Thursday, 30 October 2003
DIME is dead.
'cause Gudge says so, and as we all know, Gudge is always right....
October 2003 Archives
Tuesday, 21 October 2003
You say tree, I say URI...
I can't help but wonder if what Adam wants could be had using plain old HTTP by just defining a new format that is nothing but a list of links to stuff that's in-scope for a query. That way, when...
Friday, 17 October 2003
ROTFL
Love your work, Banksy. A statement from Tate Britain said that a man "had left a personal possession in one of the galleries"....
Friday, 17 October 2003
Cross-Platform DRM and other artefacts of Hell freezing over
Now that hell has frozen over, it's interesting to speculate how far Apple will dip their toes in, and what their market opportunities are. Case in point, Tristan Louis considers the DRM built into Apple's iTunes, and the implications of...
Tuesday, 7 October 2003
Humboldt Fog
Saute Wednesday has exposed one of our vices... ashed goat's cheese is like nothing else on earth. These days it's Humboldt Fog (from the Mollie Stone's around the corner; hell, there are the remnants of a $4.69 chunk in the...
Friday, 3 October 2003
RSS-Data and Web services
Jeremy Allaire is writing about something he calls RSS-Data, and I must say it touches on a lot of interesting points. A few; data encoding - Jeremy's view of SOAP Encoding (aka "Section 5 Encoding") seems to be contrary to...
Friday, 3 October 2003
Loose Coupling, Late Binding and REST
Mark Baker says that REST is SOA + late binding. While I see the truth in this, I think it's pretty orthogonal, and it's not that compelling for most SOAish folks. This is because their use cases are machines talking...
Thursday, 2 October 2003
Modularity by reference
Many XML-based formats could benefit from using references to promote modularity. For example, imagine a catalogue format; <x:catalogue owner="Bob"> <x:widget id="foo" name="FooWidget"> <x:description>The Foo Widget</x:description> </x:widget> <x:widget id="bar" name="BarWidget"> <x:description>The Bar Widget</x:description> </x:widget> </x:catalogue> The format's designer wants to allow...
Thursday, 2 October 2003
Why do XML editors suck so much?
I'm seriously sick of using programs that call themselves "XML editors" because they colourize markup. I'm talking about XML Spy, Oxygen, BBEdit, and thousands of lesser programs. All of them are just glorified text editors - they still operate on...
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