I’ve been meaning to write this post for a few weeks now, but I’ve just been too busy. Now that I’m finally starting to get a bit more caught up (and after I thought about it again today when using Windows XP on VMWare to access ROS) I figured I’d better write it.
Previously, I’d figured out a way to convince ROS to work under Linux. What I didn’t realize at the time, was that it only works on 32-bit Linux and not 64-bit. Read the rest of this entry »
The question regarding “meaningful” or “human friendly” URIs comes up a lot if you’re trying to design a Website or Web-accessible information architecture (including a Web service). This subject came up again recently on the SOA mailing list (I didn’t see the beginning of the thread, but this is where I started paying attention).
There are some key points about URIs and opacity that anyone who’s really going to the trouble to design them should keep in mind (originally presented by Dan Connolly at a W3C event back in 2001):
Basically, don’t peek inside the URI. Read the rest of this entry »
No, I’m not dead, and no, this blog isn’t abandoned—more like neglected… Read the rest of this entry »
Needless to say that the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 has been a little hectic. Most sane people wouldn’t try to move house, start a company and have a baby all at the same time, but nobody in this household ever made many claims to sanity. 
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