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XML hot topics: the 10 most viewed XML 2006 presentation summaries
With the XML 2006 conference just over a week away, I took another look at the server logs to see what presentation summaries were getting the most page views: Web Services Policy Expression Alternatives W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding … Continue reading
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Wikipedia and trust
Update: corrected Encyclopedia Britannica link. A lot of people — publishers, the press, public figures, and bloggers — spend a lot of time agonizing over Wikipedia, and the general conclusion is either (a) Wikipedia is dangerously untrustworthy (from its detractors), … Continue reading
Tagged news, web
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XML 2006: most viewed presentation and tutorial summaries
It’s just over a month now until XML 2006, so make sure you register and reserve your room soon. Web site stats For a slightly different look at the conference, I popped dug through the web site’s server logs to … Continue reading
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Announcing Newmatica Barcode (testers needed)
[Update: I’ve shut down the site after nearly a year of inactivity. No regrets — it was a good learning experience, and cost very little (aside from spare time).] This summer I had an idea for a site where people … Continue reading
Stephens vs. Wikipedia
Stephen Dubner is the co-author of Freakonomics, a book that stands out for its ability to move past conventional wisdom and commonplaces to look at evidence that others either ignored or couldn’t understand. Dubner recently posted a blog entry about … Continue reading
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Firefox vs. PRG
[Update: it’s working now, after upgrading Ubuntu. Here’s an online test for your own browser.] Post/Redirect/Get (PRG) is a common web-application design pattern, where a server responds to an HTTP POST request not by generating HTML immediately, but by redirecting … Continue reading
Tagged architecture, web
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Continuations, cont'd
[Update: see further contributions to the discussion from Ian Griffiths, Avi Bryant, James Robertson, and Joe Duffy; note also John Cowan’s excellent comment below, pointing out that hidden fields work with the back button but not with bookmarks.] It looks … Continue reading
Tagged architecture, programming, web
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Getting the point of Skype and chat
I signed up for Skype a while ago, put EUR 10 into my account, and made a few calls. It was cute, it worked, but after a couple of experiments I couldn’t see the big deal. After all, Skype lags … Continue reading
Tagged kulcher, web
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Giving thanks
Over on XML.com, David Peterson gives Microsoft some well-deserved thanks for implementing and popularizing the XMLHttpRequest object that’s so useful in modern web development. He also thanks them for not charging for it, but of course, if they had tried … Continue reading
Kudos for Google
(Updated to include MSN response; updated again for the China thing.) According to this CBC article, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL have all willingly handed over search records to the U.S. government (they claim that no personal information is included, but … Continue reading
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