mnot’s Web log

Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Saturday, November 26 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...

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Wednesday, November 23 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...

Tuesday, November 22 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...

Friday, November 18 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...

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Monday, November 7 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...

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