BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray wrote a short note on weblogs and wikis, basically saying that contrary to assertions at Sun and elsewhere that the two are convergent, they’re both very different: A wiki is a collaborative construction engine, with refactoring and edit-in-place being the dominant forms of activity, and many equal voices […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. An issue about attaching metadata recorded as RDF/XML to a web object, particularly a web page, is that there is no clean way to embed the XML into an (X)HTML document; at least, embed the data and still have the page validate. Yet creating separate files just for the RDF/XML […]
I have never been one to jump on the syndication and aggregator wagons, following all the latest innovations. I still don’t provide full feeds for my syndication feeds at Burningbird; and I think Podcasting is half craze, half pirate radio station without the élan of continually escaping the clutches of the FCC. But I do […]
I do most of my development on remote servers, either at my client’s or my own sites. However, when contemplating server-side development in a disconnected environment, I had to decide if I wanted to create the local work space on my PC or my Mac. The PC has more space, but most applications run into […]
For those who positively, absolutely, cannot stand to live in America any longer AND who are single: Marry a Canadian! Many of the profiles are very funny (or, I certainly hope were meant to be funny) and just what we need right now. My favorite is from the 50 year old minister who says what he’s looking for […]