| 1. |  | RSS vs. The Web  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
This is not my debate alone, the basic question is, is an RSS feed a replacement for the website or an entry point to it? Should I optimize for making the RSS feed the best I possibly can, or put my work into the website itself instead?
Full article ==> RSS vs. The Web
From: myShoggoth |
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| 2. | | The Joys of CSS - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
I don't know the exact name of the group of people who hold similar XHTML + CSS views as I do (other than 'snobs' or 'impractical'), but there's not only a certain amount of style and simplicity to it, but practical application as well. This site's design is not as much a culmination of my CSS knowledge as much as an intersection between it plus my personal aesthetic.
The original intention of this site was to explore ideas around XHTML and CSS and web sites created with those plus the to...
From: myShoggoth |
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| 3. | | Welcome back Wensday - Captured: 1-12-2004 17:54:35
Jon Udell introduces me to Amtrak Julie, who has been "outed"
by the New York Times and to the NPR
segment where they have Tom the flight information guy meet Julie called Modern
Love.
Even better is this german forklift
safety video.
Cnet talks about web
based remote record for MCE.
JWZ points to disclaimer
stickers for science textbooks.
First, party and person fidelity pledges, blocking
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From: Doubt's Log |
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| 4. | | Why Choose Microsoft for your Portal? - Captured: 14-1-2005 10:51:00
Whether you're a business or technical decision maker, it's important to think about what's important to your organization when making a software decision. For most companies, software is an enabler of business. That is to say, your company is probably not in the business of making/developing software, but rather using software to run your business. Since I'm most familiar with the Portal space, my remarks are specific to Portal software. Nevertheless, many of the same suggestions and concepts a...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 5. | | SharePoint Extranet Solutions - Captured: 24-11-2004 8:29:00
Yes. You can deploy SharePoint solutions on the Extranet. I know several small and large customers who either have deployed a SharePoint solution externally or are in the process of doing so. A few months ago, we released a whitepaper relevant to partners and customers who want to deploy WSS on the Extranet. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/revproxy.mspx. There are several other resources, one of which, is a web cast that y...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 6. | | SharePoint MSDN RSS Feed - Captured: 24-11-2004 8:00:00
We hosted an Architect Portals Bootcamp last week in the Seattle area. I was impressed with the different projects the architects were involved with. However, one thing that I did notice, based on comments and questions some of the attendees had when I spoke to them, is that many folks out there are not familiar with all the whitepapers we post on sites such as MSDN and TechNet. With the growing popularity of RSS and to make it easier for people to get notified when a new whitepaper is rel...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 8. | | Searching Through Video and Audio Content - Even With MSN - Captured: 29-1-2005 18:47:05
Video search engines have been getting quite the hype this week as Yahoo! and Google introduced
a video search engine to the public. But wait, only Google truely searches in video
content. Yahoo! only searches through images names and basic meta data. But if you
think they are pioneering anything at all, you are quite wrong. At least HP
has been providing the same service long before.
So audio mining has been around since some time, even for your own use,&...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 9. | | Meeting physical force with soul force - Captured: 17-1-2005 10:46:00
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has a special place in my heart. My first Web site for The Seattle Times was a site we built in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I worked with editor Bill Ristow, who, like many who work with me, stared at me as though I were a maniac. :) And I was. We did this site because Frank Blethen, publisher of the paper, has always felt strongly about educating the public about Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. and about supporting the holid...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 10. | | Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam - Captured: 22-12-2004 11:33:00
I was surprised a few years back when James, a friend of mine, introduced me to what looked like "Spam sushi" - nori seaweed paper rolled around sushi-vinegared rice and a big long hunk of spam. I made the normal protests ("I'm too hip and cool for this Spam business ") and then shut the <blank> up and tried it. It....was.....AMAZING. I couldn't believe it. The official Hawaiian dish is called Spam musubi and you can find a recipe here, but you should really follow the traditional s...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 11. | | What would you want out of Master Page templates? - Captured: 7-1-2005 11:57:00
I need your help. I've been trying to figure out what a set of master page templates / themes would look like to help people easily build attractive web sites -- But I'm struggling to figure out if there is a need for this and if there is what you all would want. The initial vision was to create 10 unique page layouts -- think 3 column layouts, 2 column layouts, etc. that each have five unique color schemes. These layouts would be simple Master page files using CSS to control the lay...
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 13. | | ASP.NET 2.0 product design changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2 - Captured: 15-11-2004 19:07:00
Today the Web Platform and Tools Team is proud to announce two product design changes made directly in response and in conjunction with community feedback. The changes, detailed below are focused around two key areas. First, in September, we announced changes to the special private ASP.NET 2.0 directory naming. Based on feedback, we are revising these names. Second, we are making changes to the compilation model in order to enable ASP.NET 1.x like behavior where the .asp...
