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Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Friday, June 30 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, June 24 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...

Thursday, June 22 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...

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Tuesday, June 20 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...

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Friday, June 9 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...

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