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	Thursday, October 24, 2002

 Jon Udell: "Now that we've all written off client-side Java, it may yet prosper."

Rethinking the Java GUI. Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. "When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet," he jokes. His point: Java was miscast as a mobile and portable GUI. Its real mission in life was to become a platform for network services. I thought so too, from the moment I created my first servlet five years ago.

[Full story at InfoWorld.com.] ... [Jon Udell: InfoWorld]

9:18:20 PM  comment [] | Topics: Java 

 We All Need More Stuff

We must shop!

Feeding my gadget habit.

Gizmodo. Gizmodo : The Gadgets Weblog is an easy to scan blog covering gadgets. Get the latest on gadgets along with links to reviews and news clippings. Yesterday, I read about... [meryl's notes]

As if I needed more temptations to feed my techno-lust. Added to my subscriptions of course.

[McGee's Musings]

8:26:50 PM  comment [] | Topics: PDAs Wireless 

 Chris Pirillo (from TechTV) shares his top 10 computer-related help sites.

Thanks to Meryl for pointing out this article on TechTV's Chris Pirillo's top ten computer help websites.

Discover where Chris Pirillo turns to when he needs computer help.

If you call us for help when PC problems arise, where on Earth does Chris Pirillo turn to when he needs help? That's right, Chris needs help from time to time too. Did you think he suddenly woke one morning and discovered he was a walking encyclopedia of tech knowledge?

We managed to track down the man some refer to as the Lockergnome a few days back and interrogated him until he revealed his list of the top 10 computer-related help sites.

Ladies and gentlemen, we present you with Chris' top 10 help sites:

Full Story

8:18:33 PM  comment [] | Topics: Home_PC_Management 

 Photo tips from the people at O'Reilly

Thanks to Kevin Breit for pointing us to DP tips from the people at O'Reilly:

Top Ten Digital Photography Tips

by Derrick Story, author of Digital Photography Pocket Guide
10/22/2002

You've heard this before: Digital cameras do all the work. You just push the button and great pictures magically appear. The better the camera, the better the photos. Isn't that right? Heck no!

7:56:12 PM  comment [] | Topics: Photos 

Jon Udell: The publish/subscribe Internet.

[Scripting News]

Remember when GUI programming came along, with its notion of an event loop that didn't really control anything but reacted to everything? Programming in a world of distributed Web services is going to be a lot like that.

7:25:13 PM  comment [] |

Finessing PKI

PKI (public key infrastructure) is a ball and chain that drags down our security efforts, all of which depend on the ability to manage identity and trust. Last week I attended a conference on digital identity, and I came away with some new perspectives on PKI.

[Jon Udell]

7:19:36 PM  comment [] | Topics: Cryptography 

OASIS group forms to tackle digital signature quagmire. Standard to let Web services verify digital signatures, prove authenticity

[InfoWorld: Top News]

7:14:45 PM  comment [] | Topics: Cryptography 

I am adding this to the reading list. My current assignment involves XML, and the bosses don't like attributes with

<property name="maxtransactions">100</property>
<property name="source">trigger</property>
<property name="supermoduleII">yes</property>.

They'd rather have

<maxtransactions>100</maxtransactions>
<source>trigger</source>
<supermoduleII>yes</supermoduleII>.

I can't come up with an argument for my way over their way, other than my way uses a cleaner schema.

Who Loves Namespaces?.

The discussion over namespaces in RSS 2.0 is turning out to be a very instructive study for those of us who build XML infrastructure, training courses, and products for developers.  I hope that anyone who makes a living catering to XML developers is paying attention.

Most XML "experts" would consider it insane to attempt using XML for interop without using namespaces.  However, this is exactly the subject of the current debate over RSS 2.0.  Dave has listed the three possible options for RSS 2.0 use of namespaces.

[Better Living Through Software]

9:43:44 AM  comment [] | Topics: XML 

More homemade Tivo resources:

Could CDRW Disks Replace Videotapes?. NewtonsLaw asks: "I'm in the process of building a TiVo-like PC that uses off-the-shelf technology to implement video timeshift, MPEG recording, MP3 recording, ...

[Slashdot]

9:08:04 AM  comment [] | Topics: Tivo