Monthly Archives: April 2002

Wil Wheaton vs Soul Coughing – FIGHT!

I &heart; the Internet and weblogs. What happens when one of my favorite bands’ main man, Mike Doughty, and one of my favorite ex-Star-Trek-survived-the-80’s actors, Wil Wheaton, collide in blogspace and discussion groups? Well, first no one believe’s it’s really Wil Wheaton posting to the DG. But then, when everyone realizes that yes, in fact, it’s [...]

RDF, whitelist spam filtering, and personal metadata

Okay, I’m done thinking and writing about REST for the time being. I think I understand it, but it doesn’t seem to light any fires for me yet. I’ll just stuff it away into my utility belt and keep it in mind in case the need for a REST-headed screwdriver comes up, or [...]

REST, Part the Third.

Here I am, a Busy Developer trying to work his way up to being a real Computer Scientist. In doing this, I subject myself to things like RPC vs REST. I see apparently intelligent people vehemently disagreeing about something, I figure there’s something to it. This may be naive. I hope [...]

REST: What’s it good for? Part Deux

Chris Heschong writes: Ken ?MacLeod notes that, in regards to REST, “the only thing holding us back is a marshalling standard.” I’d be a lot happier with REST implementations if this were the case. (Whew, I think I need a convention for quoting quoters. Maybe a new language. I seem to remember hearing on [...]

Hot patching, Radio UserLand, and not Microsoft

When I talk about Radio and my love/hate with it, this is one of the things I absolutely positively adore, fawn over, and plan to mimic in as many of my projects as I can where I can. Back when the Mozilla source code was first released, and I happened to be at a [...]

Thanks, kuro5hin. Decaf is bad. Caffeine is good.

I just had to link to this: A coder’s guide to coffee @ kuro5hin I think I’m going to buy myself a french press tonight. Oh, and just for fun, visit The Caffeine Archive.

I wish Radio sent me blog URLs as referers on news aggregator hits

One more thing, directed at the Radio UserLand crew: With my recent discovery of and mania for referers, I’ve seen that Radio sends me people claiming to have come from http://radio.outliners.com/instantOutliner and http://frontier.userland.com/xmlAggregator, for I/O and news aggregation respectively. Here’s a wishlist idea: Make Radio send the URL to the user’s blog instead of [...]

Today’s referers, PHP, and you! (Okay, maybe not you.)

Playing more with PHP, writing a replacement for ShowReferers. You can view the source of my first attempt ever at a PHP page, or view the results. I just replaced the front page sidebar referers box with an include to this page. Soon, I’ll replace the entire front page template with one [...]