I remember back in the ’90s joking with my friend Piers
When I see the first book on SAP hit the bookstores, it’s time to move on
In those days there were no books on SAP, and I was still in shock from receiving SAP documentation properly printed and bound — in the early days [...]
One thing that Tarpipe would really benefit from is a connector that would enable an HTTP request (I’m thinking of POST, here) to be made on an arbitrary resource (URL). This is something that other people have already mentioned — and the Tarpipe folks are certainly working on it.
I couldn’t wait, however, and thought I’d [...]
Is tarpipe.com an early example of a “Programming 2.0″ concept?
I first read about Tarpipe from Curt Cagle’s “Analysis 2009″. In turn, Curt points to Jeff Barr’s post which describes the concept and the implementation very well. It’s a fascinating concoction of Web 2.0 services and visual programming (in the style of Yahoo! Pipes), and in [...]
As feeds are the new blogs (quoting myself, oh dear!) I thought it important to make sure that the feed bots that have been continuously polling my weblog’s feed and getting 404s (since 2005, I guess) are sent to the right place. My Apache access.log file was showing that 404s were being returned for /qmacro/blog/index.rdf [...]
I’m back online, after an eXtended Away in Real Life. I don’t think my online presence will ever be what it was (I can’t believe how much I posted in the past few years) but blogging isn’t the same anyway. Even the new UK edition of Wired magazine (I’ve subscribed, btw) lists blogging under “Tired”. [...]