Roosenmaallen.com » Microformats http://roosenmaallen.com Computers, spirituality, and the other things that make me go. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:25:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hacking with hKit http://roosenmaallen.com/2007/09/02/hacking-with-hkit/ http://roosenmaallen.com/2007/09/02/hacking-with-hkit/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:52:47 +0000 Eddie Roosenmaallen http://roosenmaallen.com/2007/09/02/hacking-with-hkit/ I’ve been using hKit recently for several projects, among them trying to figure out why Rosebleed’s user profiles won’t import at Satisfaction. In testing, I found that Technorati profiles also don’t import.

I tracked it down to two separate issues:

  1. Technorati uses DoubleClick advertising, which uses document.write() to drop new scripts into the page. This <script>-within-a-<script> seems to confuse the w3’s tidy proxy and breaks everything.
    I managed to work around this with a big ugly hack in hkit.class.php which attempts to detect the document.write() and fix the damage. It’s pretty ugly and probably pretty delicate as well, but it’s something.
    Feedback is always welcome: Modified hKit 0.5
  2. Satisfaction uses AJAX to pull the hCard info through a script on their server. The script seems to have the same shortcoming as the Microformatic tool with URLs containing a ?. This one was an easy fix on my end; I updated Rosebleed’s profile page to accept the username either from the GET string (profile.php?user=silvermoon82) or from pathinfo (profile.php/silvermoon82). The hCard fetcher works with the new format links, so all is well in the universe.
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I’ve rolled out microformat markup all over the site – user profiles are now hcard-enabled and the friendslist is marked up with hCard+XFN.
I also implemented FOAF profiles with autodiscovery, much like that provided by LiveJournal (for a cool FOAF tool, check out the FOAF Explorer).

Still in the works on the SN side is implementing OpenID for logins and order tracking, and hCard, hCard+XFN and FOAF profile-pulling.

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My aim is to gather the collective knowledge of humanity; failing that, I’d like to maintain an interesting sort of site about the things that interest me – technology [the web, social networking, microformats, DHTML, and a bunch of other buzzwords], philosophy [spirituality, the Meaning of Life, stuff like that].

I’m currently employed as a Web Application Developer at DAS Software, Inc.. I’m one of the fortunate minority who genuinely love my job – I always have a number of projects on the go to keep me interested, and I get to work in several fields at the same time.

Some of my current projects at DAS include:

  • SquashPOS
    Squash is our flagship product. It’s a web-based, multi-user point of sale system. Our main design goals are good functionality, easy-to-use, and good-looking.
  • SquashWEB
    SquashWEB is our ready-to-play e-commerce front end, which integrates seamlessly with the Squash POS system in-store.
  • HR Centric
    HR Centric is a Human Resources consultant based in Ottawa, ON. I develop and maintain their web-based HRM and HRIS software. Our clients include Bell Business Solutions, Blacks Photo Corporation, and the ACQ.
  • VerifAction
    VerifAction is a Human Resources service provider based in Boucherville, QC. DAS Software is partnered with them to develop web-based HRM and HRIS systems; specifically pre-employment (reference checks, etc.) and post-employment (exit interview) services.
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