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3 October 2003

In an unusual outage, this site was down for about six hours this morning. Normal service has now resumed. In other news …

Russell Beattie has some interesting conversation going on currently regarding Google Adsense. It appears that Google are pulling the rug from under the feet of many honest users, in tactics reminiscent of PayPal. Even more interesting is the discussion of RSS-Data, but be prepared to get yourself into a pretty geeky mindset to fully appreciate it.

Jason Kottke asks you to get your docks out for the lads.

This weekend I’m slaving to finish off a chapter for the an update of the popular Dynamic Dreamweaver MX. Writing for books is a lot like cross-country running. It seems like a fun idea before you start, is absolute hell as you’re doing it, and its immensely satisfying once you’ve finished. I still wouldn’t recommend it, however.

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Danilo: Who’s publishing this version of the book, I know that Glasshaus is out of the picture. Apress, Wrox, Self Published on toilet paper rolls?
  2. § Drew: It’s being published by Apress, Danilo. However, I’m not sure if it will be branded as Apress of Glasshaus.
  3. § Rachel: I kind of like the toilet paper rolls idea ... I wonder how many toilet paper rolls would be required to print a book
  4. § Mike: A good family size (12?) rolls should do it. I leave programming books in our toilet anyways so read and dispose would be quite good.

    Although getting to the index would be a nightmare...

    I think you’ve got something here though. Tutorials on a roll. Beats those ”X in 24 hours” series.
  5. § Drew: ”Dreamweaver MX in 24 Dumps”?

    Hmm .. I’m not sure it’d catch on.
  6. § Jesse Rodgers:
    ”Dreamweaver MX in 24 Dumps”?


    hahaha... I think that would be a very appropriate title, on so many levels.
  7. § Drew: I’m glad this is a classy weblog ;)

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Caburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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