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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.
My URI:
http://iandavis.com/id/me
Email Me:
nospam@iandavis.com
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/iand
Monthly Archives: August 1999
Weblog Critiques
Jorn, defacto godfather of the weblog, is at it again. This time he’s reviewing weblogs. He says that he doesn’t want to traumatize the weblog community. I’d hate to see a traumatizing review if his remarks about Dwelling are an … Continue reading
StartsHere Backend
Want to get a list of StartsHere’s channels? Want to see any channel in RSS format? Version 0.90 or 0.91? Want to see what other cool backend stuff we’re working on? Have a look at the StartsHere backend.
Takeover Blues
This is a fantastic article about life after the takeover. Thanks Jorn.
StartsHere Update
There have been some radical changes at TheWeb.StartsHere.Net. We’re moving away from the simple channel viewer towards a service that allows you to manipulate and use the channels in new ways. You can create you own custom aggregate channels so … Continue reading
Computer Plays With Lego
Scientists at Brandeis University have programmed a computer to design lego structures without human intervention. They gave it some basic physical principles and goals such as spanning a distance or supporting a weight and it spat out it’s own designs … Continue reading
More Microsoft Security Holes
It’s turning out to be a very bad week for Microsoft on the Security front. After the ActiveX flaw earlier this week, it now turns out that NT is vulnerable to a Predictable IP Sequence Numbering flaw. Microsoft have said … Continue reading
Sun drops Java OS
in some rather shocking news, Sun appear to have ceased development of the Java OS for Business. Hits me rather hard after all the work i put into JOS a couple of years back. In fact that project could benefit … Continue reading
We’re Back
Sorry for that unscheduled outage – our web host upgraded to a new server and broke PHP. They fixed that but they had installed the latest version of Postgres. The database was left running on the old machine, but the … Continue reading
Two Java Servlet Articles
Via Bill at Whump come thse two Java related items: Lessons Learned Doing Java Programming for my Web Site and a new very comprehensive guide to Configuring and Using Apache JServ
Email Device
An Email device could be a real killer and, according to this article, SBC are planning one. The device will feature a keyboard and flip up screen and connects to any phone. Pressing the send button dials an ISP and … Continue reading
