Saturday, April 12, 2003
XML and Aliens
"If SETI@home works, for example, we'll need libraries for communicating with aliens. Unless of course
they are sufficiently advanced that they already communicate in XML."
- Paul Graham, The Hundred Year Language
The quote is towards the end, but the entire essay is well worth a read
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There is XML support, and there is XML support
Microsoft limits XML in Office 2003.
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XML-compliance don't mean nowt unless the XML is *intended* for direct processing by software outside of the system that orginally created it.
WordML for example.
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Friday, April 11, 2003
Forget Lord of the Rings. Forget Harry Potter. Forget Chicago. THIS is the movie you *must* see
A missive from Clyde Hatter informed me of this, "must see", movie event of the decade : The Technical Writer (2003).
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Thursday, April 10, 2003
How to run a sucessful website
Four rules
- Offload the work
- Aggregate, don't duplicate
- Zero beaurocracy means great speed
- Don't disscuss business
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Python/XML stuff from the archives - assembled by Uche Ogbuji
Uche Ogbuji has assembled some stuff from the archives of Python's XML-SIG. I like Greg Stein's HTML-is-a-hierarch-of-objects approach which shows up the dual text/data structure nature of markup rather well.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Weapons of Math Destruction - Sarnoff, Metcalf and Reed. Laws of the hyperjungle
David Reed explains why the Internet makes a lot of existing business models choke on their cornflakes.
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I'm a LAMP-head
I'm a LAMP-head. At least some of the time.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Printers, Coffee Machines and Razor Blades
In the ITWorld archives, Printers, Coffee Machines and Razor Blades.
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Monday, April 07, 2003
Pareto Peristaltic Peripatetic Perambulations of a Propylate
As I wonder around the blogsphere, I link to things, and they link back. Every time I look at my blog's hits I'm reminded of the 80/20 rule and scale free networks etc. etc. This guy in particular, has a lot to answer for.
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An interesting Data Pump
This is perfect for XML processing you know. I've always wanted a way of treating data processing as a form of logistics. Pneumatic pumping of XML instances through transforming pipes. I can see it all now...
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Sunday, April 06, 2003
Beautifully illustrated intro to Unicode
Tim Bray's visual introduction to Unicode.
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Nobody takes me seriously
I'm getting disheartened at the number of ideas I have floated in the XML community that do not get taken seriously. Look at this for five years worth of ignored ideas? What gives? Is there a pattern here?
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