I was looking for a CLI script that validates a whole site for me, but I couldn't find one that would work without installation issues. So I hacked together an example shell script that does the job for me by downloading the whole site and then running the files through a validation.

Part of my current project is to transform thousands of static XML files, all interlinked and some of them referencing others as data subset that I need for the transformation. Time to have a quick look at XInclude and XLink.

Sometimes I'm really getting annoyed about the lack of control that XSLT sometimes gives about what target formats are supported and what output it generates

For various reasons I seem to do much more reading on new techniques and web stuff lately, and today brought up some for me fascinating finds that I wanted to share.

Over at OneNaught Anup Shah gives some hints about how to utilize Events to make your jQuery plugins ready for unit testing.

At the moment I am looking for a nice way to convert HTML tables into stats. I am thinking along the lines of SIFR, where flash replaces markup and displays dynamic data. But first I need something that displays dynamic stats ...

James, the sys admin guy here at Opta, where I am working at the moment, brought this up, and it is one of those neat tricks that can make life very easy but I still didn't know about.

The last week was full of events for two of us. While Matthias has just started the most amazing start-up one can think of, I went past my use-by date to hit the magic number: 30.

If you think that Firebug is the end-all of http monitoring, have a good look at Charles. Jonathan Snook wrote a nice review about it that I'd like to share with you.