Wednesday, February 06, 2002

[Hack the Planet] I'm glad to see Linus Torvalds trying out BitKeeper. 9:43:43 PM

[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] Radio/Apache Axis interop 9:38:30 PM

[The New York Times: Opinion] PayPal and Other Post-Bubble Signs of Life on the Internet. The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone, but companies that take advantage of the unique efficiencies of the Internet show more promise than ever. 9:34:44 PM

[Daypop Top 40] "Basic Survival Techniques for Incarceration" 9:33:43 PM

[IDG InfoWorld] Sun plans to announce Linux strategy 9:32:10 PM

[Slashdot] Google Programming Contest 9:30:52 PM

Don Box: The Importance of Being WSDL. "The idea of having machine-readable contracts is obvious to developers who work in strongly typed programming languages such as Java, Delphi, or C++."  9:27:10 PM

[SJL's Radio Weblog] Second Generation Web Services Paul Prescod of XML.com reports on second generation web services.  I personally think the world needs rich error reporting... you need a detailed description of why the server rejected your call (all of the reasons, not just the first) and suggestions for how to correct it.  Just like when you have to fill out a form on the web, you want it to tell you exactly all the things you did wrong.  Rich Exceptions. 9:21:38 PM

[Wired News] Digging Deep Into Compression. New methods of compressing files are enabling researchers to discover previously unknown sources of information. By Mark K. Anderson. 9:07:44 PM