Blog for Wednesday, 9th January 2008
09/01/2008: NetNewsWire is now free!
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09/01/2008: Mushroom and Tarragon Stuffed Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 skinless chicken breast fillets
- 4 large mushrooms
- 1 baby leek, finely sliced
- 75g ricotta or Philadelphia cream cheese
- 40g butter or margerine
- 20g dried porcini mushrooms
- small handful of tarragon, roughly chopped
- 4 cloves of smoked garlic, or 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped or crushed
- 2 tbsp mushroom ketchup (optional)
- salt & pepper
- 4 cocktail sticks
Method
Put the porcini mushrooms into a mug or cup and fill the cup with boiling water to rehydrate the dried mushrooms.
Chop the fresh mushrooms very finely (pieces should be about the size of peas) and fry them with the leek and garlic in about 30g of butter. When brown, transfer mixture to a small mixing bowl. Allow to cool slightly.
Drain the porcini mushrooms and chop them. Add the porcini mushrooms and cheese to the mushroom and leek mixture and stir together. Place in the fridge to cool and set.
Preheat an oven to 180°C. Grease a small baking try with the remaining butter.
With a sharp knife,…
09/01/2008: The Dan Brown Generator
My famous Dan Brown generator was apparently mentioned in Time Out last month.
09/01/2008: X-Blog-Name
OK, so the Trackback specification includes the ability for a pinging page to specify its article title and blog name when it sends a trackback ping. However, these fields are optional. When not present, typically the recipient of the ping will then make an HTTP request back to the pinger to determine the article title from the page’s <title> element. But there is no standardised way of determining the blog name — or more generically, because Trackback can be used by sites other than blogs — the name of the “collection of web pages”.
The following informal specification suggests a method of determining the name of the collection of documents to which a given HTML document belongs. It also provides a clear way for you to mark your own HTML documents as being part of a particular collection.
Determining the Collection for a Given Document
Attempt to find the name of the collection…