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Dead Laptop
Leave a comment27 February 2006 by Ian Davis
So I’ve arrived in Cannes for the W3C Tech Plenary and 1 hour in my laptop hard disk fizzled out. …
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Even Cobol
Leave a comment24 February 2006 by Ian Davis
Sometime you need to make extreme statements to make a subtle point clearer: It doesn’t matter how easy it is …
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Infinite Scalability
Leave a comment22 February 2006 by Ian Davis
An oft-forgotten feature of PHP is its shared-nothing architecture as pointed out in this pro-PHP rant (countering all the PHP …
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SVG Calendar
222 February 2006 by Ian Davis
I’m in Oslo for a W3C working group face-to-face meeting. I’ve been doing some background research on the types of …
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MARC Transliteration
922 December 2005 by Ian Davis
I got some great suggestions from my earlier posting which really shows the value of writing about stuff earlier rather …
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Transliteration or Interpretation
921 December 2005 by Ian Davis
When creating RDF schemas based on existing data formats you soon hit the inevitable decision point of whether to simply …
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Change Policies for Namespaces
Leave a comment17 December 2005 by Ian Davis
A good practice from the current namespace state draft from the W3C tag: Specifications that define namespaces SHOULD explicitly state …
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SOAP Destined to A Life of Obscurity
116 December 2005 by Ian Davis
This piece from Dare Obasanjo hot on the heels of the UDDI public registry closure adds weight to my suspicion …
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Dynamic Accesskeys
Leave a comment18 November 2005 by Ian Davis
Accesskeys in (X)HTML is an example of a beautiful hypothesis being ruined by an ugly fact. The theory of being …
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How Hard Is It To Understand Test DRIVEN Development?
318 November 2005 by Ian Davis
Oh dear with recommendations like these is it any wonder that Ward Cunningham left? Really, how much further from TDD …
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