I just noticed today in my blog logs that I’ve been getting referrals to my Well Designed URLs blog post from a website called LOCALHOST80.com. I checked it out and it’s a pretty nice list of resources on a whole ranges of topics of interest to web developers, listed below. It appears they handpicked some …
Wrox’s Professional Web 2.0 Programming
I’m excited as I just got my express delivery of Wrox’s Professional Web 2.0 Programming by Eric van der Vlist, Danny Ayers, Erik Bruchez, Joe Fawcett, and Alessandro Vernet. I’m anxious to read it to learn their take on programming for Web 2.0. I first learned of the book when I noticed in my logs …
What is a RESTafarian?
A RESTifarian is a zealous proponent of the REST software architectural style as defined by Roy T. Fielding in Chapter 5 of his PhD. dissertation at UCIrvine. You can find RESTifarians in the wild on the REST-discuss mailing list. But be careful, RESTifarians can be extremely meticulous when discussing the finer points of REST, as …
Salesforce.com’s URL Structure
For those of you interested in Salesforce.com and their URL structure, useful for making bookmarklets, I documented Saleforce.com’s URL structure over at another blog I maintain entitled Thoughts on Salesforce.com. I also copied that documentation over to my WellDesignedUrls.org wiki with plans to maintain in on an ongoing basis.
About TiddlyWiki
I was listening to one of Scott Hansleman’s podcasts the other day,and in it he mentioned the open source TiddlyWiki so I decided to check it out. For those of you not familiar with wikis yet, have you been living under a rock? (Sorry, just kidding, you can read up on Wikis over at Wikipedia.) …
Announcing WellDesignedUrls.org
Those of you who read my blog know that I strongly believe in the importance of URL design. For years it bothered me that we’ve see so many URLs on the web that look like the following example of poor URL design from Jeffrey Veen‘s 2001 book The Art & Science of Web Design: http://www.site.com/computers.dll?1345,1,,22,567,009a.html …
dasBlog 1.9: Not ready for prime time yet…
I blogged about dasBlog 1.9 on Friday and was planning to upgrade, but I’ve been monitoring the developer list and it seems there are still a few too many little problems to make upgrading a smart proposition, at least for me. Better to wait a bit for the dust to settle.
dasBlog 1.9 Just Released!
Just a few hours ago, dasBlog 1.9 was released! I’ll probably upgrade my blog to use it, hopefully this weekend. It has tons of new features over 1.8 which is what I’m using for this blog at the moment. The following are the new features that I found most interesting: TagCloud Support Support for Mobile …
Finally: Community Server Hosted Edition!
It’s about time! Teligent Systems is finally offering Community Server on a hosted basis! In my experience, trying to install Community Server a total of four times over the past so many years, and .Text before that, I must say it is the most infuriating and difficult to install application I’ve ever come across! The …
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Great Article: 8 steps to serving better (X)HTML
Earlier today I blogged about Tantek Çelik’s talk at The Future of Web Apps so I decided to mosey on over to his blog. There I found this gem: 8 steps to serving better (X)HTML