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 →

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 →

I've been noodling some more about how to clarify the concepts behind STRUM, and particularly how it relates to REST. I've stripped the idea down further to something I call DETH: like REST, but more so. 🙂 DETH = Dictionaries Encoding/Transmitting HTML. I've started mocking it up on the forms-brainstorming page:http://microformats.org/wiki/forms-brainstorming DETH is intended to... Continue Reading →

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 →

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 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 →

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 →

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 →