Author: Dr. Ernie

Immigrant, Physicist, Storyteller, and Transformational Christian

TurboGear Demo for Mac OS X AddressBook

To give equal time to my Python friends, here is the source code for a demo TurboGears web application that publishes a Mac OS X Address Book. In addition to TurboGears, this requires pre-installing PyObjc. There is also an Automator action demonstrating XOXO extraction, which requires Tiger. Click [Read More] for information about how it... Continue Reading →

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Comments on OSI License Proliferation

As promised, I posted my summary of community reaction to the OSI's License Proliferation Policy: 1. Yes, License Proliferation is a Problem. 2. Yes, the OSI should do something to discourage it 3. No, these terms should NOT be part of the OSD or the license-approval processClick [Read More] for the full text. Well, as... Continue Reading →

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Rails vs. TurboGear

So, after telling a few of my Python friends about DARC, they all told me I should check out TurboGears as an alternative to Ruby on Rails. I don't really care one way or the other -- the "R" in DARC could stand for "REST" as well as "Rails" -- but here's my take:"There's more... Continue Reading →

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REX: REST-Enabled XHTML

I've just posted a presentation describing a new web-services architecture named "REX":REST-Enabled XHTML This is the technology formerly known as STRUM and DETH. Click [Read More] for the backstory and alternate names. After struggling through a plethora of names: ? STRUM: Script-Tunneling REST Using Microformats ? DETH: Dictionaries Encoding/Transmitting HTML ? XHTML-REST: vs. XML-RPC ?... Continue Reading →

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From LAMP to DARC

You've heard of LAMP?Meet its 21st-century cousin: DARC ? Darwin ? Apache ? Rails ? CoreDataThis is especially cool when combined with microformats. Click [Read more] for a very rough demo script. You can also download the DARCdemo source code. On Mac OS X 10.4:A. Setup 1. Install Xcode Developer Tools 2. Install Ruby on... Continue Reading →

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DETH Python Bindings

Here's an attempt to show how DETH data-structures get mapped onto Python dictionaries.The idea is that as a client I could do something like:=====import dethdict=deth.getDict("http://somesite.com/users/")dict["firstname"]="Ernie"dict["lastname"]="Prabhakar"nextDict=deth.postDict(dict, "http://somesite.com/users/")=====And hopefully something just as simple on the server. It would be nice to have a cgi or something that would turn the url-encoded key-value pairs into a XOXO 'dl'... Continue Reading →

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.STRUM -> DE/TH: The Easy Way to Get REST

STRUM is still too complex. Can we make it simpler?The endgame is always DE/TH: Dictionaries Encoding/Transmitting HTMLorDHTML Encoding/Transmitting Hashtables The way to maximize your happiness is to die to your happinessfor something bigger than your happiness.Click [Read More] for the technical description. DETH is a way to reversibly encode dictionaries in HTML, such that they... Continue Reading →

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Capitalism 2.0

Thoughts on the underlying principles of the Web 2.0 business model: Capitalism 1.0: creating value for shareholders Capitalism 2.0: sustainably creating value for all stakeholders The design pattern for the Web 2.0 business model (aka Capitalism 2.0) is based on authority rather than power: Power comes from acquiring assets Authority comes from giving power away The way to extract value from assets is via creative... Continue Reading →

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