Context Machine

MOVES Institute's Context Machine  [from Semantic Web Blog, featuring RDF]

Eventually we will use something like this or Aibot (from OOPSLA Dolphin smalltalk demo) for our programming tasks.

Prevalyer's strength and weakness

Distributing Prevayler-like Commands.

I built something like Prevayler about a year ago, except that it maintains distributed knowledge stores.  It's kicking around statement edits, basically.  I can have a bunch of tuplespaces locate each other through JINI...they are able to relay commands to each other when other processes do things (like write or remove statements).  The commands are kept in a buffer.  The trick is, how do you guarantee that each instance executes the same commands in the same order? [...]

[Spiral Dive]

A very interesting thought. Note to self: compare and contrast with ExtremeSpaces.

Prevayler's strength is in transaction and weakness is in distribution and scalibility, lack of OLAP, management?

RESTless about REST

REST and session state. One issue with the REST hypertext model is its view on managing state. REST constrains that state reside on the client, However the real web works precisely backwards to this:... [Bill de hÓra]

Emphasis added. REST is an interesting beast. It brings an interesting reaction from me: a sneaking suspicion about its programming model and lots of questions. I may be very very wrong about REST...