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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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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Ouch!
From Nick Gall’s position paper on an upcoming W3C workshop on a Web of Services for Enterprise Computing: Actually, the W3C XML Protocol Working Group uses a much more accurate name for WS-*-style Web Services: XML Protocol Services. If WS-* … Continue reading
Through The Mists of Time
Just in case you thought our historical records were a true account of our past here’s a list of famous people appearing twice in the same census. And these are just the famous people. How many of our not-so-famous families … Continue reading
REST is Functional
Something that hadn’t occurred to me, but in retrospect seems obvious now: It’s interesting to note here the connection between REST and functional programming and the meaning of the word ‘function’. For most developers a function is a sequence of … Continue reading
What Is An Open Platform?
Over on O’Reilly Radar there’s an interesting post about what it means to be an open platform (in the context of iPhone vs Treo). Some key points (which I think I agree with): An open platform allows developers to implement … Continue reading
Web Architecture Lab
This looks interesting, a proposal from Roy Fielding to set up a new Apache project: The Web Architecture Lab would be a work area for specifying and experimenting with the interrelated shared agreements (protocols) that make the World Wide Web … Continue reading
Five Things
The five things meme has made its way to me courtesy of Leigh Dodds. I thought I’d break one of my 7 habits to respond with 5 things you probably don’t know about me: I love playing board games and … Continue reading
