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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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http://iandavis.com/id/me
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Monthly Archives: May 2002
The Shafe Report on P2P Computing
The Shafe Report on P2P Computing. A good survey of the state of P2P that tries to identify where the gold is for new startups: It is often said in computer circles that the people most likely to make money … Continue reading
Insatiable SVG
Insatiable SVG. A report by Eric van der Vlist from XML Europe on the state of SVG, including its use on mobile devices. SVG is invading your cell phone and this “graphical XML” might wipe out “text XML” (such as … Continue reading
Eiffel for .NET part 2
Eiffel for .NET part 2. Following up the first part of Bertrand Meyer’s Eiffel.NET series detailing how the Eiffel.NET compiler shoehorns multiple inheritance into the .NET single inheritance model. As I suspected it’s a complete hack. The base classes become … Continue reading
KaZaA Worm
KaZaA Worm. There’ll be a lot more of these before the year’s out.
XBox Economics
XBox Economics. An insightful analysis of the economics of the XBox The economics of the XBox don’t add up now, and they get worse with time. Sony and Nintendo can kill the XBox on cost alone. The “software subsidies” that … Continue reading
F#
F#: F# is an implementation of the core of the Caml programming language for the .NET Framework, along with cross-language extensions. The aim is to have it work together seamlessly with C#, Visual Basic, SML.NET and other .NET programming languages. … Continue reading
Updated RSS Microsite
Updated RSS Microsite. I’ve added some new aggregators and RSS tools to my RSS microsite. Drop me a line at iand@InternetAlchemy.org if you’re missing and want to be listed there.
W-CDMA Bugs Will Delay 3G Take-off
W-CDMA Bugs Will Delay 3G Take-off. More evidence that the 3G roll-outs are not going to happen in any significant way for a couple more years. Leading Japanese mobile vendor Matsushita has warned that ongoing technical problems with W-CDMA technology … Continue reading
Java Performance and Scalability
Java Performance and Scalability. An in depth article about Java performance, especiially with regards to garbage collection. Developers must first get a solid background in garbage collection, examine the different algorithms and implementations, come to understand how they affect the … Continue reading
Is a Cow an Animal?
Is a Cow an Animal? An interesting discussion of covariance. An Animal class has an eat method that takes a food as an argument. A Cow class inherits from animal and overrides the eat method to take a vegetableFood argument. … Continue reading
