Friday, September 13, 2002

Ask Slashdot: Web Site Testing? http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid9861&cidB52571 Good comment on http proxy session-recording and playback tools which mentions my favorite, webchatpp. 5:38:56 PM      comment []  trackback []

HashCash? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid/09/11/1646230&mode=thread&tid2 What a great idea! Include a signature in messages or data that's non-trivial to compute, to prevent massively repetitive abuses (DOS, spam). I love the simplicity, but it's got some real chicken-and-egg problems compared to cloudmark (at least on the spam side). It seems a bit less complicated than relying on a haiku and international copyright enforcement, though. 8:28:17 AM      comment []  trackback []

Lightweight Web Services http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/lws I believe web services non-lightweight nature (compared to HTML et al) is reflected in their adoption rate. IBM has delivered some sort of generic script container with more server-side integration that the straight BSF. I love scripting bolted onto more serious architecture, and appreciate projects like this that show the way. LWS looks a lot like what Intraspect has done with their server-side Jython. ns_xml - seeya I reimplemented ns_xml using tDOM for the portable.nsd project and it appears to be parsing xql files. There are very few OpenACS DOM calls made, so I think I did this correctly. I need to become more systematic about writing tests so I can be sure. Although the code runs without errors on the command line, for some reason this library makes TclPro complain. Since it wasn't too much work, I should see if I have better luck with pure-TCL tclDOM. Also, I have not yet figured out garbage collection or implementing "-persists". 8:28:14 AM      comment []  trackback []