Wednesday, June 30 2004
More on the Housing Bubble^H^H^H^H^H^HMarket
HSBC has apparently been indiscreet enough to call it a bubble, but I can’t find the actual report (“The U.S. Housing Bubble — The case for a home-brewed hangover.”). Anyone...
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SOAP: Protocol or Format?
Way back when the XML Protocol Working Group started kicking around, Henrik and I had a long-running, low-level “discusssion” about whether SOAP was a protocol or a format. Henrik won,...
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Monday, June 28 2004
Social Security
If you work in the United States or intend to retire there, grab yourself a copy of today’s Wall Street Journal, which contains a special section that covers this topic...
Wednesday, June 23 2004
XML Language Bindings Done Right
John Schneider was in the office last week and gave me a demo of something he’s been working on for a while, E4X — by far one of the coolest...
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Wednesday, June 16 2004
What?
Check out the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group; it looks like our last, best hope for extending the browser platform to grow the Web....
Monday, June 14 2004
Use Cases for Web Description Formats
One thing about Web description formats that hasn’t seen much discussion yet is how people intend to use them. The WSDL Working Group has a Usage Scenarios document and a...
Saturday, June 5 2004
Extreme URL Scraping and Debugging
Because Web sites often don’t make information available to us in the way we’d like, we have to bring the mountain to Mohammed and scrape screens. I’ve played around with...
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Send Wiki and Comment Spammers a Message
Netcraft reports that “Search Engine Optimisers” are unable to resist the siren call of spamming. Digging a little deeper, it turns out that this is part of a little contest...