The application configuration conumdrum

In the ITWorld archives today: The application configuration conundrum. Regardless of how much you pay for a system from 0 through to a 1 followed by lots of 0's - a ridiculous amount of time and money is spent on configuration.

Blogging goes mainstream

[via scripting.com] Blogging goes mainstream

RSS Autodiscovery

A mail from Sam Ruby pointing me at RSS Autodiscovery. My template for this site now contains :
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/rss/seanmcgrath.xml"/>
thus allowing smart tools to autodiscover my RSS feed. Thanks Sam.

RSS has no verbs - again

Now that I have read more on Sam Ruby's site - particularly value of uniform interfaces and the RESTlog API, I see now that I misread his take on RSS not having any verbs. I find myself in violent agreement with Sam.
Isn't this just beautiful?.

RSS has no verbs. Is that suprising?

Sam Ruby: RSS has no verbs.
But neither does HTML or XFML or LOGPIFIMAOMSM-ML (Lump Of Green Putty, I Found In My Armpit, One Mid Summers Morning - Markup Language).
Only protocols - like HTTP - need such things. Right? A big part of the RESTian world-view is that we should not roll-our-own imperatives in our applications. We have a good mechanism for doing it out of the box - HTTP. I'm delighted RSS has no verbs :-)

A simpler RDDL

A simpler RDDL. I do hope something like this reaches collective consiousness levels. I hate traversing namespace links only to get a 404 custard pie in the face.

Javascript gets Scheme-ish stuff

Rhino doing first class continuations and tail-recursion cleverness. Interesting.