Tuesday, June 25, 2002

Moby Says Techie Fans = Fewer Sales [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] Bollocks, if 18 was actually any better than previous offerings it might sell more. I was very disappointed with it [and the latest from DJ Shadow]. By far my favorite new music is Solid Steel from DJ Food & DK, absolutely awesome, hasn't been out of the walkman all week. 1:54:09 PM

Almost got day 10 done, but for some reason Mozilla and IE both leave a gap between the top and the start of the nav cells, It looks fine on Opera 6 though. 1:54:09 PM

Congrat's to Tomas on getting his bachellor's degree, As for book recomendations, here's some recent reads that I liked. 1:54:09 PM

If you are interested in how Aggie works, I have posted a short Theory Of Operation for Aggie. [BitWorking] 1:54:09 PM

I ran into some interesting behavior with MSXML4.0 and loading schema's. 1:54:08 PM

Switch: Bill. My Name is Bill Gates, and I own a software company. [ Flash ] [More Like This WebLog] 1:54:08 PM

Big name microcasters pull the plug. Culturecide [The Register] Its a sad day, no more SomaFM or Tags Trance :( 1:54:08 PM

ANN: Web Services DevCon East Call for Speakers [Chris & Tim] 1:54:08 PM

A heads up from Tivo, the England/Brazil game, and the USA/Germany game have moved from ESPN2 to EPSN. 1:54:08 PM

Microsoft takes hostages for next anti-Java legal round. New lawyers, please [The Register] 1:54:08 PM

New Books. My copies of John Cough's "Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime" and Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" just arrived... Great! [Commonality] Good choice !, I've heard Peter say Cough's book is good, and Refactoring is a favorite of mine. 1:54:08 PM

Day 8: Constructing meaningful page titles : Nothing too strenuous so far, I already had DOCTYPEs everywhere, and the blog already had the lang attribute, it took me all of 30 seconds to get the PocketSOAP site updated with a lang attribute. Just finished following Jake's instructions on how to add the date to the archive pages. 1:54:08 PM

Editors' Newswire for 19 June, 2002. Newswire stories, including: Sun release Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.0. [xmlhack] Does this mean there'll be a flury of JAX-RPC / JAX-M toolkits to follow ? 1:54:08 PM

Ben Lowery posts HttpCompressionModule, an IHttpModule implementation with source that does gzip/deflate HTTP compression. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] Hmmm, alternatively you could just turn on the built in support for this. 1:54:08 PM

Sun may get seat in Web services group. A proposal being considered by the Web Services Interoperability Organization could pave the way for Sun Microsystems to join on equal footing with rivals Microsoft and IBM. [CNET News.com] 1:54:08 PM

Interop results udpated to include the WebMethods endpoint, and the group C Sun endpoint, and revised results for NuSOAP, Axis & Apache SOAP. Axis seems to be shaping up, just needs the mustUnderstand handling straightening out. 1:54:07 PM

Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x fixed. Come and get it [The Register] 1:54:07 PM

doc/literal/wrapped is being discussed over on SOAPBuilders. My biggest gripe is that in .NET wrapped mode is triggered by the putting the magic word "parameters" as the part name in the WSDL, so this is no different to there being a real indication that its RPC in the WSDL. This really should be a switch on the WSDL tools. To make things worse, it seems like other people are following Microsoft down the same rat hole. 1:54:07 PM

ASP.NET without IIS. Christian Langreiter cites a fascinating article by Ted Neward entitled Hosting ASP.NET: Running an All-Managed HTTP Server: ... 1:54:07 PM

Mark Pilgrim on titling for accessibility. On day 8 of his accessibility campaign, Mark Pilgrim echoes one of my perennial themes: titling web pages. He writes: ... 1:54:06 PM

Loose coupling and data integrity. Patrick Logan has written an excellent riff on my essay on loose coupling. He bravely points out that maybe the emperor has no clothes: ... 1:54:06 PM

Triangulating on k-logging for homeland security. Hey, this was top news in my own magazine. Cool! ... 1:54:06 PM

Steve Yost on ubiquitous collaboration tools. Steve Yost, inventor and proprietor of QuickTopic, disagrees with David Weinberger's assertion that collaborative software fails to thrive because companies are afraid to "hyperlink the hierarchy." The real problem is more mundane, Steve says: ... 1:54:06 PM

Routine intertwingularity and manufactured serendipity. Peter Drayton reports on a free, community-oriented ASP.NET tool just released by Microsoft: ... 1:54:05 PM

Baby boom. A minor baby boom has occurred in my weblog neighborhood. Congratulations, Gordon and Jeroen! A few years from now, these magical days will still be as vivid as they are right now. The challenges will be different, but the rewards will be as great. ... 1:54:05 PM

The GPS friendly fire incident: design versus training. On Saturday I mentioned Alan Cooper's anecdote about a design flaw in a military GPS device. An email correspondent, Jim Hanna, who I'm quoting with permission, clarifies the story: ... 1:54:05 PM