mnot’s Web log

Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Sunday, April 23 2006

Housing Derivatives

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...

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XTech

It’s official; I’ve got a last-minute slot at XTech, talking about all things Web caching....

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Thursday, April 20 2006

DOM vs. Web

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...

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Tuesday, April 18 2006

Three Months at Yahoo!

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....

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Friday, April 14 2006

Another WS-*

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...

Thursday, April 13 2006

Viva Italia!

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...

Bug Syncronicity

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 /...

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Sunday, April 9 2006

Looking for a Big House? Wait!

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...

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Friday, April 7 2006

Are Namespaces (and mU) Necessary?

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...

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Thursday, April 6 2006

What good is SOAP to HTTP?

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...

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