Category Archives: Programming
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A Milestone for XBRL
This could be a milestone in illustrating the benefits of using XBRL for companies filing financial data.Last week, Microsoft submitted a Form 8-K filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comprising financial data for shareholders, using XBRL. Why is this significant? First, it needs a bit of understanding …
By Neville Hobson
March 16, 2010
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A New Way to Organize Your Feeds
When you come across something interesting on the web, but don’t have time to read it at that moment, what do you do?The old way is to add the web page to your browser’s bookmarks or favourites so you can retrieve it when you do have time. A more recent …
By Neville Hobson
March 16, 2010
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XML-RPC ping endpoint in C# and ASP.NET
All blog platforms send out pings using the XML-RPC protocol whenever a new post is created or an old one is updated. It is very simple to send out XML-RPC pings using C#, because it is just a normal HTTP request with some XML in the request body. See here …
By Mads Kristensen
March 16, 2010
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XML Sitemap Ping Tool
All the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live, and Ask) use the XML Sitemaps protocol for getting URLs from websites. Of course they all still use good old-fashioned crawling, but the XML sitemap can be helpful for getting new content indexed quicker and also helping spot errors using other tools …
By Michael Jensen
March 16, 2010
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WordPress has Added XML Sitemaps
WordPress.com has added XML sitemaps so I thought I would take a glance at their implementation. My immediate though was to take a look at Lorelle’s sitemap.xml • Homepage daily priority • Every other page updated on a weekly basis? That seems like a good way to tell the spiders …
By Andy Beard
March 16, 2010
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Using XML Sitemaps Guide
Over at SEOmoz, Duncan Morris has come up with an informative post that provides the users with the pros and cons of using XML Sitemaps. Sitemaps.org defines sitemap as, “Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. …
By Navneet Kaushal
March 16, 2010
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Submitting Your XML Sitemap to Google
According to the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, the users now no longer have to specify the Sitemap file type in order to submit a Sitemap to Google! The search engine will now automatically determine as to what type of data is being submitted… In short – Sitemap submission has …
By Navneet Kaushal
March 16, 2010
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Without An XML Sitemap Does Your Site Still Get Indexed?
This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test and see if it was possible to get a website indexed using XML Sitemaps and no external links.
By Michael Gray
March 16, 2010
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Spry, Apollo, & Remote XML Sources
So this is probably a ‘Duh’ type post, but I was curious how Apollo and it’s “open” web browser would handle remote AJAX requests.
By Raymond Camden
March 16, 2010
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Model-Glue & URL Consistency
Someone asked on the Model-Glue mailing list how to keep deal with keeping event handler names and URLs in views consistent, i.e., if they change an event handler name, how can they avoid having to change the string wherever it appears in links in their views. Fusebox has long had …
By Sean Corfield
March 16, 2010
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