intertwingly

It’s just data

Ignoring Standards

Dare Obasanjo: XML is about interop and availability of off-the-shelf tools that can process it.

I can't help but notice that Dare's RSS 0.91 feed does not have an image tag in flagrant disregard for the specification.

Of course aggregators like Radio's have no problem with such a feed

Heather Ashley Gentile

Congratulations Sam and Sue!

How did that data get there?

C:\>telnet www.markbaker.ca 80
Trying 207.236.3.141...
Connected to markbaker.ca.
Escape character is '^]'.
PUT /2002/09/ HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:47:10 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix)
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>405 Method Not Allowed</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Method Not Allowed</H1>
The requested method PUT is not allowed for the URL /2002/09/index.html.<P>
<HR>
<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.23 Server at www.markbaker.ca Port 80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.

Blosxom 1.0

Rael Dornfest: I'm thrilled to announce the 1.0 release of my Blosxom weblog app.... With the choice of dynamic or static rendering, Blosxom is at the point I'd hoped it'd be when it went 1.0.

Now I have my first dillema. I want to do static rendering for scalability, but in accordance with the teachings of REST, I also want my URI to identify resources that can serve both GETs and POSTs.

Meanwhile, the temptation to ditch Perl for Python is growing...