Saturday  2002-04-27   Web of Services

IBM Systems Journal on Web Services

New Developments in Web Services and E-Commerce (IBM Systems Journal Vol. 41, No. 2, 2002) has just come out.

Friday  2002-04-26   Software

sweetcode

To quote: Sweetcode reports innovative free software. "Innovative" means that the software reported here isn't just a clone of something else or a minor add-on to something else or a port of something else or yet another implementation of a widely recognized concept. ... Software reported on sweetcode should surprise you in some interesting way. "I didn't know you could do that" or "I never thought about that problem that way" or "What a strange way to do things".

It also has a RSS feed.

Friday  2002-04-26   Web of Services

RSS Syndication

www.syndic8.com seems to be a good starting point on the subject of RSS.

Feedreader is a simple RSS aggregator for windows (it utilizes Internet Explorer and ActiveX components). HotSheet is another RSS aggregator written in Java and supports WebStart. Unfortunately neither of these tools is production quality yet.

www.larkfarm.com is another good source on RSS. This topic will be covered in more detail in the next few weeks.

Friday  2002-04-26   Web of Services

Nifty URL services

To make a shorter url, use makeashorterlink.com

For example, www.economist.com becomes makeashorterlink.com

Another nifty url service is www.archive.org

• catacombs of dead web pages of the past.

Tuesday  2002-04-23   Policy, Process, Mechanism

Policy, Process, Mechanism

Unlimited, extensible mechanism devised without principles of policy spelled out, invites directionless policy and orderless process.

Tuesday  2002-04-23   Software

ISO 8601 International Standard Date and Time Notation

• Synopsis: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
• An abridged version: International Standard Date and Time Notation by Markus Kuhn
• An unabridged version: ISO 8601 standard (in PDF)

Antville has a date printing option of YYYY.MM.DD, hh:ss format - short notesshould switch to this format soon.
 
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Tuesday  2002-04-23   

short notes

short notes is a journal on software, systems, engineering practices among other things.

• Most notes will be short.
• All notes will be anonymous.
• short notes assumes its readers are at least as smart as its writers if not far more intelligent. Readers are encouraged to comment on notes and sign their comments.
• Another exception to anonymous notes will be signed notes by invited writers.
• short notes reserves its right to edit and to delete anything that appears in its publication.