A couple of weeks ago, oddmonster and I took a trip along a different section of the Winooski — putting in at the bottom of the Bolton dam, and taking out at the Community Green in Richmond, VT. Oddmo tells […]
The appearance of Google’s desktop footprint is significant for two reasons. The minor reason is that it’ll be useful. The major reason is that it validates the local-web-server + browser-UI approach to applications.
Yesterday Bloglines announced their API, which is a RPC/REST interface to their core functionality: unread message count, subscribed feeds / items and blogrolling. While the service URL is http://rpc.bloglines.com/<whatever>, they’re also using HTTP rather directly, specifically in terms of authentication […]
Yesterday, oddmonster and I took a trip down a section of the lower Winooski. The original plan was to put in just after the dam at the Winooski bridge — which we cross twice daily — and to run the […]
As I mentioned before, I had my second homebrewing experience not too long ago, and the first one to bear fruit … or … beer, as it were. There was a good 8 days of fermentation, which was actually longer […]
Two examples of nifty information design I saw today: The Periodic Table of Perl (via lemonodor ). The recipe descriptions at cookingforengineers.com. Information design is one of those things that involves talent, time, passion and creativity, and “a good eye” […]
The oddmonster was kind enough to get me a homebrew starter kit approximately a year ago, though it took me nearly 9 months to actually sit down and use the thing. I pitched the original yeast which came with the […]
Update, 2005.07.07 … I’ve neglected to mention that a long time ago, Roy Fielding corrected me about this. These are really levels of HTTP, not REST. REST has two very different meanings, at least to me. I’ve never really seen […]
Random evening http://del.icio.us/ browsing brought be across http://www.mnot.net/python/http/, which is awesome. I was having similar fun over the weekend utilizing python’s support for overriding the behavior of the dictionary-syntax with __{get,set,del}item__. It’s a similar type of beauty as the constrained […]
The New York Times reaches about 1.5 million people. This posting is possibly of interest to two dozen. But the difference between my blog and the NYT is that my post will reach those two dozen :) — raph