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April 2007

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Quiet Bush Aide Seeks Iraq Czar, Creating a Stir - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/washington/30hadley.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=eab635b14d667a9a&ex=1335585600&partner=rssuserland
"the idea that the national security adviser is subcontracting responsibility for the nation’s most pressing foreign policy crisis — and must recruit someone of stature to get the attention of the cabinet — is provoking criticism of Mr. Hadley himse
#hadley #iraq #politics #war
archive.org #9007

Flex:Open Source - Adobe Labs

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source
"Adobe is announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes not only the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released
#adobe #flash #flex #mpl #opensource
archive.org #8989

Ned Batchelder: Xss with utf-7

http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/20070421T080434.html
"The resulting page doesn't have any explicit declaration of its character set, so depending on your browser settings, the browser may try to auto-detect the character set, and seeing the distinctive UTF-7 byte sequences, will choose UTF-7. In UTF-7, the
#ugh #utf-7 #webdev #xss
archive.org #8971

Tips for Web 3.0

http://dannyayers.com/docs/web3.0-tips
"Whether or not it's possible to list Best Practices in this space, I think it most definitely is possible to identify ways in which developers of such systems can maximise their impact on release. Whatever the particular business model or target audience
#web20 #web30 #webdev
archive.org #8966

Apple: A Romance - Buzz Andersen

http://buzz.vox.com/library/post/leaving-apple.html
"It was in August of 2003, you see, that I fulfilled a longtime dream: I left Denver (my birthplace and home of 26 years) for California, started a job at Apple Computer (as it was then known), and set about reinventing myself."
#apple #buzz #memoir
archive.org #8963

tecosystems » Piping RedMonk.com

http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/18/piping-redmonkcom
"With the overwhelming majority of our content available in one syndicated form or another, I can see an increasing demand for Pipes style filtering and recombination. I doubt, in other words, that this particular business problem is the last one I’ll s
#aggregators #pipes #rss #xml #yahoo
archive.org #8937

XProc: An XML Pipeline Language

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070405#components
"An XML Pipeline specifies a sequence of operations to be performed on a collection of XML input documents. Pipelines take zero or more XML documents as their input and produce zero or more XML documents as their output."
#pipelines #xml #xproc
archive.org #8935

XProc Implementation

http://norman.walsh.name/2007/04/18/xprocImplementation
"In the intervening months since I first mentioned my plans to implement XProc, I've ripped it apart and started over twice. Third time, it seems, really is a charm."
#xml #xproc
archive.org #8934

Modded Recumbent Bikes Rip Through NASA Ames -

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/04/hpvrace
"Send someone to NASA Ames Research Center, and they're sure to expect rocket scientists and spaceships. But on a recent rainy morning, more than 100 budding engineers raced around Moffett Field on bikes for the annual Human Powered Vehicle Challenge."
#bikes #nasa
archive.org #8930

The Yuk-Factor

http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/yuk_factor.htm
"Habit and familiarity have a great deal (though not everything) to do with what people find disgusting but very little to do with ethics. ... Disgust is good clean fun and provides endless amusement for children, but it's worthless as a moral compass."
#ethics #morality #philosophy
archive.org #8916

mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Who Gives Away Books Online? "Scabs," Says Prominent Sci-Fi Writer

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/web_tech/who_gives_away_books_onlinescabs_says_prominent_scifi_writer_57030.asp
"This happens much more quickly now, sometimes at head-spinning speed. The downside is more bad writing is making it out there onto the internet; the upside is that good writers can find an audience, too. The other downside, of course, is that you might n
#copyfight #podcasting #scifi #writing
archive.org #8912

PHPUnit - Trac

http://www.phpunit.de
"a member of the xUnit family of testing frameworks and provides both a framework that makes the writing of tests easy as well as the functionality to easily run the tests and analyse their results."
#php #testing #webdev
archive.org #8876

Know Your Lore Special: The Caverns of Time Southshore Easter egg hunt - WOW Insider

http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/04/08/know-your-lore-special-the-caverns-of-time-southshore-easter-eg
"The point of the Caverns of Time: Durnholde instance is to go into Durnholde Keep, free Thrall, and fight off some dragons. You can get some pretty nice mid-60s items there. But for those of a more explorative mindset, the real gem of this instance is Ol
#burningcrusade #eastereggs #gaming #southshore #wow
archive.org #8845

Tom Morris: Tuesday, April 03, 2007

http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris/2007/04/03#When:1:16:58PM
"I have a funny feeling that I will be the last blogger who writes untitled posts. Even Dave has left, and the Atom folks have written us out of the specification (title is required in Atom 1.0). Boo hoo. We still exist, by the way."
#atom #metablogging #rss
archive.org #8829