but whenever I add my own –with-optionals or –with-plugins options to waf configure, the build breaks with link errors. This happens even when I copy the exact list that waf configure automagically selects without arguments. I haven’t figured out why this is, and trying to trace the internals of waf is a bitch.
Anyway, presenting Muxic Beta 2, source code available in gitweb and in the git repository as usual.
Tags: macports, muxic, xmms2
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