Thursday, August 26 2004
HTTP Authentication and Forms
It's no secret that HTTP authentication isn't used as often as it should be.
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Wednesday, August 25 2004
“It seems that the housing party is over”
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article, “Hot Housing Market Simmers Down.” I can’t reference it directly because I’m not a subscriber, but it basically notes that, according to the...
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Saturday, August 21 2004
sparta.py 0.5: RDF made easy
Version 0.5 of sparta.py is now available; with this release, it's roughly feature-complete.
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Thursday, August 19 2004
On Jargon and Applicability
Alfred Marshall, who is credited with turning economics from a sideline to a proper discipline of its own, had this to say: (1) Use mathematics as a shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done.... (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important in real life.
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Sunday, August 8 2004
Preliminary Experimentation Indicates...
Baileys Irish Cream (2 measures) Kahlúa (3 measures) Macadamia nut liquor, or dark rum (e.g., Myer’s) (1 measure) Coconut Milk (4 measures) Cream, or half and half (3 measures) Banana...
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Resistance is Futile
Bill points out the inevitability of the Pythonification of the world. I couldn’t agree more; if you listen to the whispers in the halls, all of the old objections are...
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Thursday, August 5 2004
The ‘Document’ in Document-Oriented Messaging
(Another instalment in “XML Heresies.”) One of the foundations of most vendors’ approach to Web services is called document-oriented messaging. This is the notion that interoperability is improved by describing...
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ComputerSpeakerPhone
Oh LazyWeb, please give me software that lets me use my Powerbook as a Bluetooth speakerphone…...
Monday, August 2 2004
The Age Gets RSS Feeds
Melbourne’s The Age now has RSS feeds available — hooray! I’ve been scraping them and bugging the staff for a while, so it’s nice to see that Fairfax (now “Fairfax...