“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Sunday, 23 April 2006
The Economist gives a heads-up [subscription required] about the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s plans for housing derivatives; In the next few weeks, the CME is likely to open trading in financial futures and options linked to American house prices. Investors...
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Sunday, 23 April 2006
It’s official; I’ve got a last-minute slot at XTech, talking about all things Web caching....
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Thursday, 20 April 2006
Back at the W3C Technical Plenary, I argued that Working Groups need to concentrate on making more Web-friendly specifications. Here’s an example of one such lapse causing security problems on today’s Web. Safety in HTTP HTTP methods have a...
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006
I’m quickly coming up on three months as a Yahoo, and a bunch of people have been asking me how things are going, as well as what I’m doing. In a nutshell, I’m having more fun than should be...
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Friday, 14 April 2006
A friend in the trenches put me on to the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Paging through the quotes, there are a few that are especially apropos; [X-wings are approaching Death Star] Wedge Antilles (Red 2):...
Thursday, 13 April 2006
According to ABC Online (that's Australian Broadcasting Corporation to the Americans out there): Two Melbourne men have been elected to the Italian Parliament. It is the first time Italians living overseas have been allowed to vote and stand for...
Thursday, 13 April 2006
I’ve had a lyric running through my head for the last day or so, thanks to a couple of bugs. I am thinking it’s a sign that the freckles / In our eyes are mirror images and when / We...
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Sunday, 9 April 2006
Most discussion you see about the housing market these days tends to focus on a) whether there’s a bubble (reliable sources say yes, at least in many places) and b) when and how it will pop (it already is,...
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Friday, 7 April 2006
It’s become axiomatic in some circles — especially in WS-* land, as well as in many other uses of XML — that the preferred (or only) means of offering extensibility is through URI-based namespaces, along with a flag to...
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Thursday, 6 April 2006
I’m a little confused by Mark Baker’s stance regarding SOAP; he seems to encourage the Web services world to use SOAP on top of HTTP in a fashion compatible with HTTP. As I asked Chris Ferris recently, what’s the...
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