Mr. de hÓra has an interesting post about solving the one-click subscription issue. I think he is wrong to write off the browser. It seems to me that feeds are best suited to providing sets of data which change regularly or are useful more than once and require little user interaction to construct. That tends [...]
Yesterday I noticed that there is a No Fluff Just Stuff stop planned for Denver in November. Then I notice that even though it is listed in the tour stops there is not a page for that stop. In the past this would probably not have bothered me, I mean if they do not have [...]
I just finished what my company calls a “tour of duty”. A tour of duty amounts to being an operations employee for 4 hours. You show up at 8 am because that is when the day shift starts. A senior ops person shows you what to do and then they sit behind you while you [...]
Johannes Ernst posted an interesting comparison of REST vs SOAP (via: James Governor). He makes an excellent point that SOAP URIs point at the type, rather than an instance, of a service. I do not think that the fact that there will be more REST URIs means that this space is more innovative. I am [...]
I am really intrigued by the concept of Microformats. I love the idea of “presentable and parsable” formats. I am a little disappointed, however, that there is not a microformat for describing feed subscriptions. The de facto standard for subscription lists is OPML. I am not sure how this happened but it does not seem [...]
Apparently, Firefox 1.5 will included something call E4X. It is an extension that supports easier manipulation of XML. Kurt Cagle has a very nice introduction, Objectifying XML – E4X for Firefox 1.1. Suddenly, ECMAScript has better tools for dealing with XML than any other environment I know. Those tools will certainly make a lot XML [...]
The last couple of days I have been working on a little tool written in PHP, HTML and CSS. It is your basic, simple data-driven web application. Nothing particularly technically challenging, but it was unbelievably fun to write. After using Java almost exclusively for the last several months I had forgotten just how much fun [...]
