Saturday, February 15, 2003
Do you live/holiday/visit Enniscrone/Killala? Would you use an 'always-on' wireless broadband internet connection there if it were available?
If so, send me you e-mail and I'll add you to the list. We are working with Liam Caffrey in Killala, gauging interest with a view to seeking funding to make it happen.
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Friday, February 14, 2003
They have taken it and reshaped it in their own image. All is lost. All is lost.
XML is just an data/object serialization format. What an incredible waste of a glorious opportunity to advance the state of the art in application integration.
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Thursday, February 13, 2003
The rise and rise of reliable messaging
More evidence (if any were needed), that next big thing in Web Infrastructure will
be reliable messaging.
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Is Guido van Rossum confused about 'typing'?
No, is my opinion but judge for yourself.
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Tim Bray sits on the fence about XMLBeans
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200302/msg00431.html
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003
The opposite of strong typing is not weak typing - its runtime typing
Guido van Rossum points out in this article that Python's typing is not "weak" (being the opposite
of "strong") its runtime. A very different kettle of fish.
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Asphyxiation via tight integration
Tight integration? Just say no!.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Taken a good picture lately?
[via scripting.com] Taken a good picture lately?
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Monday, February 10, 2003
Turtles all the way up
Clay Shirky nails it. "Turtles all the way up". Brilliant!
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Sunday, February 09, 2003
Power laws and blogs
Read this piece by Clay Shirky and, if you haven't yet read it, get yourself a copy of LINKED by Barabasi. A really interesting read.
A hobby horse of mine is that power laws apply to xml markup too - at least in document centric applications. Some years back I ran some tests on SGML/XML corpora that indicated a power law distribution of elements. At its crudest, 20 per cent of the available element types in the DTDs accounted for 80 per cent of the elements occuring in the instances.
Also, related (slightly) is Lies, damned lies and markup.
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