{"id":1313,"date":"2006-10-27T22:13:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T01:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2006-10-27T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T01:21:42","slug":"dev-is-duff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Dev-is-Duff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">M<\/span>aybe I missed the big announcement, but since when are Microsoft SDKs freely available? I needed the ADO\/MDAC SDK (I get tired of reading stuff online too), et voila et la the SDK<sup>1<\/sup>. Not completely: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=5067faf8-0db4-429a-b502-de4329c8c850&#038;displaylang=en\">it&#8217;s obviously hidden behind the Windows Genuine Advantage barrier<\/a>. That said, apparently Microsoft got the hint: they <em>actually<\/em> produced a Firefox extension that does the WGA straight from within your favourite non-IE browser (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/genuine\/downloads\/faq.aspx\">faq<\/a>). But, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/Microsoft_Adds_Firefox_Support_to_WGA\/1132245902\">that&#8217;s old news too!<\/a> Yeah, yeah, yeah.\n<\/p>\n<p>WordPress 2.0.5 is out. I can hear you: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2006\/10\/205-ronan\/\">you already read that somewhere else<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/background\/halloween\/templates.html\">templates<\/a> at the CBC. I&#8217;d like somebody else to do me the CBC logo. This year no-nothing: we&#8217;ve started our annual high-tech warfare against fleas. I have this theory that the noise of my computer might scare some of the fleas.\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a weather (frost) warning in effect: it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/ns\/weather\/index.html?station=WUR&#038;style=nsFull#wwarning\">we&#8217;ll get below zero temperatures tonight<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><strong>Update:<\/strong> How about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/article.php\/CylonOLantern\">real Cylon pumpkin thing<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/literalbarrage.org\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/24\/theres-regular-cool-and-then-theres-cylon-jack-o-lantern-cool\/\">Literal Barrage<\/a>)?<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> Yuck. Most of the API is described in Lingua Visualicus Basicus Horiblus. I just punched my nose.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I missed the big announcement, but since when are Microsoft SDKs freely available? I needed the ADO\/MDAC SDK (I get tired of reading stuff online too), et voila et la the SDK1. Not completely: it&#8217;s obviously hidden behind the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1313\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}