Utility Stylesheets

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Transforming XML: Utility Stylesheets,
Part Two

Transforming XML: Utility Stylesheets,
Part Two 05/05/2004 06:17 PM
In this month's Transforming XML column Bob DuCharme continues his tour of generic, utility stylesheets.

"Blosxom: Think of it as cat(1) with
stylesheets"

"Blosxom: Think of it as cat(1) with
stylesheets" 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
A simply fab review of Blosxom appears as a sidebar (read: 1/2-pagebar) to an article titled "Building with Blogs" in the March issue of Linux Journal.

In "Blosxom: Think of it as cat(1) with stylesheets," Don Marti writes:

Time to look at Rael Dornfest's Blosxom, which might be described as blogging UNIX-style.
...
The fun part about Blosxom isn't what it does in that first 15 minutes--it's what you'll end up doing to yours in the first 15 days. A bas les cookie-cutter blogs! Vive le Blosxom!

I just love hearing peoples' take-away from their experiences with Blosxom. To some, it's the simplicity of writing, as nature intended, in your favourite text editor. Others can't wait to get their hands on those perl-ish innards. Ever my favourite is "It's like a weblog haiku on my iBook."

DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.64.0

DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.64.0 12/15/2003 06:54 PM
DocBook stylesheets, schemas, documentation, and resources.

DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.64.1

DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.64.1 12/19/2003 01:07 PM
DocBook stylesheets, schemas, documentation, and resources.

DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.66.0

DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.66.0 09/15/2004 01:35 PM
DocBook stylesheets, schemas, documentation, and resources.

DocBook to LaTeX XSL stylesheets

DocBook to LaTeX XSL stylesheets 03/13/2003 03:38 PM
0.7pre2 released

Per-site user stylesheets

Per-site user stylesheets 07/14/2004 07:03 PM

I've been thinking a lot about per-site user stylsheets recently. Eric Meyer's CSS signatures are great for sites that support them (as this site does), but the sites that really need altering are highly unlikely to carry them. I posted a comment to that effect on photomatt.net a while ago, and thankfully it was spotted by Ryan Tomayko who has published a simple brilliant hack that uses XBL in Mozilla's user stylesheet to execute JavaScript which adds a CSS signature to every site you visit.

I suggest making a couple of minor modifications to Ryan's code. Firstly, it over-writes any existing body tag IDs which could cause problems on the few sites that use a body ID as a hook for per-page styling. I would recommend not over-writing the ID if it already exists, or adding an additional class to the body element instead. More importantly, Ryan's technique couples your browser's user stylesheet to an XBL file hosted on his server. Not only is this a performance menace (for both his server and potentially your browser) but it opens a cross-site scripting vulnerability in that you are executing code from outside your control every time you visit a web page. I recommend hosting the XBL file locally instead, although the best solution would be to upgrade Ryan's hack to a fully self-contained FireFox extension.

Quibbles aside, it's a brilliant workaround. Be sure to check out the comment from michael on photomatt.net as well.

CSS Crash Course - Introduction to
StyleSheets

CSS Crash Course - Introduction to
StyleSheets 12/18/2002 07:04 AM
First in a series of CSS ice breakers.

DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.55.0 released

DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.55.0 released 09/18/2002 03:29 PM
Changes include new Lithuanian and Vietnamese localizations, support for rotating table cells in FO output, experimental chunking performance enhancements, and a variety of other enhancements and bug fixes. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935

DocBook XSL stylesheets 1.54.1 released

DocBook XSL stylesheets 1.54.1 released 09/03/2002 11:37 AM
The DocBook Open Repository project have released version 1.54.1 of the DocBook XSL stylesheets distribution, a set of stylesheets for use in converting DocBook XML documents to HTML, XSL-FO, Microsoft HTML Help, JavaHelp, and man pages. This release provides a number of significant enhancements.

DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.52.0 released

DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.52.0 released 07/08/2002 08:49 PM
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935 Changes include: A complete and consistent set of chunking parameters; many new HTML Help parameters; support for new-style OLinks; experimental support for xref styles; completely reworked page master/sequence config; support for cross-references to paragraphs; new header/footer, column, and glossary parameters; other new parameters: draft.mode, suppress.footer.navigation and suppress.header.navigation, make.graphic.viewport, nominal.image.depth, nominal.image.width, use.embed.for.svg, refentry.title.properties, section.title.properties, use.embed.for.svg, generate.meta.abstract.xml

DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets 1.78

DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets 1.78 03/13/2003 11:27 AM
DocBook stylesheets, schemas, documentation, and resources.

