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Writing an IRC Bot – Part 1: Configuring the IRC Server

Jul 28

Posted by Scott in Programming

♫ This was a headache… ♫

I have never appreciated the W3C as much as I do now. Much as we all may hate their unreadable specifications, at least they enforce a certain amount of standardization, and they ensure that there is decent documentation available. I sincerely wish the the W3C would decide that IRC is in its bailiwick, and enforce certain standards.

We (Eric and I) decided that it would be kinda nice to have an IRC server, we obtained permission, and we looked around for a good one to install. I discover an irc server that appears to be simply known as ‘ircd’. I figure that that must be the official irc server, since otherwise it would be known as ‘johnny’s ircd’, or something of the sort. So Eric installs it.

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Important Differences in HTML 5 from HTML 4

Jun 21

Posted by Scott in Programming

Realizing that the age of HTML 5 was coming up on us faster than I had thought (I thought it was going to be at least a year before and major browser had full support, now I’m thinking it’ll be about a month), I set out to learn what made it different. Looking at a publication by the W3C that outlined the differences, I realized just how old HTML 4 is. I’ve put together a a complete list of the differences between HTML 5 and HTML 4, and I’ve outlined the important – and best – ones below.

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