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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: November 1999
RSS With Perl
Chris Nandor has written a good article about his uses of Perl to construct RSS based portals. He shares some excellent tips for dealling with ill-formed XML (something RSS channels are prone to) and gives full source code for his … Continue reading
Internet Alchemy Takes Submissions
You can now contribute your own stories to Internet Alchemy by using the submit story link on the right. We’re interested in anything related to developing for the Internet. It doesn’t have to be XML or WAP related – they’re … Continue reading
The Register Clueless
The Register, usually the best source of industry news and analysis, has finally lost it. Who on earth let this one through? Do they really believe that Usenet is run by a single company? Update: the page referred to has … Continue reading
IE 5.5 Preview
According to BetaNews, Microsoft have posted a developer preview version of IE 5.5 for download. There are a number of new features including Print Preview, which apparently lets you preview a page before you print it, instead of the usual … Continue reading
XPointer Last Call Working Draft
The W3C have issued the final working draft of the XPointer spec. XPointers allow you to specify the location of a fragment of XML even when it is embedded within a document. It provides a syntax based on XML Paths … Continue reading
Interview With AIBO Creator
In this interview, Dr. Toshitada Doi, the creator of the Sony Robot Dog, describes his vision for the future of robotic pets: Ten years from now, every household could have two or three entertainment robots like Aibo, says Doi, a … Continue reading
The Next Twenty Years
Want to find out what the next twenty years has in store for you?
eHow
eHow aims to provide a source for finding out how to do something such as Find a Lost Cat, Boil Pasta or Install a Surround Sound System, the premise being that once you’ve found out how to do something you … Continue reading
(Yet) Another IE5 Security Hole
This one’s about as big as it gets. Georgi Guninski has found a way to exploit ActiveX controls in IE5 that allows him to create a file on your hard disk without your knowledge. This works even on NT. The … Continue reading
MSN Messenger Security
Microsoft has confirmed that a security hole in it’s MSN Messenger can expose a user’s hotmail password. If you use Messenger to check your hotmail account and cancel the page before it loads fully your password is left embedded in … Continue reading
