Jahr: 2006

Jon Udell – Tantalizing hints of the Knowledge Navigator: „It’s all compelling stuff, but there’s something about Avi Bryant’s [Dabble DB] maneuver that shouts Knowledge Navigator. In this 90-second excerpt from the screencast, you can see how Avi hoists data right out of a web page and weaves it into a structured view. So natural,…

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Jenn Riley – More structured metadata: „I often encounter people who see my job title (Metadata Librarian) and assume I have an agenda to do away with human cataloging entirely and rely solely on full-text searching and uncontrolled metadata generated by authors and publishers. That’s simply not true; I have no such goal. I am…

Sam Ruby – That’s Not Write: „I’ve known for a while that pretty much all the browsers don’t implement document.write when found in the context of XHTML documents — even in the case where both the enclosing document and string are separately well formed.“

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Apple Xserve: The final review: „While trends, or rather, the analysts who proclaim them, are pointing to the triumph of software as a service, outsourced applications, consulting, node-locked operating systems and other pay-as-you-go approaches, Apple is piloting a rocket-powered sled in the opposite direction. Apple is going to sell complete…

Tim Bray – Comparing Frameworks: „Maybe it’s just because I’m a grizzled 25-year veteran, but my feeling is that in the real world in the long term, maintainability is a really really big deal, the biggest of all. Out there in the wild woolly “Web 2.0” world, maybe getting it built quick is all that…

Simon St. Laurent at XML.com – The Next Web?: „Developers who craft smart APIs on their servers for use by AJAX-based web pages can then expose those APIs to other developers, getting the benefits of better interfaces for users who use web browsers to consume the data and for users who have their own custom…

David Weiss – A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab: „I’m going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what’s it’s like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events or special visits from our MVPs I’ll…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Web apps, just give me the data: „Scraping data off Web pages can be effective, but it’s far from ideal. Although we think of the Web as a rich trove of data, the pickings are depressingly slim if you want to transform or recombine that data. And there’s no good…

Sam Ruby – Trade-offs: „Contrary to what some will lead you to believe, I submit that it is possible for a query to be simultaneously SOAP, REST, RPC, POX, and transmitted using HTTP POST. And all this could be done with or without a WSDL document or an XML schema.“