Jahr: 2008

M. David Peterson at the O’Reilly XML Blog – Question: Does the URI Length Recommendation of 255 bytes Matter Anymore?: „RFC 2068 is about a week shy of being 11 years old. Is the 255 byte URI length recommendation still applicable? From the client perspective, possibly not. But what about from the proxy perspective? And…

Rick Jelliffe at the O’Reilly XML Blog – XML Schemas: guaranteed non-interoperability as a design methodology?: „Why not? Because, as far as I can make out, the idea that we will all be better off if we pretend that XML Schemas is a unified and whole specification, one size that can fit all, then somehow…

Bruce Eckel – The Mythical 5%: „Usually the things that make or break a project are process and people issues. The way that you work on a day-to-day basis. Who your architects are, who your managers are, and who you are working with on the programming team. How you communicate, and most importantly how you…

Jakob Nielsen – Feature Richness and User Engagement: „Typically, when new prospects first visit your site, you’re simply one of ten sites on the SERP [Search Engine Results Page]. The only way they’ll shortlist your site is if you can convince them in two minutes. Thus, websites should have almost no features: focus on the…

Gloria W. – RESTful Thoughts on a Web 2.0 Python Project: „It helps tremendously to work out the ‘chatter’ between the client and the server in human language before designing it. Here is an example of RESTful chatter between a client inventory application, and it’s corresponding server application: […] The point of the chatter is…