Friday, August 23, 2002

FastCGI, Portability and other severly Off-Topic topics Well, I broached the FastCGI idea on the OpenACS bboard. I probably should have put it in its own thread, because it really side-tracked a decent java and webdav discussion. I wish I had a bit more supporting evidence about how much effort it would entail. I think that's the lynchpin - if it's no big deal, I have a compelling case even to those who don't value x-platform. it's hard to argue with portability, but easy to argue about resources being stretched too thin. I had said in an earlier post that it looked like too much work, but in rethinking the cost-benefit, I should really give it a look. 4:45:07 PM      comment []  trackback []

Chris Winters, a perl developer I'm a big fan of, now has a news feed: http://www.cwinters.com/raw/cwinters.rdf http://www.cwinters.com/images/cw_rdf.jpg (screenshot) I've now converted mono's Miguel d. I. and OpenInteract's Chris W to my rss religion. I think a good follow-up would be to get REBOL's Carl S. to get a blog. Ray Ozzie doesn't deserve all the super-technologist blogging limelight! :-) Oh, FWIW I did a case study of Chris' OpenInteract. http://radio.weblogs.com/0103492/gems/notes.html I'm hoping to use SPOPS on my current PerlScript project. I hate ORM's (object-relational-mapping layers) as a rule, but Chris knows his stuff. 9:47:32 AM      comment []  trackback []

Microsoft 'Trinity' To Bring Unity to .Net, Office Developers .NET developers, thought you were immune to the strategy tax? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,480619,00.asp Think again. I know it's a ways down the road, but it might hint at MS's long term plan to incorporate proprietary, non-clonable APIs into .NET. Mono could still deliver on Miguel's stated goals of providing Ximian w/versioning relief and language binding, but I think MS will figure out a way to kill the promise of true API portability. Unified w/Office developers? Can you imagine a worse fate? (shudders, remembering prior mail merge/excel development). 9:47:27 AM      comment []  trackback []