Whining about Winer and Other Links

In “Building Valid Atom and OPML Is Hard (and It Shouldn’t Be),” DonXML does not want to drink the cool aid. Don, OPML is a cult format until further notice. I attempted to explain why Dave is taking so long to get around to OPML in “Okay! So Dave Winer Speaks Up for His OPML Editor” here in this Blog.

RFC: MetaWeblog API

In “RFC: MetaWeblog API” Dave Winer hits the mark spot on with the MetaWeblog API. This is the Blog-agnostic answer to Blogger™ for Word. I’m going to look into XML-RPC.NET for the .NET Framework.

The Eternal Return of the Professional Web Developer

In “Web Standards and The New Professionalism,” there is a loud and clear call to get rid of table- and image-based positioning in Web design. This stuff is right on the heels of the semantic, div-based redesign of kintespace.com and songhaysystem.com. Whew! I am sure there are few tutorials at lynda.com that are no longer meant for “professionals.”

The UTF8 Encoding Problem

My previous post “PHP/MySQL Character Set Woes” barely scratches the surface of the problems that come with trying to encode Web pages in UTF-8, using tools like PHP and MySQL, which are heavily influenced by the ANSI-based world of Linux. Heck, I’ve seen pages on the MySQL web site with encoding problems. “Character Sets and Collations in General” and “Convert a db to UTF8 after upgrading to MySQL 4.1” are two more links toward some understanding of this issue. Macromedia’s “Unicode normalizations and Byte Order Mark” provides a comfortable overview into Unicode ‘thought.’

An AJAX Application for SQL Server

So I tried QueryCommander and all I found was a tabular data viewer. I’m sure more features will be revealed in future.

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