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June 2006 Archives

Friday, 30 June 2006

Friday Fun: Percent Encoding

If you boil down the BNF in both RFC2396 and RFC3986, path segments can contain the following characters without percent-encoding them: ALPHA DIGIT ! $ & ' ( ) * + , - . : ; = @ _ ~...

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Saturday, 24 June 2006

Welcome, Hugo!

Hugo has finally blogged the big news. He’s left one of the coolest jobs in the world — working for the W3C — to come to another one of ‘em, working for Yahoo. I’m really looking forward to continuing...

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Thursday, 22 June 2006

Bringing Back the Link - With a Twist

Recently, there’s been a resurgence for the Link element in HTML; everything from Microformats to Atom autodiscovery is using it. This isn’t surprising; as machines start processing Web documents more, it’s necessary to use hyperlinks — the foundation of...

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Tuesday, 20 June 2006

Microsoft's RESTful Robots

A friend (who shall remain anonymous) pointed me to Microsoft’s announcement today regarding their foray into robotics, of all things. My eyes glazed over until they rested upon the Microsoft Robotics Application Model; The term “REST” was originated by...

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Friday, 9 June 2006

Friday Fun: Feed Authentication with Cookies

See if your aggregator can subscribe to this feed (username/password: test/test) and post the results in comments.While you’re there, it would be interesting to know what happens if you shut down / log out of your aggregator, get back...

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