Posts for May, 2008

IP version 6 practical exploration diary - part one

May 30th, 2008 by Greg Rogan | 1 Comment »

IPv6 spread the love iconA few folk here at SSC recently decided to set up a IPv6 network. As most will know, global IPv4 addresses are running out and IPv6 introduces a far larger address space. What follows is a diary or log entry style format showing my progress and thought patterns.

hCard Microformat Creator for New Zealand [updated 15 July 2008]

May 23rd, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 4 Comments »

Calender IconThe hCard microformat is an open format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places with machine-readable semantic HTML. We have published a tool (beta) for generating hCard code for a typical New Zealand address and testing the mapping of that address with Google maps.

Macrons on the Net

May 7th, 2008 by Ewen Cumming | 1 Comment »

For many users the way to insert a macron (ā,ē,ī,ō,ū) whilst writing is to find a page with one and copy/paste the needed character. Obviously there are easier ways, in this post I explore and experiment with a few methods to easily add macrons when entering content for the web.