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Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Tuesday, February 24 2009

Cobbler / children / shoes / etc.

Rob Sayre points out that this blog still doesn’t show a preference for Atom, embarrassingly enough. I know that at one point I had a transition plan, and started...

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The FSF, IETF and Use Patents

Over the past few weeks the Free Software Foundation has had its knickers in a twist about TLS authentication — specifically, its patent encumbrance; That patent in question is...

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Caching When You Least Expect it

There’s a rule of thumb about when a HTTP response can be cached; the Caching Tutorial says: If the response’s headers tell the cache not to keep it, it...

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Wednesday, February 18 2009

Stop it with the X- Already!

Sometimes, it seems like every time somebody has a great idea for a new HTTP header, media type, or pretty much any other protocol element, they do the same...

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