Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are few things I dislike more than interviewing for new gigs, especially in a town where you don’t know the consulting companies, and don’t have contacts. However, my name has now been submitted for several longish contracts at some bigger companies and hopefully in the next week or two, […]
Year: 2002
Challenges
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The way of dealing with the stress of the interviewing process is NOT to sit in front of the computer, becoming frustrated at the BS associated with RSS. I need to work on the RDF book, true, but I’m also taking time to do some hiking. In fact, I’m going […]
When friendships fade
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Loves come and go, but a friendship should last forever. Well, so the story goes, but we know that in reality, this doesn’t happen. Over time people change and friends grow apart and the connectivity you once shared with a friend fades away — daily calls giving way to weekly […]
PHP/MySQL Help
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My system has MySql 2.23.51, Apache 1.3, PHP4, FreeBSD, and I’m running into problems trying to update or insert into MySql with PHP. The update or insert works, but I get warning back: Warning: MySQL: Unable to save result set The change is saved, but the application breaks. No error […]
RSS, XML, and Namespaces—oh my!
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave writes that the use of namespaces is fundamentally flawed because the hasty introduction of namespaces into RSS 2.0 generated problems with several aggregators: If this is true, we can’t design using namespaces until: 1. All the parsers are fixed, or 2. Users/content providers expect and accept this kind of breakage (I […]
