MovableBlog: Archives: Pre-Game 7 Links

May 8th, 2003

With nothing better to do before a big Game 7 for the local sports team, here are some links that need to be cleared from my bookmarks and aggregator.

• Employ Open Source Oversight by Thomas Murphy: "Recognize that although initial acquisitions costs might be low or free, ongoing costs to the organization might be equal or greater than those of commercial software."
• KMPings: How To. Good little mini intro on how to setup a Trackback aggregator. Kind of like the sidebar on this site, although mine uses a post set to 'Draft' as its aggregation point. A category would have been a better idea.
• Joshua Kaufman wonders Could Trackback go bigtime? Tim O'Reilly thinks so.
• Social Climbers by Jack Schofield. I'm on the "It's Just Hype" side of the fence. Still, it's interesting hype.
• Living on a knife edge: explains that it's not enough for a site to validate as XHTML, but that it must serve application/xhtml+xml as its Content-Type. I tried the PHP code Mark Pilgrim provides and managed to convince my work's proxy that this weblog was to be downloaded as a file rather than viewed in Internet Explorer. So I went back to a meta tag for the time being.
• Is LazyWeb, I invoke thee an emerging standard for LazyWeb requests? Wouldn't an even lazier approach to the LazyWeb be including an RDF snippet or other metadata in a post or web page, so that a LazyWeb crawler can 'autodiscover' such requests, post them, and automatically link to responses?
• Key security questions that every executive should be able to answer by Eric Cole: " in most situations, reducing the risk [rather than eliminating the risk entirely] is the most practical approach." [via Anton Chuvakin]
• The Great CSS Smackdown: interesting thoughts on not only CSS technology, but technology in general.
• Field Notes: Cool URIs: good resources on designing a URI scheme for your website. See also recent notes on controversies surrounding IRIs.
• Serving XHTML as 'application' or 'text': "'application' on the other hand is made for binary data or data that isn't human readable - or textual data that is marked up with binary or not human readable codes. XHTML is generally not that type of data."
• Bad DB Design Leads To Horrible Code

Okay, almost time for the game.

Posted by Richard at 06:38 PM

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Posted by: Erik on May. 8th, 2003 at 7:38 PM.

Posted by: Richard on May. 8th, 2003 at 9:43 PM.

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