Wednesday, September 22, 1999

It's time for a fun feature!

Don Box's SOAP FAQ.

Desktop.Com has an outliner. Screen shot.

Dave Rogers on "smart" outliners.

Eric Soroos on next-generation email. He talks about using XML-RPC as a pipe for flowing email. This isn't the first time I've heard this idea. It's intriguing, because sometimes I think it should work the other way, that XML-RPC could use SMTP or POP as its transport. No reason you can't send an XML body for a mail message. But if it flows thru XML-RPC I can access email thru my object database and outliner. I think this is where email belongs.

Hannes Wallnofer, the lead developer for XML-RPC for Java, proposes an approach to the "attributes question".

Jeff Veen introduces XHTML. "Rather than the usual rushing to 'improve' the spec with a few ill-conceived add-ons, the W3C has decided to slow down and fix the broken stuff."

The Seattle Frontier User's Group meets on 9/28.

Salon on Slashdot: "What's really remarkable is how little cash got this ball rolling. According to figures provided in the prospectus, from August to December 1998, Slashdot itself had net revenues of only $18,000."

We had our first big crash on Nirvana. It was going to happen sooner or later. Now was as good as time as any.

For Frontier users I wrote a narrative of the recovery process, and included a set of three scripts that automate a lot, but not all, of the work. As usual, full source is included.

My.UserLand.Com, also running on Nirvana, seems to be fine. It missed a few hours, but it caught up.