MicroID Development

More small fixes to reflect list discussion regarding the scope of applicability for MicroIDs in HTML meta tags and class attributes. Check out the latest version here.

Eran Sandler has contributed C#/.NET tools to the MicroID codebase.  He writes:

It is a bit more generic and can be used with any hashing algorithm currently supported in .NET (SHA1, SHA256, MD5, etc).  The zip contains the class MicroID with a static function to either generate an SHA1 based MicroID (the default) or specify the name of the hashing algorithm.

It also converts the text to ASCII (so the hashing will work the same as in Python, PHP, etc).

Thank you to Eran.  .

Two recent contributions to the MicroID codebase:

• Eran Sandler has completed a MicroID implementation in Python. .
• Paco Nathan has completed a MicroID implementation in Java. .

Thanks to these folks for their contributions. This means we’ve got MicroID generators ready to roll in perl, python, ruby and java. Nice stuff! If you’ve created some code for MicroID that you would like to share, please drop us a line and we’ll happily post about it.

Version 0.2 of the MicroID spec has been published here (mostly minor corrections). Feedback is welcome on the mailing list.

Our documentation guy has written version 0.1 of the MicroID specification and it is available here. Send feedback to the mailing list.