Sunday, December 22, 2002

NY Times gadgets for X-Mas. Here's the NY Times top 12 products for X-Mas in the Road Warriors category: :-) [Marc's Voice] 10:27:39 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

A collection of links and thoughts, somewhat comprising an essay on visions of my future works. Recombinant growth refers to reassembling existing technologies into something novel, innovative, and ultimately greater than the sum of its parts. Recombinant growth needs to be activated at the user level. Tools and Services flexible and powerful enough to reassemble into new applications, without deep technical knowledge. Aggregation tools attach, understand, and use SOAP, xml-rpc, REST, HTML, ODBC, as well as accessing users own library of writings and multimedia. Publishing tools stitch these together into apps (using the eventually standard for web service coordation, or maybe this X#?), for personal use (traditional personalization like My Yahoo) and distribution, a domain currently limited to techies. Recombinant growth sounds like engineered Emergence. Spring Does this promise any of the above? I'm looking forward to testing it out. It seems to show Services wrapped in constraints, to guide the Tool to permit certain combinations of actions. Connections are made visually and through menus, at the user level. I agree that HyperCard was way ahead ahead of its time, and still is in many aspects. No environment has put the power of programming into so many otherwise unprepared hands. I know little of Hypercard, would like to know more. From this description, the vision could be summed as "Hypercard for the Web". Put the power of the web into unprepared hands. How does hypercard do it? Can its model be updating for online, distributed apps? That's a mini google zeitgeist timeline. Timeline is one of a fewgreat viewpoints on data. Tools should enable users to build their own zeitgeist timeline, by attaching references to dynamic web services and their own diaries. Or, how bout attaching a discussion, from egroups to weblogs to newspapers, stretched properly along a timeline, with referred with resources attached. Shift effortlessly to another viewpoint. Pieces of the timeline are made world writable, for others to build apon. From XML-RPC to SOAP: A Migration Guide Well the Web Services stack grows and solidifies, hopefully in the next couple years. What about legacy? With a demonstration of shoehorning xml-rpc into soap, it's conceivable to build soap wrappers for other legacy protocols, like screen scraping, to fully utilise coordination protocols. Well some conception is taking shape at least! [Brain Off] 10:23:04 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Cross Site Scripting FAQ. Via Simon, The Cross Site Scripting FAQ. Cross site scripting (where malicious users insert HTML / javascript in to your site in some way that allows them to steal cookies or cause other problems) is an issue that all web developers should understand. It is easy to defend against once you understand the problem. [Keith's Weblog] 9:01:47 AM    trackback []     Articulate []