Thursday, October 30 2003
DIME is dead.
'cause Gudge says so, and as we all know, Gudge is always right....
Tuesday, October 21 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...
Friday, October 17 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"....
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...
Tuesday, October 7 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,...
Friday, October 3 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...
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...
Thursday, October 2 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...
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...
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