Monthly Archives: February 2006

Dead Laptop

Posted on 27 February 2006 by

So I’ve arrived in Cannes for the W3C Tech Plenary and 1 hour in my laptop hard disk fizzled out. Which makes several things rather tricky… I think the boot info has been corrupted. I’ve fixed this before by using … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Even Cobol

Posted on 24 February 2006 by

Sometime you need to make extreme statements to make a subtle point clearer: It doesn’t matter how easy it is in [awesome VisualStudio/RubyOnRails/Python/IntellijIDEA]. It has to be easy in COBOL. Robert Sayre on the permathread that is REST vs WS-*

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Infinite Scalability

Posted on 22 February 2006 by

An oft-forgotten feature of PHP is its shared-nothing architecture as pointed out in this pro-PHP rant (countering all the PHP bashing going on at the moment): …the important thing to take from that (compared to mod_perl / mod_python / mod_* … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

SVG Calendar

Posted on 22 February 2006 by

I’m in Oslo for a W3C working group face-to-face meeting. I’ve been doing some background research on the types of applications people are creating and came across this really neat calendar application written in dynamic SVG. I found the description … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments