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S5: Simple Standards-based Slide Show System

Basically, write some markup, apply a stylesheet, and you have a presentation in a box.

I also added a Present This bookmarklet that opens the current page in a full page frame with no toolbars/menubar etc, so you just hit F11 to view fullscreen.

Pretty sweet.

Maybe you’ve noted the new poll in the sidebar. I’ll replicate the question here for your perusal.

Ok, let’s say you logged into a web service via XML, and one of the responses back was an integer for a bitfield indicating possible permissions. What would you do?

1. parse the string into an int, set individual flags in an object that could be checked later with CanExport(), IsAdmin(), etc.
2. parse the string into an int, write bit checks into those same methods
3. write an accessor for the whole int value and check each bitflag every time you need to
4. write an accessor for the string value, reparse it into an int every time you check the access flag, and then use % to check for bitflags instead of &

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to top that.

For being totally awesome and easy to configure and install, building support for SSL, and having a debian package available when I needed it: Dovecot! Congratulations, you’re my open source project of the week!