“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Tuesday, 29 April 2003
Sam mentions dc:date; that's what I was thinking, except that 'date' on its own is pretty useless. As Bill points out, dcterms gives you different date semantics. dcterms:issued seems to match RSS's pubDate most closely, while as far as I...
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Monday, 28 April 2003
Anybody else notice how you can use a Wiki like a Semantic Web engine? For example, define a WikiName, say PersonThing. Only use the PersonThing WikiName on pages that identify... person things! You're basically saying a :PersonThing . OK, it's...
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Monday, 28 April 2003
[ I tried to post this as a comment on Sam's blog, but I think there may still be transitional issues over there... ] Overlord? COOL... I don't think I've ever been the overlord of anything. Seriously, as Sam says,...
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Monday, 28 April 2003
Amazon sent my wife a nice, juicy bit of SPAM this morning. "Get the Amazon.com Platinum Visa card!" This despite her having her "Communication Preferences" set to not allow anything but legal notices. Are credit card offers legal notices, suddenly?...
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Sunday, 27 April 2003
For discussion: RSS history module (the eventual result of this)....
Saturday, 26 April 2003
For those who have been helping, it's alive, has been for almost a week, but I still want to do a bit more documentation, hunt down a few bugs, and get some more unit tests down. Unfortunately, I need more...
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Thursday, 24 April 2003
It's not necessary to lament the lack of ETags on generated Web pages; cgi_buffer automagically generates and validates them for Perl, Python and PHP scripts. Yes, I keep on shamelessly plugging this one, but the question keeps on coming up......
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Thursday, 24 April 2003
OK, here's the deal. As previously reported, we got the nifty Ericsson phones that come with free cameras. They're Internet-capable. The next obvious step is to hook it up to a blog, and presto! You've got photoblog! You get to...
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Wednesday, 23 April 2003
Anitra and I have taken to watching What Not To Wear. Yes, it's a fashion show, but it's probably the most non-American show on right now; very refreshing and wicked good fun to watch. Contrast with the US version -...
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Tuesday, 22 April 2003
Tim says thatRSS Needs Fixing. Right on! Some people are intereted in endless tinkering with RSS - I'm not. I'm interested in putting it on everybody's desktop, and making it transparent to them. This means we need better interop. How...
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Tuesday, 22 April 2003
Sam proposes some changes to RSS 2.0 regarding namespaces. My first question was, "why?" but upon reading his next post, I get it. The Big Problem with namespaces the first time around was that it broke some software, which Dave...
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Saturday, 19 April 2003
RSS.py has been revved; fixed some problems with addItem (now takes an index argument to say where to add the item; default is first - used to be last), and a few other tweaks. Yes, I am aware of the...
Friday, 18 April 2003
Don's worried about the glaciating influences of having a stable spec for RSS 2.0. I couldn't disagree more. Like Don, RSS is my hobby; has been since about 1999, when I started the Syndication list. I watched and occasionally pitched...
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Friday, 18 April 2003
RSS needs a bit of stablity (as I've often said), so I've gotten off of my duff and done something about it. For your interest, an Internet-Draft of RSS 2.0. As it says, this is RSS 2.0, as Dave has...
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Thursday, 17 April 2003
There seems to be a a lot of new blogs showing up from inside companies... I can only wonder if it's becoming the microserf equivalent of flair....
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Tuesday, 8 April 2003
LiveHTTPHeaders for Mozilla is the best HTTP header sniffer I've seen yet; up till now, I've been using WebTee, but for *most* purposes, this is much better. Enjoy....