DocBook XSL stylesheets 1.54.1 released
(xmlhack)

DocBook XSL stylesheets 1.54.1 released
(xmlhack) 09/04/2002 09:50 AM

Site specific stylesheets in Mozilla

Site specific stylesheets in Mozilla 08/18/2004 10:41 PM

New in Mozill a 1.8 Alpha 3: bug 238099 - implement at-rule for matching on site/document URL. Here's the example:

@-moz-document
url-prefix(http://www.mozilla.org/) {
  #q { background: white ! important; color: black ! important; }
}

Drop that in your userContent.css file for black-on-white search fields, but only for pages with URLs starting in http://www.mozilla.org/. Two other selection functions are available: domain(mozilla.org) for all page (and sub-domains) of the mozilla.org domain and url(http://www.mozilla.org/) for just the page matching that exact URL.

The sooner this makes it in to Firefox the better.

FileMaker XML Central serves up free
stylesheets, more

FileMaker XML Central serves up free
stylesheets, more 03/13/2003 10:24 AM

IBM Infoprint XML Extender for z/OS
supports XSL stylesheets and XSL-FO (XML
Cover Pages)

IBM Infoprint XML Extender for z/OS
supports XSL stylesheets and XSL-FO (XML
Cover Pages) 11/04/2002 10:42 AM

Switching document views: Applying XSLT
stylesheets dynamically with DOM (XML
Journal)

Switching document views: Applying XSLT
stylesheets dynamically with DOM (XML
Journal) 07/17/2002 01:09 PM

Mac OS X Utility

Mac OS X Utility 02/17/2003 06:27 PM
For a while now I've been looking for a graphical tool to make Unix Symbolic Links from within the Finder. Previously I used the command

All-in-one utility app

All-in-one utility app 01/18/2004 10:25 PM
ZDNet Jan 19 2004 2:15AM GMT

mp3cat utility 0.4

mp3cat utility 0.4 06/19/2004 07:33 AM
A tool that filters MP3 data from standard input to standard output.

"a public utility"

"a public utility" 05/11/2004 10:22 PM

The ManagementModuleUtil.exe Utility

The ManagementModuleUtil.exe Utility 09/13/2004 08:34 PM

AutoShareWks Utility

AutoShareWks Utility 06/24/2004 04:16 PM

SQLdb Utility

SQLdb Utility 06/24/2005 09:43 PM

AutoShareServer Utility

AutoShareServer Utility 07/15/2004 01:29 AM

The SIDGen Utility

The SIDGen Utility 08/03/2004 06:20 PM

IPConfig Utility

IPConfig Utility 07/05/2004 09:37 AM

Spector spy utility comes to Mac OS X

Spector spy utility comes to Mac OS X 11/17/2003 04:14 PM
Spectorsoft has begun shipping Spector for OS X, a utility that records just about everything that happens on a computer. It automatically takes periodic screenshots of a Power PC-based Mac and saves those screenshots to a local or network drive for later viewing. You can set it up to have screenshots taken every few seconds or every few minutes.

The Utility of Consultants

The Utility of Consultants 06/18/2004 09:35 AM

A friend of mine sent me this joke today. Pretty funny.

A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure. Why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored.

He then accesses a Micrsoft SQL Server database through an ODBC-connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're an IT consultant," says the cowboy.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered the cowboy "You showed up here even though nobody called you, you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you don't know anything about my business."

"Now give me back my dog."

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The Utility Basics

The Utility Basics 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
CEO: Veritas' building blocks let buyers exploit own resources.

When to consider utility computing

When to consider utility computing 04/13/2004 04:53 AM
Many organizations are expanding their use of online services on a global scale, using a range of diverse computing and communications devices on an increasingly real-time basis. Their CIOs want to monitor what IT resources are being used and what they cost, and want to provide business solutions rather than manage systems integration. These dynamics are the fundamental drivers for utility computing, a technology platform where computing, storage, applications, and network resources are available as needed, and where customers are billed on a pay-per-use basis. The vision of utility computing is to access information services in a fashion similar to those provided by telephone, cable TV, or electric utilities.

BeetleStats Utility

BeetleStats Utility 03/31/2005 12:11 AM
First release coming soon

GetENV Utility

GetENV Utility 05/14/2004 06:11 PM

New md5 hash utility

New md5 hash utility 03/14/2005 06:11 PM
New, easy to use md5 source and utility released tonight on SourceForge: http://toogles.sourceforge.net/. If you have a C compiler handy, you can cut and paste a single source file and you are on your way.

Utility misconceptions

Utility misconceptions 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
It's time to disabuse people of the notion that utility computing is stuff that comes out of a socket in the wall, just ...

Binary diff utility 1.0.4

Binary diff utility 1.0.4 02/15/2004 02:30 PM
A diff & patch utility for binary files.

Sync Bookmarks Utility

Sync Bookmarks Utility 12/11/2003 05:04 PM
Version 0.8.1 Released

Maverick MP3 Management Utility

Maverick MP3 Management Utility 12/13/2003 01:54 PM
Maverick Initial Source Release

The SQL Data Sizer Utility

The SQL Data Sizer Utility 04/20/2004 03:12 AM

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