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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
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nospam@iandavis.com
Twitter:
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Monthly Archives: October 1999
WAPAW.COM Hits 2000
WAPAW.COM hit 2000 pages indexed today. The actual volume of content is much larger because WML splits each page up into a number of cards which are like pages within pages. There are also nearly 800 pages with bad XML … Continue reading
XSLT Tutorial
Crane Softwrights have a freely downloadable tutorial on using XSLT available at their site. It’s in a 2 up format but most printers should cope with it. Other versions are for sale at the site.
Telephone Number Mapping
A new IETF working group has been set up to produce a DNS-based method of mapping telephone numbers to attributes such as URLs for devices such as pagers, faxes and modems. If implemented properly this could be very exciting. Imagine … Continue reading
British Slang Dictionary
Got this link via Cam. Reading the article he points to, I can honestly say that I haven’t heard of any of those slang terms. Not a single one. That either means I’m a sad bloke who doesn’t meet enough … Continue reading
Querying Index Server using ADO
If you’re doing development with IIS and Index Server then this article might be of interest. It’s a step by step tutorial on accessing Index Server using ADO which lets you do things like dynamically generating search queries or querying … Continue reading
NT Service Pack 6 Out
Microsoft have released Service Pack 6 for NT. Top of the list are 4 year 2000 bug fixes. It’s November on Monday. Two months to go until the year 2000 and we still don’t have a compliant version of NT.
A Plea For Schemas
Matthew Gertner has written a well thought out piece describing why schemas are going to be important for widespread adoption of XML. The basic thread is that schemas simplify things for the end user by enabling tools to become smarter. … Continue reading
Why Use RSS?
WebReview have a couple of new features about RSS. The first, Why Would You Use RSS?, suggests some uses for RSS, although this paragraph puzzles me: It should come as no surprise, then, that Userland and O’Reilly are very interested … Continue reading
A Good Idea
It’s good to know that Dave Winer can spot a good idea when he sees it. But if he’d looked at StartsHere closer he would have realised that he could have created a custom channel that does the same as … Continue reading
Suck to Sell Out?
The New York post is reporting that a group of online magazines, including Feed, Suck and the Smoking Gun are about to be bought out by Lycos Ventures to create a new media network. Good luck to them.
