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Tired of frameworks
I’m tired of software-development frameworks — they seem always to be optimized for the way someone else works, or for the way someone else thinks I should work. Granted, it’s fun to write frameworks, and it’s almost as much fun … Continue reading
Tagged architecture, programming
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The REST schism and the REST contradiction
Update: a proposal for a better name. Don Box got people talking last week in a posting where he distinguishes between two kinds of REST: lo-REST, which uses only HTTP GET and POST, and hi-REST, which also uses HTTP PUT … Continue reading
Tagged architecture, programming
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RFC: (Java) SAX exceptions and new minor SAX version
(Note that this is not a major API change, and does not affect non-Java versions of SAX.) Over on the sax-devel mailing list, Norman Walsh, who is involved with JAXP at Sun, has requested a small change to the SAXException … Continue reading
Tagged programming
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Programming languages of distinction
Via Ongoing, I read some interesting discussions of programming languages — mainly Python vs. Ruby, with most people happily dumping on Java. Steve Yegge, in particular, argues that language success is based mainly on marketing, and that Python is doomed … Continue reading
PHP, XML, and Unicode
Update: in a comment John Cowan points out the obvious, that a UTF-8 escape sequence can never contain an ASCII character (because the high bit is always set, as I knew but failed to register). As a result, my xml_escape() … Continue reading
Tagged programming, tips
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A new Namespaces discussion
Eliot Kimber and I were both on the old W3C XML Working Group during the development of the Namespaces in XML specification. Late in the process, pressure from outside the WG forced us to make a major change to the … Continue reading
Tagged programming
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Two Web Services Questions (what actually works?)
My biggest frustration with the current Web Services debate (triggered innocently in a posting by Don Box, with followups by nearly everyone) is the lack of verifiable information. We need a big, independent study to answer two important questions about … Continue reading
Tagged business, programming
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Can SOAP hide XML?
[update: fix affiliations] I just stumbled on an interesting paper from the IEEE Web Services conference last July, Rethinking the Java SOAP Stack (PDF), written by Steve Loughran at HP Laboratories Bristol and Edmund Smith at the University of Edinburgh. … Continue reading
Tagged programming
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First mover (dis)advantage
I recently heard from an older computer user who was delighted that his hotel’s free WiFi simply worked with his notebook computer. Internet access on the road didn’t use to be so easy, either for hotels or their guests. Consider … Continue reading
Life without cookies (or URL rewriting)
Is it possible (for webapps, that is)? Is it desirable? Current practice is to set up a session on the server side, then use the cookie (or a GET parameter or URL substring) as a key to associate individual HTTP … Continue reading
Tagged programming, web
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