Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon

Sean McGrath's Weblog.

Saturday, July 12, 2003
    Fredrik Lundh on REST vs. RPC
Fredrik knows a thing or two about RPC.

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Thursday, July 10, 2003
    Mac OSX (Panther) to use Python 2.3
Excellent. Oh, and Guido is moving to California. Interesting times.


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    RSS now back on line (I think)
Thanks to Sam Pedroni for pointing out that my RSS feed was out of date. Sure enough, when I checked blogger, it had been turned off. A blip in the recent upgrade I suspect. I get a few javascript errors in the new UI for blogger but then I get them on a lot of sites :-)

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Tuesday, July 08, 2003
    Interesting new Java technology from fellow Irish company
JCoverage looks interesting. A developer I know told me this evening that it had shown up numerous "interesting" things about the application he is working on.


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    Got a computer, can you write software, want money?
Check out the Zimbu award.


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    On Simplicity
APIs shield you from complexity right? Try this.
The Zen of the web is to realise the heights we can reach with nothing more complex than URIs, a small handfull of operations (verbs) and a sprinkling of data.
(Thanks to Mike Champion for pointing me at Mark's post.


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    e-europe awards
The Inter-agecy messaging Service (IAMS) we in Propylon built for Reach has recieved an honourable mention at The E-Europe Awards.


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Monday, July 07, 2003
    Its all about dataflows
Jon Udell in typically insightful form : "XML data flows and active intermediaries fundamentally alter the IT political landscape". Indeed.

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    Pipelining to connect IT infrastructure
Phil Windley on pipelining. PropelX for example:-).



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    Type checking and techie control
Bruce Ekel on data typing.

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    Filtering SPAM with SpamBayes
Windows users who are not using Outlook may like to know that SpamBayes can be set up to work with any e-mail client on Windows. (Outlook users have a fully blown install program available to them via http://spambayes.sourceforge.net). Get the details here.

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    BEEP Poem
An amusing BEEP Poem.

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