Jahr: 2005

Sean McGrath at ITworld.com – Naked programming on naked street: „Question: How do you stop people writing programs in which bits of programs crash into each other by sending wrong information into the various algorithms? i.e. sending a number when a date is expected, sending three strings when two are required, that sort of thing?…

In Joe Gregorio’s XML.com „The Restful Web“ column – Constructing or Traversing URIs?: „We have all these resources in our system, yet how do we enable the URIs of those resources to be discovered? Part of our specification, and of our running system, is being able to navigate around those resources. There are two types…

Chad Dickerson at InfoWorld – Does IT demand too much commitment?: „For me, these particulars add up to an aggressively unhealthy culture that views family as an impediment to IT success. […] Delegate some of the late-night work to a trusted lieutenant and use the time to help your kids with their math and science…

„Light Appliances is a system of information appliances to give access to internet communication and media to people otherwise unable to do so, without using the PC. The system is composed of buttonless appliances, each one dedicated to one specific function like email, voice over internet, video call and internet TV. […] Imagine a person…

At ONLamp.com, Daniel H. Steinberg summarizes Adam Bosworth’s keynote at the MySQL Users Conference 2005: „Adam Bosworth suggested that we „do for information what HTTP did for user interface.“ […] As a result of a simple, sloppy, standards-based, scalable platform, we have information at our fingertips from Google, Amazon, eBay, and Salesforce. Bosworth’s own company,…

Diabolic Crab – HTTP response splitting: „These kind of attacks are generally carried out in web applications by injecting malicious or unexpected charecters in user input which is then used for a 302 Redirect, in the Location or Set-Cookie header. […] To avoid such HTTP Splitting vulnerabilities parse all user input for CR LF rn…

„microformats are: * a way of thinking about data * design principles for formats * adapted to current behaviors and usage patterns * highly correlated with semantic xhtml, AKA the real world semantics, AKA lowercase semantic web, AKA lossless XHTML“ Take a look at the hCalendar example.

Sam Ruby points to IBM’s confession (and recommends PHP and other technologies): „Application development using IBM programming models and tools is untenably complex. The Research Division’s new Services and Software strategy includes a strong focus on radical simplification. […] Over 70 people in IBM worldwide are currently participating in an effort to define the problem,…

Tim Bray – Still Needs Measuring: „Except for, during the night, the guys from Microsoft went around, erased Netscape from all the computers, and installed Internet Explorer. I have some perspective now, but at the time I literally had to go outside the conference and sit down away from everybody, because I was afraid I’d…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Styles of Web application intermediation: „Consider a purchase order represented as an XML document and governed by a policy that requires schema validity. We can enforce that policy either on the wire or on the desktop. One way buys you application-independent consistency. The other way lets you tailor your users‘…