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Good stuff that NSDLers might find interesting, and an experiment in using weblogs for community building and knowledge transfer.



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Thursday, March 20, 2003
 

Just in case you forgot...

"RCS is the perfect product for the development of private knowledge networks that live behind firewalls in corporate or institutional environments. It also is perfect for publications and ISPs that want to host public communities on their own systems. By offering this software for free, UserLand is saying: Let's Grow Communities Now. "


6:00:43 PM    comment []

"I have been working with XML a lot recently in different contexts, in Python on server-side CGI scripts, in Windows via C#, and under DOS using the Borland 4.51 compiler (don't ask). I have come to a bold and brazen conclusion: XML Sucks."
5:47:51 PM    comment []

"Today's programmer has two tools available to parse and manipulate XML files: the Document Object Model (DOM) and Simple API for XML (SAX). Both, as we shall see, are infinitely more painful and infinitely more prolix than the previous code example."
5:46:44 PM    comment []

Tim Bray is a little bit frustrated...

"During the process of setting up ongoing, for the first time in a year or more I wrote a bunch of code to process arbitrary incoming XML, and I found it irritating, time-consuming, and error-prone."


5:44:20 PM    comment []

"This article examines the RSS format and examines the RSS feed I created for ASPMessageboard.com. This article also discusses how to consume RSS feeds using ASP, and mentions various programs you can obtain to browse various RSS feeds from your desktop. "
5:38:15 PM    comment []

"The Plat has received numerous requests for permission to use the graphics on the right side of the home page. You are all welcome to them. They are based on Antipixelâ019s buttons; I just took a good thing and carried it to its logical conclusion."
5:33:45 PM    comment []


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