Monday, March 29 2004
Python Just Got a Whole Lot Cooler
OK, so I know they’ve been around for a while, but I haven’t really got into Python’s metaclasses until just now, because I’ve been… well… busy. This excellent presentation about...
Behind the Scenes at Your (very) Local Music Store
Aaron Swartz has started to document the iTunes Music Store; this is a good example of a non-browser, cross-platform application reusing HTTP. It would be interesting to see the interface...
Sunday, March 28 2004
Growing the Web
Ian Hickson is thinking about client-side technologies (scroll down a bit). Some of his ideas resonated; Sortable tree views and list views with rich formatting. Do a search on eBay,...
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Tuesday, March 23 2004
XGrid and BEEP
I just stumbled across Apple’s new preview of XGrid, their ad hoc clustering technology. It’s got lots of cool features, like discovery via Rendezvous (aka ZeroConf), a job control dashboard,...
Monday, March 22 2004
Thoughts on a Suburban Nation
Interested in living in actual communities, rather than subdivisions or “pods”? Tired of spending most of your life in a car? I’ve been getting a lot of books from the...
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Wednesday, March 17 2004
Outage in the Web: Server Configuration
In an otherwise excellent article, Jon Udell blames the lack of one-click subscribe in syndication formats on lack of vision; How users will interact with the formats and APIs is...
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Wednesday, March 10 2004
Google Spam Redux
Someone calling themselves Scott Wiseman has started sending messages to the HTTP-WG mailing list. Although anyone has a right to make on-topic posts to the list, Scott is stretching it;...
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Sunday, March 7 2004
The Problem With Infosets
An interesting issue poked its head up at the W3C Technical Plenary last week. XML Protocol (known as SOAP to mere mortals) is defined in terms of XML Infosets —...
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Friday, March 5 2004
The Powerbook is Dead; Long Live the Powerbook
I’ve just got back from a two-week business trip, during which my 15” Titanium Powerbook showed increasing signs of shaking off this mortal coil. Specifically, the bottom 1/3 of the...
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Monday, March 1 2004
Atom Theme Song?
This just popped up on the iTunes “new releases” list. I think we’re going to see some Atom-related products called “Tomato.”...
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