Archive for June, 2003

Homewood Bound

Friday, June 27th, 2003

We’re off to Homewood, California (Lake Tahoe’s west shore, 15 minutes south of Tahoe City) for a week long R&R. Should be nice weather, although there is a possibility of “isolated” thunderstorms on Monday… hmmm. Hopefully, it doesn’t happen while we’re trying to find this geocache.
Anyway, I probably won’t be blogging at all [...]

A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites

Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

This is more of a note to self… this website (A List Apart) is a great design resource for web designers. This is one of Jeffrey Zeldman’s creations. For those of you who don’t know Jeffrey Zeldman, you can read his bio here. In a nutshell, he’s a well known, respected, and [...]

Grassroots Movement for a New Syndication Standard

Tuesday, June 24th, 2003

Mena Trott’s (co-founder/creator of Moveable Type) post on Six Log today points to a movement to come up with a new syndication format that hopes to overcome the shortcomings of RSS. RSS has a long and somewhat embarrassing history (Mark Pilgrim has been writing about RSS quite a bit for a while now… lots [...]

Caching, Compression, etc.

Monday, June 23rd, 2003

Simon’s got me thinking a lot about caching schemes lately. PeopleSoft’s applications has multiple levels of caching built in… a necessary thing for any enterprise application. It’s got file and memory based application/business component metadata level caching on the appserver, portal data (registry tree and content) memory based cache on the webserver (for [...]

The Talking Blog

Thursday, June 19th, 2003

Would you rather hear a blog or read it? If you would like your blog to speak to your audience, you’ll find this mildly amusing.
I ran across this on C:\PIRILLO.EXE’s site this morning. Pretty funny. Chris doesn’t deserve the credit here though… Loyd thought this up. The technology behind it is [...]