Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!

Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:16:53 GMT

Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:15:17 GMT

It's time that SOAP had a directory.

Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:15:05 GMT

I'm taking a few minutes to explore the NASDAQ stock-quote-in-XML service. Looks like a tremendous amount of thought has gone into this service. One of the elements of the quote record is the logo and url for the company. So it's a directory of images as well as numeric stock data.

Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:05:31 GMT

Eric Yeh: XML-RPC for Tcl. Client and server.

Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:03:24 GMT

Intel CEO, Craig Barrett, quoted in the NY Times: "You never save your way out of a recession, the only way to get out of a recession stronger than you went into it is to have great new products."

Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:10:25 GMT

Builder.Com: An Introduction to SOAP. Nice!

Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:09:42 GMT

Radio: SOAP-in-Radio Checklist.

Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:03:33 GMT

Miguel de Icaza is working on SOAP-for-Gnome. Bravo! Scroll to the end of this News.Com article for clues. Also gotta include a plug for KDE, which is a longtime supporter of XML-RPC.

Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:39:38 GMT

Ole and Lena visit NY, caught in traffic on East 46th. A homeless person starts washing the windshield. Ole rolls down the window. "Eh how's it going?" he says. "Ohhh it's OK. Hey where are you folks from?" Ole says "Ohh we're from Minnesota." "Ohhh Minnesota, I've been there. Had the worst sex of my life in Minnesota." Lena leans over. "What's he saying Ole?" "Ohhh he says he knows you Lena."

Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:25:28 GMT

Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:02:05 GMT

Hello this is a test post via email to my handsome Radio blog. Here are 20 random state names: Mississippi, Arkansas, Hawaii, Oklahoma, California, Iowa, South Carolina, Arkansas, Nevada, Florida, Kentucky, Connecticut, Idaho, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Dakota, New Mexico, Kentucky, Maryland.

Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:00:45 GMT

Hello this is a test post via email to my handsome Radio blog. Here are 20 random state names: California, Colorado, Missouri, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana, Utah, Montana, South Carolina, New York, Illinois, Alabama, California, Iowa, North Dakota, Montana, New Hampshire, Kansas, Oklahoma.

Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:54:57 GMT

Hello this is a test post via email to my handsome Radio blog at + 2/24/2001; 8:54:48 AM.

Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:14:28 GMT

A candidate for a new Scripting News motto: "There's no such thing as a winnable war, it's a lie we don't believe anymore."

Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:08:19 GMT

DaveNet: Ohhh Napster!

Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:16:36 GMT

AP: "Napster offered $1 billion to the recording industry Tuesday to settle the copyright infringement suit that threatens to shut down the free Internet song-swapping service."

Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:50:37 GMT

Stop the presses. I just got a fantastic email from Eric Raymond with a draft of a chapter he's writing on the art of Unix programming. He says "XML-RPC is very much in the Unix spirit. It's deliberately minimalist but nevertheless quite powerful." My response.

Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:50:12 GMT

Gigaideas: SOAP Client for PHP.

Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:11:47 GMT

White Mesa: SOAP for RPC NT Service.

Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:48:52 GMT

Dylan Tweney on the P2P conf: "So, what's the business model for this thing? Who knows? Who cares! This is cool!"

Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:48:25 GMT

Jeff Barr explains how he evangelizes RSS.

Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:59:36 GMT

Dylan Tweney on the P2P conf: "So, what's the business model for this thing? Who knows? Who cares! This is cool!"

Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:09:33 GMT

TheGlobe.com faces Nasdaq delisting. CNET Feb 14 2001 11:12PM ET

Tue, 13 Feb 2001 03:34:40 GMT

Hey I got an email from Pete Dako who was Rookie of the Year in the Frontier community in 1992. Nice to hear from an oldtimer. He did the production for the Frontier 3.0 docs, for love, very little money. That was back when we printed docs on dead trees. Them was the days. Come sit on my knee, I'll tell you all about it.

Tue, 13 Feb 2001 03:33:50 GMT

Josh Allen: "Well, chips are just software that has been compiled into silicon, and strangely, when you compile your code into silicon, you don't have the same crowd yelling at you to GPL it."

Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:04:02 GMT

KnowNow: "Powering the Two-Way Web."

Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:01:40 GMT

US federal appeals court: "Napster may be held liable for contributory copyright infringement only to the extent that Napster knows of specific infringing files with copyrighted musical compositions or sound recordings, knows or should have known that the files are available on the Napster system, and fails to act to prevent the distribution of copyrighted materials.''

Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:10:12 GMT

RealBasic brings quick app-making to MacOS X. Carbon-coding made easy

Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:31:39 GMT

I went for a hike yesterday with Paul Andrews up by the Stanford Dish, we caught a rainbow, and he took a picture of me in front of it. Why did I put my hands up like that? I thought maybe the rainbow would fit between them.

Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:08:00 GMT

Reuters: Appeals Court to Rule on Napster Today.

Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:21:19 GMT

Simon Fell started a SOAP Manila site, and is documenting stuff there. And he's getting his SOAP implementation to work with Manila's SOAP interface. I am breathing a sigh of relief. It's starting to really work!

Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:37:43 GMT

Dan Gillmor: I sent another e-mail to an Amazon PR person -- that's three so far -- asking whether the company has filed for a patent on its Honor System payment method. Still no reply.

Fri, 09 Feb 2001 18:11:22 GMT

I spoke this morning with a Rights and Contracts manager at the New York Times, and she asked us to stop reading their XML newsfeeds, as described on this page. We have complied with their request.

Fri, 09 Feb 2001 14:05:23 GMT

WebTools: Creating an RSS Channel. "By any name, RSS means really simple syndication."

Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:17:29 GMT

Forbes: Linking Like Minds. There is no shortage of people willing to freely give their time to their favorite sites, and certainly, companies are quick to reap the benefits. Mindful of the legal pitfalls, executives are hiring consultants to show them new ways to involve volunteers online without incurring liability.

Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:06:11 GMT

Implant Achieves Female Orgasm. A device used to treat back pain has a pleasing side-effect, causing women to have an orgasm. A doctor-inventor has patented the device which would work in tandem with a remote control.

Wed, 07 Feb 2001 13:59:00 GMT

Sun and Microsoft sittin in a tree. A-R-G-U-I-N-G.

Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:34:49 GMT

Jason Levine has a concern about the Blogging feature in Radio UserLand (coming soooon!). It's been discussed, and it's one of the reasons we added a new <source> element in RSS 0.92. I'm not planning on using the feature myself, and as a prolific blogger, I'm going to be on the other end of the pipe, and it's OK with me if people crib my notes and add their comments as long as they point back to me (which is an automatic feature of Radio's blogger). The AppleSurf guy, Heng-Cheong Leong, raised a concern about this first. I've also been keeping Lawrence Lee of Tomalak up to date. I think we have the bases covered, but if someone doesn't want to participate, it's easy to opt-out, don't syndicate via RSS.

Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:19:33 GMT

McNealy: Going for all the marbles. CNET Feb 6 2001 3:24PM ET

Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:50:43 GMT

A new callback for Manila sites.

Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:50:03 GMT

Reuters: "Pope John Paul is considering naming Saint Isidore of Seville the patron saint of Internet users and computer programmers, Vatican sources said on Tuesday."

Tue, 06 Feb 2001 14:04:41 GMT

News.Com: Amazon debuts Honor System. Dubbed the Amazon Honor System, the new payment method will allow Web sites to solicit small donations from visitors or charge for content on a pay-per-view basis. The system will tie into Amazon's one-click payment feature and Amazon's customer database... (Shouldn't we ask first if they've taken out a patent on this?)

Sun, 04 Feb 2001 19:33:47 GMT

Glenn Fleishman: Yaahoooooo--argh! Genuine People Personalities. A couple days ago, they completed the branding switchover, so that it's now Yahoo! Groups. This kind of thing happens all the time in the dot com world. But with Yahoo's typical response to feedback, they've already made some large blunders.

Sun, 04 Feb 2001 00:02:11 GMT

We got themes working in our Blogging on the Desktop software. It's a mini-version of Themes in Manila. With two mouse-clicks I was able to transform my Handsome Radio Blog into a rough clone of Jake's Brainpan. Now I can say I'm just like Jake! Coooool.

Sat, 03 Feb 2001 21:18:07 GMT

The work on RSS 0.92 continues. Today there's a new <category> element. We plan to use it at UserLand to link RSS with directories, but there are other uses for it, by people who know more about taxonomies. As usual the goal has been to retain simplicity while adding features to make new applications possible.

Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:41:03 GMT

UserLand's SOAP 1.1 Validator. This approach worked really well for finding the incompatibilities between XML-RPC implementations. Let's find out if we work together!

Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:46:59 GMT

Perl.Com: Quick Start with SOAP.

Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:46:14 GMT

An early draft of the RSS 0.92 spec.

Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:11:11 GMT

Christian Langreiter has validated XML-RPC client-server for K.

Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:04:36 GMT

Brent documented the new xml.rss verbs in Frontier 7. These verbs are the core of My.UserLand, so now it's easy to build your own RSS-based aggregator with Frontier.