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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
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Monthly Archives: August 1999
Building a Better Webserver
An excellent article about building a web server. Covers several different hardware combinations and moves on to identifying bottlenecks based on the type of content being served followed by a discussion of the performance of the different threading models used … Continue reading
A Civilians Guide to the W3C
Simon St. Laurent has written a layman’s guide to understanding how the W3C’s works and why it does what it does. It’s still an early draft but it’s worth reading now.
DOD Security Found Lacking
According to this report in Federal Computer Week, the Defense Department’s information networks continue to be plagued by serious security flaws and weaknesses that have opened up almost every area of the department to cyberattacks and fraud Scary.
StarPortal
When Sun bought StarOffice a couple of weeks back it wasn’t for the current office suite but for StarPortal, the thin client version of Star Office. According to this report Sun are planning to demonstrate StarPortal accessed via a Java … Continue reading
GNUJSP Ceases Development
Vincent Partington has announced that he has ceased development of GNUJSP, the open source Java Server Pages implementation. A new project has been kicked off to pick up where Vincent left off but it remains to be seen whether the … Continue reading
New XHTML Drafts
W3C have moved the XHTML spec onto proposed recommendation status, which means it has about a month left for comments to be submitted, including the namespace debate currently raging on the XML-DEV mailing list. A new working draft has also … Continue reading
HTML 4.01
W3C have certainly been busy – they’ve issued an updated version of HTML called HTML 4.01 which fixes some broken bits of the previous spec but more importantly adds back in some support for bits they left out such as … Continue reading
Goodbye RSSMaker
Well the time has come to shut down RSSMaker. Don’t worry though cos all the old RSSMaker channels have been moved to StartsHere. Previously StartsHere had been picking up the RSSMaker channels and parsing them into the database. Obviously it … Continue reading
It gets worse…
Well, when i wrote that it was a bad week for Microsoft, I didn’t think it could get any better, but now they’ve excelled themselves. They’ve just released a fix for a bug in their virtual machine for Java which … Continue reading
Mozilla Milestone 9
Milestone 9 of Mozilla is now available featuring the new Necko library. Read the release notes because there ars some changes that you ned to make before running this build such as renaming your prefs50.js file back to prefs.js. The … Continue reading
