Talking at the 4th Friday cabal today with William, Wendy, and Matt. As always, wediscussed a wide array of topics. Remember when you discovered Napster, and the magic of discovering music new and old?Isall beauty relative,and if not, why can you not intellectually explain why one piece of music is beautiful and another is not? […]
[Via Sean Palmer] Ted Nelson explains why XML is evil.He concludes,?I don’t mind people using it as long as they don’t believe in it. We need to keep looking for neutral representation that can represent any structure whatever without warping or surplus meaning.?
Ted often suffers from ?Not Invented Here, Try My Stuff Instead? syndrome and […]
Patrick Logan critiques the nullable value types in C#. I have to admit, I was a major advocate of this feature. It not only makes mapping to relational data easier, it makes mapping to XML/XSD easier. And if your code doesn’t manipulate data (as relational or XML), then what does it do?!?
His comments about testing […]
Oracle says all 9,000 developers will be switched to using Linux as primary development environment by next year. I think this is fairly credible. This might help improve the quality of the Linux versions of Oracle software.
Scoble likes the orange XML icon. The icon is OK for 1999, but I’d like to see all of the little orange icons (and the blue ones, too) disappear within the next five years.
For RSS to be truly mainstream, subscribing to a web page needs to be a simple as printing. When I want to […]