BurningbirdI agree with Sam Ruby: a successful tech is a diversified one. You can’t always depend on a new millennium to justify sticking with one and only one programming language. This last week I worked with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby. I had been on a long hiatus from Java after the end of the […]
I wrote a while back about putting RDF files out on Amazon’s S3 file storage. Why, I was asked. After all, I don’t have enough files, I have room on my server, and so on. Yup, I agreed. Other than S3 being nifty tech and wanting to be a cool kid, why would one want […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A week or so ago I made a comment about not caring for the new current crop of agile programming paradigms including one of the more controversial, eXtreme programming. Stavros asked what my concerns were about these approaches. As a response, I pointed to the web site for the Agile Programming Manifesto. If a picture […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray has an interesting take on the use of AJAX: rather than have your server do the data processing, use AJAX to grab the data and then have the clients do the work: A server’s compute resources are usually at a premium, because it’s, you know, serving lots of different […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I like Doc Searls, even when I’m not agreeing with him, and this is one of those times. Nat over at O’Reilly posted an email Doc wrote to him in response to Nat’s seeking to better understand Web 2.0. Doc responded by describing three specific types of morality–self-serving, accounting, and generosity–stating that […]