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November 2005 Archives

Saturday, 26 November 2005

Leveraging the Web: Caching

The first in an occasional series about the real-world benefits of REST and the Web architecture, as applied to HTTP. I used to work for a fairly huge company as a Web/Internet guru. One day, I got sucked into...

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Wednesday, 23 November 2005

Travel Notes: Japan

My pictures from a week in Japan are now up. This was a trip for the Addressing WG, with a day beforehand to get over jetlag, and a few days afterwards on my own time. Many thanks to Hitachi...

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Tuesday, 22 November 2005

It's Official: Blogs are Everywhere

One of the oldest continuously-run enterprises in the world (and a former employer of my wife), Oxford University Press, first publisher of the King James Bible, namesake of a punctuation mark, now has a weblog....

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Friday, 18 November 2005

TripSense

Just got an e-mail from Progressive, who want people to sign up for Tripsense; What driving habits determine whether you’re a safer driver than others? We’re trying to determine that with TripSense, Progressive’s innovative program that collects driving data...

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Monday, 7 November 2005

REST vs..?

More and more people are getting turned on to the advantages of using REST as a higher-level abstraction for networked applications, often comparing it favourably to SOAP and Web services. However, as many have pointed out, this is a...

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