“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Thursday, 30 June 2005
So, this week was my first JavaOne. It felt like most other industry conferences; an exhibition floor, free lunches, good technical sessions, and so forth. The big news this year was Microsoft; they had quite a few MSFT people...
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Monday, 27 June 2005
I don’t talk much about it here, but I’m honoured to be the Chair of the W3C Web Services Addressing Working Group. This is something of an experiment for the W3C, so I gave an update on its progress...
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Thursday, 23 June 2005
As you might guess, I’m not too keen on buying a house at the moment, due to what I (and others) perceive to be a bubble in prices. That’s a situation that will undoubtedly correct itself in the long...
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Monday, 20 June 2005
This week the Economist continues casting doubt upon the notion that housing prices will continue going up, up, up: This boom is unprecedented in terms of both the number of countries involved and the record size of house-price gains....
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Tuesday, 14 June 2005
Or, What’s Wrong with XInclude? QNames are evil (at least in content), so I never really liked the WSDL convention of using them to name and refer to constructs. It makes much more sense to refer to things on the...
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