house of warwick

Ok, this is just funny.  This is not a comment by me about what I think of Nechoatompie, but the sarcasm of this post is worth reading:

It's not obtuse enough yet!. What I think is that the Atom API should use more random parts of the HTTP spec. Instead of just adding an additional header with something like <action>update</action>, it should overload those HTTP verbs that are just so underutilized out there like PUT and DELETE. I mean, they're there for a reason, right? Or hell, if not, let's invent one. Also, instead of using an XML based stanza for security like Jabber (you know, that completely useless and horribly written XMPP spec), let's use HTTP headers instead. And not just *any* HTTP header, let's find something completely unsupported by popular web tools like PHP so only really dedicated developers will use it, something like HTTP Digest Authentication. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Oh wait, they're doing just that! Great! I was worried that the spec wasn't geeky enough. Phew! Good thing. I mean, I hate simplicity for simplicity's sake.

-Russ

Comment  [Russell Beattie Notebook]

Well written, Russ.  This kind of dry humor makes me wonder if you have English blood.

AppleScript and mySQL.
"mySQL4AppleScript is a library of AppleScript handlers for accessing mySQL databases. mySQL4AppleScript requires mySQL to be installed on Mac OS X." [Der Schockwellenreiter] [Andre Venter: Dev]

Brian Jepson's post, Fun with Dashboard and Mono, explores the use of some snazzy technology and intelligent agents to get close to what I was asking for in this post.  Be sure to read the backstory on Dashboard.  Geek warning, though.  It's intense.