Friday, March 28, 2003

Followup to 'XML Is Too Hard' Tim Bray wrote recently that XML was too hard for programmers, and many people (most didn't read the article, I suspect) turned that into "XML Sucks." Tim, one of the co-inventors of XML, needed to clarify that it isn't XML that's the problem, in this article. 5:45:21 PM    comment []

NPR postings on Blogs Dave Winer had mentioned an interview on NPR for blogging. I couldn't find that one on-line yet, but I did find these two on the NPR web site: Omar Wasow interviewed by Alison Keys on the Tavis Smiley Show, 13-Feb-2003, and Linguist Geoff Nunberg explains the phemomenon of blogs: personal websites that function as public diaries on Terri Gross's awesome Fresh Air, 10-Dec-2001 And, of course, NPR points to the requisite Iraq blogs. It looks like Chris Lydon had a blogging show on WBUR's The Connection on May 5, 2000. 5:24:05 PM    comment []

FoxPro-generated RSS feeds improved Big salute to Andrew Coates of Civil Solutions, Australia, for taking my hacked-together code to generate XML-formated date-time strings from FoxPro for RSS feeds, and he turned the code into a nice, clean, timezone-aware snippet. Both of the feeds I am generating, FoxCentral.net and FoxForum wiki (available for syndication at http://www.tedroche.com/RSSFeeds.html) now use his technique for cleaner datetime information. Still in beta, still needs more work in the parsing and error-handling sections, but coming along well. (from FoxForum Wiki 10:04:23 AM    comment []

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