Jason Fried from 37signals gave my favorite Web 2.0 talk about "Less" Notes by Ian Davis. My summary:Five ways to do less 1. Less money: no debt 2. Less people: only three 3. Less time: only do essentials 4. Less abstractions: build what works 5. Less software: fewer features, iterate
.STRUM: Script-Tunneling REST Using Microformats
.STRUM was introduced at Thursday night's Microformats BOF at Web 2.0.Tags: strum, REST, microformats .STRUM is a way to easily do XHTML-RPC via REST URIsby providing a trivial mapping between scripting languages, XOXO lists, and XHTML forms/anchors.Benefits: ? No need to learn/understand network programming ? Trivial to adapt to any scripting language ? Generally only... Continue Reading →
Dr. Ernie at Web 2.0: Oct 5-7
I'm using this article to list the events I plan to attend at Web 2.0 in San Francisco. This should help me plan my attendance at various activities (and others try to find me :-). You can also see my Web2Con page. Wednesday: ? 8:30am - 9:45am From Community to Commerce: The Arrival of Podcasting... Continue Reading →
XOXO Datatypes
This is part of an ongoing discussion about how to encode scripting data structures in XHTML microformats. Clean HTML file XHTML Encodings of XML Schema Datatypes Using XOXO for encoding data structures This documents proposes a standard way to encode the most common XML Schema Datatypes (specifically, those which are natively supported by most scripting... Continue Reading →
The Politics of Legitimate Governance (for OSI)
This letter was originally sent to the Membership Committee of the Open Source Initiative as part of the ongoing discussion regarding membership. In particular, it flowed out of concerns expressed on license-discuss about Governance. I decided to post it publicly, since membership-discuss is apparently not archived publicly.[Note: originally I had posted this another blog, but... Continue Reading →
Welcome to my blog
I don't plan to post here very often, as I have many other blogs, but I needed someplace to post the occasional public technical document. Hi, and welcome to my OpenDarwin blog, 'Earnest Probe-hacker'. My name is actually Ernest Prabhakar, which I realize can be confusing, but I needed something distinctive that captured the "hacker"... Continue Reading →
