Which Mobile OS?
3 Nov 2008 7:57pm GMT Daily Wireless asks, "Which Mobile OS?" This one?
Scaling XMPP and Pub/Sub
25 Oct 2008 3:34pm GMT Jack Moffit: "Sorry, Twitter. Until we see some answers, you don’t have data, just a big mouth."I think Jack Moffit, always excellent, is being hard on Alex Payne and the Twitter gang. He is criticising Twitter for restricting access to the firehose - the XMPP stream of events - "tweets" in Twitter parlance. Jack alludes to a strategic reason for this, as in - twitter 'own' the data and therefor should own the derivative value obtained from analysing or reorganising the data. "I...
Observations on Portable Contacts 1.0 Draft C
25 Oct 2008 1:27am GMT The specification is here: http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html. My overall observation is that it's a good idea, but the spec needs a lot work. Herein my initial observationsI'm surprised that a data format spec is tied to XRDS and Oauth. This seems unneccasary and brittle, apart from my opinions, which are XRDS is complex, even when it's called "simple", and Oauth is not a general purpose auth protocol (it excludes user agents). I'm not sure how the "intended goal of widespread...
import antigravity checked in
16 Oct 2008 1:18pm GMT Revision: 66902
Monounsaturated
13 Oct 2008 11:13pm GMT Stephan Schmidt: "Then our converter cannot detect that items is a list" Right. XML is "looser" - it doesn't constrain child elements by design ahead of time (as long as you have the right processing rules). With JSON you have to know whether something is a sequence or not, upfront. Whether this extra coupling matters or not, I'm not sure - JSON isn't just a fat free alternative, it's an optimisation. One outcome is that JSON is never going to replace markup as a documentation format - its...