Dave W points to Strangeberry, a startup that are doing a Java rendition of Rendevous. “Interesting!” I think, as I go to their site and browse the founders’ resumes, where I find something rather disturbing. What I find is that various US Patents are being paraded. These patents seem to be predominately for software, methodologies, [...]
In the swirling mass of memes surrounding web services (whatever they are) it’s sometimes easy to forget that REST is an architectural style, an approach, rather than something that you install or debug. If nothing else, it’s become useful as a framework in which I can think more clearly about web-based projects and their interfaces. [...]
Jon Udell wrote about whitelisting and ChoiceMail earlier this month, and rightly pointed out that such mechanisms were in some ways evidence that in trying to combat UCE we were losing the general efficacy of email. I just read (via Der Schockwellenreiter) about another potential assault (albeit seemingly well-meant) on the same. Wired reports on [...]
A (slightly) belated congrats to Ben on the publication of his book, Content Syndication with RSS. Just in time for my Christmas list. Having shared a similar experience I can appreciate the effort he has most certainly put in. Well done Ben.
After a rather longer-than-expected hiatus (I’ve been soaking up some of my online / technology saturation with some good old fashioned cooking, baking and sudden interest in antiques) I’m back in front of the keyboard. Lots to catch up on indeed. Seems the extended community continues to be busy, innovative, and still rather passionate about [...]