Thursday, 15th February 2007
Les Orchard: “Web 3.0 will have Galactica-style angled corners.” (via) Here’s hoping. # 10:35 pm
Automated Translation of Java to Python. java2python can translate most Java code in to non-idiomatic Python, using ANTLR for the heavy lifting. # 3:50 pm
We don’t yet accept OpenID identities within our products as a relying party, but we’re actively working on it. That roll-out is likely to be gradual.
— John Panzer, AOL # 11:33 am
AOL and OpenID. http://openid.aol.com/your-screenname now works as an OpenID, for every AOL user. Wow. # 11:27 am
The bright side: web spam is an evolutionary force that pushes relevance innovations such as trustrank forward. Spam created the market opportunity for Google, when Altavista succumbed in 97-98. Search startups should be praying to the spam gods for a second opportunity.
— Rick Skrenta # 11:15 am
Content delivery system design mistakes. Collection of tips for optimising Web server performance. Mentions lighttpd/nginx, Keep-Alive, expires headers, noatime and more. # 11 am
PHP and “OpenID authentication failed: Bad signature”. If you’re seeing a “Bad signature” error in your PHP OpenID application it could be down to a miscompiled GMP library. # 10:02 am
Rails 1.2.1 Impression. I hadn’t seen assert_select before, which lets you unit test generated HTML using CSS selectors; a really neat idea. # 9:14 am
IE and 2-letter domain-names (via) IE won’t let you set a cookie on XX.YY, where YY is anything other than .pl or .gr. Other browsers have better exception lists. # 12:33 am
Introducing RDFa. A way of representing RDF triples in XML that doesn’t suck. # 12:22 am