“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Thursday, 28 August 2003
As previously noted, I often pass San Francisco figure Frank Chu on the way to and from work. This morning, I noticed something new - there's a professionally-printed ad on the back of his sign, for a crepe place, with...
Monday, 25 August 2003
I got Anitra an iPod (an intensely desirable object) last week, because the new car (new to us, at least) doesn't have a CD player, and she's got a long commute. Along with an iTrip, it seemed just the ticket....
Sunday, 24 August 2003
Somehow, I've been drafted into editing the Atom syntax specification, and have just thrown up a first draft. I'm reasonably happy with the language around the requirements, but a lot more needs to be said about conformance (maybe it's all...
Saturday, 23 August 2003
I've had a fairly large and annoying bee in my bonnet for the past few months, regarding media type registration. It started buzzing when I tried (and failed) to register a media type for RSS, and has continued to...
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Thursday, 21 August 2003
I've heard several people in the industry assert that HTTP fundamentally limits the performance of applications that use it; in other words, there's a considerable disadvantage to using it, and that therefore other protocols (usually proprietary or platform-specific systems that...
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Monday, 18 August 2003
If you're lost in a sea of specs, pundits and opinions, might I suggest two very well-written, thoughtful papers: Principles of Service Oriented Integration by Sean McGrath at Propylon [pdf] Putting the "Web" in Web Services by Steve Vinoski at...
Tuesday, 12 August 2003
Here's something different. WebCapture "is a secure capture and playback system that records, in context, all web session pages that comprise an e-business transaction." "Capturing the INTENT and PROCESS is a centuries old and important standard essential in proving that...
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Monday, 11 August 2003
I love iPhoto's interface and its functionality, but the fact that the metadata is so closed is frustrating. I think I'm going to be able to import the RDFPic metadata embedded in most of my photos, with a short detour...
Monday, 11 August 2003
I just found a draft finding that the W3C TAG published about a month ago, regarding the use of metadata in URIs. This is very cool, and I especially like the emphasis on authorities’ ability to embed metadata in URIs....
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Monday, 4 August 2003
Marc Hadley points out that the version of iDisk in OSX Panther looks like it will enable offline functionality with caching; it also looks to do some synchronization. I'd really like to have a look at how they've done it....
Monday, 4 August 2003
RSSJobs looks interesting; hopefully, we'll see more of these "non-traditional" uses of RSS as time goes by....
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Saturday, 2 August 2003
Boy, I'd sure like some of whatever the Boeing folks are smoking. [ via The Economist, print edition, pg. 8-9 ]...