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 14. | | MSN Groups nog vol met extremisme  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:06:55
Ondanks verwoede pogingen extremistische uitingen op het web te bannen, zijn er in MSN-groepen nog altijd legio jihad-oproepen te vinden.
From: Webwereld |
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| 15. | | Indigo: the future of asmx/wse/es/msmq/remoting - Captured: 8-2-2005 19:35:52
I
just finished watching Eric Rudder’s keynote on Indigo at VS Live in
San Francisco
. As with all keynotes, it had glitz and glamour and gave a high-level view of what
Microsoft is thinking.
(for those who don’t know, Eric
is the Microsoft VP in charge of developer-related stuff including Indigo)
Among the various things discussed
was the migration roadmap from today’s commun...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 16. | | Can a Service have Tiers? - Captured: 4-2-2005 6:32:50
One last post on SOA from my coffee-buzzed,
Chicago-traffic-addled mind.
Can a Service have Tiers?
Certainly a Service can have layers.
Any good software will have layers. In the case of a Service these layers will likely
be:
1. Interface
2. Business
3. Data
access...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 17. | | SOA really is just RPC with angle-brackets - Captured: 4-2-2005 5:59:31
I am afraid that
I'm rapidly becoming more convinced than even
Ted that
SOA == web services == RPC with angle brackets.
The more people
I talk to, the more I realize that virtually no one is actually talking about service-oriented
analysis, architecture or design. They are using SOA as a synonym for web services,
and they are using web services as a replacement for DCOM, RMI, remoting or whatever
RPC protocol they used before.
I think th...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 18. | | Remoting vs Web Services vs ES/COM+/DCOM - Captured: 4-2-2005 5:11:20
I’ve hashed and rehashed this topic
numerous times. In particular, read this and this.
But the debate rages on, paralyzing otherwise perfectly normal development teams in
a frenzy of analysis paralysis over something that is basically not all that critical
in a good architecture.
I mean really. If you do a decent
job of architecting, it really doesn’t matter a whole hell of a lot which RPC protocol
you use, because you can alwa...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 19. | | Web services, DataSets and now...Business Objects - Captured: 24-1-2005 17:10:21
Sahil has some interesting
thoughts on the web service/DataSet question as well.
He spends some time discussing whether
“business objects” should be sent via a web service. His definition of
“business object” doesn’t match mine, and is closer to Fowler’s
data transfer object (DTO) I think.
It is important to remember that
web services only move boring data. No
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From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 20. | | More on web services and DataSet objects - Captured: 24-1-2005 16:13:49
OK, so Shawn has some good
points about the use
of a DataSet for the purpose of establishing a formal contract for your web service
messages. This is in response to my previous
entry about not using
DataSets across web services.
The really
big distinction between using web services for SO vs n-tier remains.
If you are doing SO, you need to
clearly define your message schema, and that schema m...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 21. | | Thoughts on passing DataSet objects via web services - Captured: 24-1-2005 4:06:20
Every now and then the question
comes up about whether to pass DataSet or DataTable objects through a web service.
I agree with Ted
Neward that the short
answer is NO!!
However, nothing is ever black and
white…
For the remainder of this discussion
remember that a DataSet is just a collection of DataTable objects. There’s no
real difference between a...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 22. | | 20 Year Usenet Timeline - Captured: 10-1-2005 16:45:59
Google has released a 20
year timeline of usenet newsgroup history, highlighting notable events along the
way.
I find it very interesting to see the history of the “world's largest BBS“.
Personally I got involved in usenet in 1989 or 1990. I was working for a bio-medical
manufacturing company, and managed to convince a local defense contractor to allow
us to tap a usenet feed off them. The feed came through our 1200 baud modem, with
us dialing...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 23. | | George Soros...leftist billionaire commie hater whos destroying America...one 527 at a time. - Captured: 1-2-2005 6:50:21
George Soros is a Billionaire investment
capitalist who came to the attention of millions of Americans for the first time with
his 527 organization MoveOn.Org. From
where I’m sitting, George seems like kind of a nut-job and an egomaniac…but
then anyone who comes up with his own civil philosophy, and then spends billions of
dollars promoting it around the world would have to be…wouldn’t he? And
frankly, he’s the egomaniacal nu...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 24. | | My service to Humanity - Captured: 27-1-2005 17:02:11
Here’s
a site that let’s you know how a particular company scored on human rights and
environmental concerns in the U.S as well as globally You can also compare them
with their competitors, and make certain that your dollars are going to support the
kinds of things that are important to you and your community. Also...they list
known subsidieries and allied companies, to help you untangle the maze:
&n...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 25. | | Ask Jeeves - Google Local - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
Ask Jeeves now has a blog with JeevesGuy unmasked! Also via WMW:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web search provider Ask Jeeves Inc. (Nasdaq:ASKJ - news) on Thursday posted sharply higher profit and revenue, helped by strong Web search advertising and an acquisition last year that roughly doubled its size. Oakland, California-based Ask Jeeves said net income from continuing operations rose to $17.1
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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