A Frog in the Valley, le weblog de Sylvain Carle, Nouvelles et Opinions. Ou l'inverse.
 Tuesday, January 22, 2002

A common Weblog API for XML-RPC.
There's a proposal for an expanded, common XML-RPC API for weblogs that supports more than the requirements for Blogger and Manila sites. It includes methods for managing posts, categorization, user authentication, and comments.
[Via More Like This WebLog


Blogstory perce sur Blogdex. Ca va être big! 

Dave is running a Survey
In my third Going Crazy tutorial I showed you how to do a smart coffee cup, one that would make it really easy for a Radio 8 user to subscribe to your XML feed. Now we want to make it a standard feature, so we need to decide on a graphic
[Via Scripting News]

Implemented here as preferred!



What's so nice about this? With Radio it was open template in text editor, cut, paste, post. 10 seconds, everything is live... This is sooooo convenient. I really like upstreaming! 

After the developers said for years that native (or native-looking) widgets are impossible, Mozilla 0.9.8 will finally have them.
[Via Hack the Planet

I'm sorry Dave. You can't do that, Dave.
Même si vous sortez vos câbles à survoltage, Windows XP ne démarrera pas.
[Via PSSST!

WARNING - Klez worm
Yet another e-mail-borne worm is making the rounds on the Internet using an infection and pattern that should be quite familiar to administrators and users.
[Via Lockergnome Bytes

How the Wayback Machine Works
Q&A with Brewster Kahle. What's amazing to me is the fact that the hardware is free. For doing things even in the hundreds of terabytes, it costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. When you talk to most people in IT departments, they spend a couple hundred thousand dollars just on a CPU... Très intéressant au niveau de l'architecture utilsée pour gérer tout ces terabytes.
[Tomalak's Realm


Book Excerpt: Programming Jabber, Pt 2
Having downloaded and configured the Jabber server, it's now time to put it to good use. Starting and stopping the server is the main focus of this excerpt, with additional information on what to do when things go wrong.
[Via WebReference News

Solaris hole opening way for hackers
Online vandals are using a two-month-old security hole in Sun Microsystems' Solaris and other Unix operating systems to break into servers on the Internet, a security expert said Tuesday. Juste pour balancer avec les mauvaises nouvelles windows... la sécurité c'est un processus de gestion pas d'application de patches (mais ça en fait partie comme indiqué ici). 
[Via NewsForge: Open Source News

Pas que je veuille encore vous parler de moi mais mes referer logs me disent que je suis le hit #2 pour une recherche en français sur Google pour "egocentrisme". Ouch! 

Metadata: Selected papers from Dublin Core 2001
The Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) have published a special issue on metadata which includes selected papers from the Dublin Core 2001 Conference (DC-2001) held in Tokyo, Japan. [Via UMBC AgentWeb

How to Translate 'Free' to 'Fee'
When translation startup Babylon informed its customers it would begin charging for services that previously were free, it didn't know what to expect. Its story is representative of what's happening on the Internet overall. C'est une transition difficile, beaucoup plus difficile de convaicre des clients que des VCs semble-t-il... [Via Wired News

Je me suis bien amusé ce matin sur PSSST! 

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