Friday, April 29 2005
Questions Leading to a Web Description Format
A while back, I published a series of entries (1,2,3,4) about would-be Web Description Formats, with the intent of figuring out which (if any) is suitable, or whether a...
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Data Modeling and Abstraction
Today’s release of Tiger includes a new but little-discussed framework for developers, CoreData. What’s most interesting to me is its similarities — and differences — to SDO, IBM and...
Sunday, April 24 2005
Personalised RSS and Cookie Sharing
Should cookies be shared between your RSS aggregator and your Web browser? If they were, sites would be able to automatically personalise the feeds you subscribe to; would people...
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Syntax for Distributed Computing
XML is arguably one of the bigger things to come onto industry’s radar for a while, and as a result programming languages (e.g., ECMAScript, Comega, Java) are changing to...
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Tuesday, April 12 2005
Try This RSS Experiment
Way back when I put the first Atom drafts together, I included a placeholder for a section that I hoped would allow reconstruction of feed state. Presently, this often...
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Sunday, April 10 2005
Coffee, Tea, or Shove that Phone Right Up Your…?
As if flying wasn’t enough of a trial already, you may have heard that the FCC is considering lifting their ban on mobile phone use in airplanes. While the...
Tempest in a Teacup, Counterclockwise*
Those who have been preoccupied by Two Funerals and a Wedding may have missed news of a developing diplomatic crisis in Australia. Sir Michael Somare, the Prime Minister of Papua...
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Sunday, April 3 2005
A Call to OPTIONS
Web metadata discovery is not a new topic, and one on which the final word has not been spoken. However, one of the most basic means of discovering something...
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Friday, April 1 2005
Can Somebody Explain to Me...
RDF has a simple, usable, universal model; everything’s nodes and arcs, so it avoids the problems of the Infoset, which IMO are brought by its complexity and special cases....
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