Monday, May 20, 2002

Post with title and no link, to "Aggregated Weblog" 5:04:55 PM

Testing recentTitledBlogPosts on Aggregated Weblog category page... 4:40:48 PM

Common XML: a quiet, stress-free park bench. Sean McGrath always seems to be saying something sensible: ... 4:35:04 PM

Basic and advanced RSS. Sam continues to provide an excellent perspective on moving RSS forward: ... 11:25:11 AM

Extending RSS: first things first. On the always-thorny question of how to extend RSS, I guess I'm for a first-things-first aproach. ... 11:25:11 AM

Sam Ruby, sounding like a cross between Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift, makes a priceless comparison on the rest-discuss list: ... 11:25:11 AM

The secret life of numbers. One day, fiddling with Google, I noticed that you could search for plain integers -- 3, 42, 80386, whatever -- and get pagecounts that seemed to vary in interesting ways. Somebody should do something with this, I thought. ... 11:25:11 AM

Manhattan project for energy independence. Tom Friedman nails it in today's op-ed. The problem isn't that we can't think like the bad guys, it's that we're not thinking like good guys. ... 11:25:11 AM

Something funky going on with the aggregator in Radio, the Etag samples i posted choked the aggregator display, as far as i can tell, Radio doesn't encode the HTML when it generates the RSS, but the aggregator [or the news page] is doing a decode of what it got in the description tag. Perhaps Radio should be encoding the HTML tags in the RSS it generates ? 11:25:08 AM

... Maybe Simon's willing to post some sample header values to shed some light on the idea... [Jake's Radio 'Blog] Sure, the server response may contain an ETag header, you save this away, ascociated with the URL, then on subsequent requests for that url, you include a If-None-Match header with the etag value. If the contents haven't changed, then the server will reply with a 304 Not Modified. I moved the samples to here, as they seem to choke the aggregator display in Radio. 11:25:08 AM

Here's a suggestion for people writing RSS aggregators, use the HTTP/1.1 Etag and If-None-Match headers so that you only fetch the feed if its changed. 11:25:07 AM

Woo Hooooo !, it finally stopped raining :) 11:25:06 AM

I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but the ASP.NET webforms model is entirely POST based, I had to manually code up the column headers/sorting on this page, so that its GET/Bookmark friendly. 11:25:05 AM

Following a discussion on axis-dev, I've put up a user agents summary page for soap.4s4c.com, so you can see what toolkits have been active in the last 7 days. 11:25:03 AM