Wednesday, November 21, 2001

David Every compares WebObjects with PHP: iGeek: Web Objects or PHP? iGeek: WebObjects - Diamond in the rough? iGeek: PHP: The Zen development tool - Every is probably right about WebObjects, but from what I've seen of PHP, ASP, JSP etc. there is nothing out there that properly abstracts the web, is stable, is being actively maintained and marketed and lots of people are using. We'll probably end up using PHP (and hold our nose since mixing presentation and code is simply wrong!) for my next website simply because there is no real alternative except maybe Zope. 10:46:41 PM

FreeBSD Diary has a basic overview of setting up redirects in Apache. And there's always the Apache docs: mod_alias/Redirect directive. Linux Gazette has another Apache redirect article that I used a month ago to debug a problem encountered while trying to create a redirect. [lawrence's notebook] - Cool, I am going to need this for the new site. 8:41:51 PM

Via Doc: yet another free blogging tool: Freeblogger - the cool thing about this one is that it will be open source 5:53:28 PM

Lucrative Expletive (Or how Phil Kaplan, founder of F*ckedCompany, learned to stop worrying and love the dot-bomb) 5:43:26 PM

XQL was the predecessor to XMLQuery. Here is the XQL Spec. It should be studied in order to understand XQuery. 5:34:37 PM

Introduction to XML Query by Howard Katz of Fatdog 5:30:11 PM

Fatdog.com's XML Query Engine - another Vancouver XML company. This one does XML Query stuff. 5:28:30 PM

XSLT and XQuery: a difference of culture. Mike Kay from Software AG gave a high level comparison between XSLT and XQuery at the fourth Forum XML, where he concluded that the main differences between the two languages were differences of culture and perspective. [xmlhack] 5:26:18 PM

Apparently, I'm not the only one who doesn't enjoy Leah McLaren's writing. The Golden Word, the Engineering paper at Queens (hardly a reputable source if it's anything like the engineering paper was at my University but you never know!) has an editoral entitled Leah McLaren is a Fawning, Bilge-weened Poltron (PDF unfortunately) where they allege that the only reason she got her journalist gig at The Globe and Mail was because of her mother, Cecilia Ross, another Globe and Mail columnist. Scary if this is actually true! 2:31:16 PM

Congrats, Andrea on finishing your final exam! Exams and bad profs were the reasons I hated university. I loved learning and I loved my classmates; I just wish we were judged by projects rather than exams. 9:32:33 AM

C# from a Java Developer's Perspective - I don't plan on learning C# but this is interesting. 9:27:43 AM

TechInterview has moved and morphed into a CityDesk site. 9:16:11 AM

According to Content Management and Distributed File Systems, programs like CityDesk and other CMSes will lose i.e. not be as compelling once distributed file systems become commercially available from ISPs. 9:13:46 AM

Inex Pharmaceuticals is another Vancouver biotech firm that doesn't have any software related jobs (at least not on their website as of this writing). Fair enough! Software is probably not required (at least not yet!) for their core business. Still digging! 9:08:19 AM

Kip Hampton's columns on How to use Perl with XML from XML.com 8:20:40 AM

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