idea:schema2class using breve and metaclass

I’m sorry this renders so poorly. WordPress won’t let me use CSS, so I’m stuck, until I get a proper site of my own.
Try either http://deadbeefbabe.org/paste/4031 or http://pastebin.ca/399774 to see it better.
“”" An experiment using breve xml library, and metaclass.

Author: Ben West
Email: bewest at gmail
blog: http://bewest.wordpress.com/

I hang out on freenode.

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reminiscing: pdq bach and serpents

I started whistling the “O Serpent” song today, and felt compelled to inform my roommates of all the information I had on it. In researching, I came across Doug Yeo’s site, and his PDQ Bach web page. I started reading, expecting general information about serpents and PDQ Bach, but it was mostly about [...]

ec2 is nifty

I saw this http://www.zeroflux.org/blog/post/view?id=224 really neat ec2 setup to balance load across an ec2 vpn connected to a real “master”.

microformats: process discussion: search results as evidence

Before creating a microformat, the process demands a couple of
concrete actions to be taken first. The general idea is to document
current authorship techniques. If current techniques make it possible
to encode a piece of information, there is no need for a microformat.
Thus, we set ourselves up to make it difficult to create a format.
The [...]

implementing email over atom pub

It would be kind of neat to refactor email into a web style system which conforms to atom publishing protocol.
POP3 could be a type of store. When a user wants to check their email, their email client software could ask the atom server “GET /email/messages?start=yesterday%20afternoon&count=100“. The server would respond with a list of [...]

bad amazon recommendations

Anyone know if/how I can tell amazon to never show me microsoft products, among other things?

atom pub, gdata, and one way to improve amazon+alexa

Has anyone tried using Amazon’s “RESTful” webservices? I’ve had many headaches using them. If I’m using PHP, I like to use nuSOAP to access SOAP services, because PHP’s facilities for XML (at least in version 4) are terrible. nuSOAP seems to have interop issues with some of Alexa’s/Amazon’s webservices, so that’s a [...]

improving HTML

The W3C has restructured some working groups in the Interaction Domain. The new HTML working group is co-chaired by Dan Connolly of W3/MIT and Chris Wilson from Microsoft.
Both WHATWG and W3C are pursuing an improvement in HTML while simultaneously adding new features. My reading of charts seems to indicate the following:

WHATWG is focusing [...]

issue 42

I chuckled a bit at issue 42 over at the TAG.

s-expression templating in python

I’m constantly on the hunt for the perfect templating module. When I was much younger, primarily doing PHP, I quickly saw that string concatenation and variable interpolation were not good solutions when trying to author lots of complex documents. I did some searching, and found Smarty, which satisfied my needs at that time. [...]