Thursday, August 28 2003
Frank Chu update
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...
Monday, August 25 2003
The 'i' stands for 'idiot'
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...
Sunday, August 24 2003
Atomic Draft
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...
Saturday, August 23 2003
Registering Media Types
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...
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Thursday, August 21 2003
HTTP Performance
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...
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Monday, August 18 2003
Web Services
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]...
Tuesday, August 12 2003
WebCapture
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...
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Monday, August 11 2003
Photos and metadata
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...
Structured URIs
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...
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Monday, August 4 2003
iDisk Offline
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...
RSSJobs
RSSJobs looks interesting; hopefully, we'll see more of these "non-traditional" uses of RSS as time goes by....
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Saturday, August 2 2003
NewAirplane
Boy, I'd sure like some of whatever the Boeing folks are smoking. [ via The Economist, print edition, pg. 8-9 ]...