“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Tuesday, 29 July 2003
Ted Leung points out that caching PUT (and other WebDAV methods) would suit Subversion - probably the most interesting WebDAV application under open development - quite well. The only thing he says that I disagree with (and it might just...
Tuesday, 29 July 2003
Mark Baker is the latest in a series to weigh in on the TAG issue regarding what a HTTP URI can identify. I haven't followed the debate closely, but it appears that the arguments haven't changed substantively. Another way of...
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Saturday, 26 July 2003
If we WebDAV-enable Web applications, people will be able to interact with them like filesystems. To blog something, you'd be able to write an entry in the text editor of your choice, and then drag-and-drop them into what MSFT has...
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Saturday, 26 July 2003
One of my personal background tasks in the last couple of months has been finding sample applications to excercise Tarawa with. Although my load is high and I've only got a single processor - me - I'm still trying to...
Saturday, 26 July 2003
I spent more time today saying "dude" than I ever have before (proportionally), because I took a little drive. As you may have guessed, Antibes left me a little cold, despite the weather; I'm not a big fan of seaside...
Friday, 25 July 2003
Mark Pilgrim is starting to think about issues surrounding the transport, transfer and general moving around of the Format Formerly Known as Echo (nee Pie). This feels suspiciously like a profile of HTTP. We tried that a little bit in...
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Friday, 25 July 2003
Pros * Makes everybody jealous when you say you're going there * Great beaches and the Alps nearby * Sailing! Cons * Very hot and humid, especially when you're used to weatherless northern California * Full of tourists in high...
Friday, 25 July 2003
Adam Bosworth gives us a small taste of his thoughts re: Web services, with a promise of more. Glad to see the writer's block has broken!...
Monday, 21 July 2003
Back when we were exploring the possibity of a profile of RSS, I set up a wiki on the topic and promptly let it run wild, to see what would happen. Although most people have moved on to other approaches...
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Friday, 18 July 2003
Dave Winer has announced a few changes to RSS, which seem positive at first glance, but need a little closer inspection. It appears that the copyright for RSS 2.0 is now in the hands of Harvard Law school, and maintained...
Tuesday, 15 July 2003
I'm very happy to say that, after using Windows on the desktop for about a year, and various flavours of Unix on the desktop for about six years, I've Switched back to the Mac (which I happily used for about...
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Thursday, 10 July 2003
Adam Curry explains how he's bought placement in RSS aggregators. Trouble is, RSS isn't universally supported, as evidenced by the echo project, and he feels cheated. Now, I'd understand this if RSS were a well-defined standard, backed by a broad...