New Web Links for Use on the “Best Effort” Internet

The Ajax Blog dives into Google™ Pages. They built a sample page—an almost empty page—that produced 20 warnings in my Firefox plug-in, Tidy HTML Validator—and the punch line is: no Google Ads were on the page to cause the warnings! Most of the errors were related to open

elements. I wonder what the Web Standards Project BUZZ crew will say about this…

Scott Hanselman on “XML Tools and Technologies” knocks the ball out of the park on this one. I think he and Carl finally got some chemistry going and the was content really informative. The links related to this show are invaluable.
Java is not designed for CGI. Looking at Java from a PHP-hacker-using-shared-hosting point of view is like looking at a 500-pound commercial oven sitting in front of a hot dog stand. But Pat L. Durante seems to disagree: “Java makes a good language choice for writing CGI programs because it is a purely object-oriented language and offers connectivity to distributed objects and database management systems.” But without a continuously running process you will have to load the virtual machine for every call.
Do Microsoft Money MVPs have a lot of money? Well someone had the time to get back to me about a previous Blog entry.