Ruby CoreData Tutorial

As part of my DARC strategy, I'm working on creating a Rails Adaptor for CoreData. The first step is simply getting CoreData to talk to Ruby. Fortunately, RubyCocoa 0.4.2 adds CoreData support, so this should be doable.I have created a file -- cdcli.rb -- which implements Apple's "Low-Level Core Data Tutorial" in Ruby, resulting in... Continue Reading →

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I never metadata I didn’t like…

Apologies for the bad "Will Rogers meets Brent Spiner" pun. This is to introduce two terms I coined recently: paradata -- metadata inferred based on other metadata For example, knowing that an email from me has a connection to Elk Grove because you have an vCard (somewhere else) that tells you that Ernest Prabhakar lives... Continue Reading →

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AHAH — They’ve Got It!

I am pleased to see that the AJAX-alternative meme "AHAH" -- which I co-developed with Kevin Marks and David Hansson -- has started getting significant airplay, highlighted in a recent microformats blog entry: So if you?ve been wondering what this AJAX stuff is about, take a look at AHAH, you might find it gets you... Continue Reading →

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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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