Really Interesting Aggregator.
I just got the nicest email from the wticker folks.  Very interesting.  Check it out.  [The FuzzyStuff: aaBlog_Roogle] 
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Blogs, Wikis and Tikis -- Oh My !.
I've been a pretty hard core blogger for over a year now.  Not that much more but still I do think I know the blogging scene pretty well.  Now given my overall penchant for blogging, you'll probably be surprised to hear that I've taken the wiki plunge -- and the water is **good**.  Damn good in fact.  While I don't have much more time tonight to go into detail, I can say this:

• TikiWiki is **outstanding**.  There are wiki tools in virtually every language but this one is in PHP, my preference.
• A wiki once you get into it feels like bloody magic.  What's that you say?  Its fully multi-user?  It has a highly granular security model that actually works?  Oh and it can version every single page and go back in time?  Good heavens!  And its easy too...?  Damn!  Where do I sign up?
• The team members (at least Marc Laporte the one I really know) are helpful, friendly and nice.
• I'd strongly recommend a Wiki as a collaborative documentation tool for technical / engineering organizations.  This is how we're using it for Feedster -- we added our business plan to it, our engineering specs*, systems administration notes and more.

Downsides?  Requires a bit of effort to learn.  Not that much -- more switching your mind view 180 degress and then the magic begins.  Documentation is solely in PDF format which made me want to take an axe to my brain.  I ***loathe*** pdf for onscreen content.  No readme file so I had to poke about and scrape to install it since I wasn't downloading a multi-megabyte pdf file just to try it out (note - I volunteered to write the readme file for the next release).

***Strongly Recommended***

*Yes Virginia, Feedster is moving out of "Scott's Wacky Hackomatic Approach to Rapid Internet Development" (SWHARID) and into a much more professional development cycle.  And I certainly can't take all the credit for that. [The FuzzyStuff: aaBlog_Roogle] 
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The aggregator gauntlet. Mark Pilgrim is building the gauntlet for aggregator writers. It's a set of tests for proper HTTP support. If you've been following my aggregator lists, go run the gauntlet. [Ted Leung on the air] 
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Survey of XML API's and techniques.

"A Survey of APIs and Techniques for Processing XML." By Dare Obasanjo. From XML.com (July 09, 2003). In recent times the landscape of APIs and techniques for processing XML has been reinvented as developers and designers learn from their experiences and some past mistakes. This article provides an overview of the current landscape of techniques for processing XML and runs the gamut from discussing old mainstays, such as push model APIs and tree model APIs as exemplified by SAX and DOM, to newer participants in the XML world such as cursor APIs and pull model parsers. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/09/xmlapis.html

http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200307.html#ObasanjoAPI

[Cover Pages Newsletter]

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 
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HTTP Test Suite. As a follow-up to yesterday's post about proper aggregator behavior, Mark Pilgrim has put together a HTTP test suite of sorts. This is a fairly important issue at the moment, as it's becoming easier and easier to code up simple user-agents, often in ignorance of most of the HTTP specification. ... [Artima Web Buzz] 
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Signing comments on blogs. Adrian Holovaty has implemented reserved comment names in his blog, a feature that prevents anyone apart from him from using the names "Adrian", "Adrian H." or "Adrian Holovaty" when posting a comment. François Nonnenmacher suggests extending the idea to allow people to "confirm" their authorship of comments on any blog using a TrackBack... [Artima Web Services Buzz] 
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Tunneling Flash Communications Through Firewalls and Proxy Servers by Brian Lesser; re: Flash Communication Server. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center] 
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