mnot’s Web log

“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Sunday, October 30 2005

Frameworks

Stumbled across this, from Ian Bicking; My problem with a lot of MVC web frameworks is that they are really a way of codifying one developers internal thinking about a...

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Wednesday, October 26 2005

Calendar <-> Feed?

Does anybody know of a program or service that will look at a calendar file (e.g., vCalendar, iCalendar, hCalendar) and publish the entries on it as an RSS feed, where...

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Sunday, October 23 2005

Emulating W3C ,tools with mod_rewrite

I don't know if this has already been done (it's not exactly rocket science), but for the benefit of those who want to emulate the W3C's cool ,tools functions with...

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Saturday, October 22 2005

Why Just GET and POST?

Why is it that Web browsers — Amaya excluded — don’t support PUT and DELETE? After all, if there are enough VCs foolish enough to part with their money for...

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Wednesday, October 19 2005

OPTIONS Getting Better

Roy Fielding has just closed a bug that’s been around since 1996, and which I’ve previously lamented here; The block has now been deleted from all active branches of httpd...

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Tuesday, October 18 2005

XSLT for the Rest of the Web

I’ve raved before about how useful the XSLT document() function is, once you get used to it. However, the stars have to be aligned just so to use it; the...

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Wednesday, October 5 2005

2.0

Does anybody else chortle quietly when they see “2.0-this” and “2.0-that”? It’s getting absurd; first we had “Web 2.0” (never mind that this term has been used for years...

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