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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 2002
Weblogs for Self-Discovery
Grandfather of weblogging Jorn Barger has written another weblogging related essay: An Internet way of self-knowledge: The use of journalling for self-discovery is a longstanding and well-studied phenomenon, but traditionally its privacy has been seen as its greatest strength. When … Continue reading
JXTA v1.0 Protocols Internet Draft
I missed this one somehow, a new Internet draft of the JXTA v1.0 Protocols Specification. The JXTA protocols are a set of six protocols that have been specifically designed for ad hoc, pervasive, and multi-hop peer-to- peer (P2P) network computing. … Continue reading
BT.com Gone
A nice unprofessional way to upgrade your website from British Telecom, one of the UK’s largest companies: We are currently upgrading this site. Full service will be restored shortly. Below is a list of useful numbers that may be able … Continue reading
RSS Linking Module and OCS
I have been looking at how mod_link can be used to replicate or replace what I have been developing with OCS. The key function of OCS is to provide user-agents with enough information to make a choice about which channels … Continue reading
Refactoring Challenge
Now here’s an interesting challenge: take a Basic program from the seventies, riddled from top to toe with gotos and single letter variables and apply modern refactoring techniques to produce a version comprehensible to the casual observer. That was Alan … Continue reading
Site Makeover
I thought it was time for a makeover of Internet Alchemy. A few truly minor tweaks to the underlying XHTML and a new stylesheet. Hey presto! Cleaner, easier to read – it could almost be 1992 again! Just for the … Continue reading
RSS Readers that Support Conditional Gets
This list is gleaned from my server logs. If your RSS reader supports ETags or HEAD requests let me know and I’ll add it here: AmphetaDesk NetNewsWire – latest beta Cupcake Aggie 1.0 Release Candidate 3 Radio Userland – testing … Continue reading
More XML Diff Tools
Here’s bunch of other XML difference tools: IBM AlphaWorks XML Diff and Merge Tool – Java based, uses tree matching based on ID attributes or content Dommitt Unordered Diff – ignores order of nodes in document (?!), Java based, flattens … Continue reading
Microsoft XML Diff
It seems perverse to me that the diff example in Microsoft’s XML Difference language is larger in bytes than the original and final xml added together. I’m looking for an XML diff that is more efficient to transmit than simply … Continue reading
Chris Sells WTL Articles
Chris Sells has made his two WTL papers (WTL Makes UI Programming a Joy) available for download from his site after they were removed from DevelopMentor’s. Both are in zip format: Part 1: The Basics and Part 2: The Bells … Continue reading
