Author: Dr. Ernie

Immigrant, Physicist, Storyteller, and Transformational Christian

LGAP: Lightweight Grid Access Protocol

Traditional Grid Services have been built on the XML-RPC Model, and require complex tools and frameworks in order to be used at all. This tends to lead to highly structured efforts to force convergence on a single implementation, in order to share the pain -- er, minimize the total investment.There has to be a better... Continue Reading →

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New Microrformats-REST wiki, mailing list

The interest in using microformats with REST has grown so strong, Tantek suggested a new microformats-rest mailing list. http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-rest/I've similarly created a new section of the wiki devoted to these RESTy issues:http://microformats.org/wiki/restI've tried to collect all the relevant rest work from elsewhere on the wiki, as well as external resources (like toydi's excellent preso). I... Continue Reading →

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Packager, Package Thyself

Updated Oct 28: bug fixes, simpler implementation (compatible with 1.1)I've finally finished (I hope 🙂 a long-running project to use DarwinPorts itself to build the DarwinPorts installer. Yeah! The goal is to enable us to use all our existing tools to automate and collaborate on this process.I've uploaded an archive containing all the files: ?... Continue Reading →

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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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