Internet Alchemy

• the ryan king » Introducing Conveyor
  A “distributed, rewindable, virtual queue server”. It speaks HTTP and will soon have a peer-to-peer replication mode. It can be treated like a queue, but because it doesn’t actually get rid of any data, you can rewind the queue to any point in the p
  (tags: open source queues scalability http)

• Convert a Mailbox String to its SHA1 Sum
  Dead easy converter courtesy of Tom Heath
  (tags: foaf rdf sha1)

I updated my FOAF file and gave myself a URI: http://iandavis.com/id/me

• W3C Systeam’s blog – W3C’s Excessive DTD Traffic
  The irony is palpable… use HTTP uris… oh hang on we’re getting 130 million requests a day for something that never changes… whoops
  (tags: w3c web traffic caching uri http)
• alan.dean’s bookmarks tagged with “Roy.Fielding” on del.icio.us
  The collected works of Roy Fielding
  (tags: rest http web)
• RDF API for Drupal 6.x | groups.drupal.org
  Drupal gets RDF with RDF/JSON too
  (tags: rdf php api drupal)
• rest-client – Google Code
  RESTClient is a Java platform client application to test RESTful webservices. It can be used to test variety of HTTP communications.
  (tags: rest java http test)
• County Data For the British Isles
  (tags: geodata data uk counties)

• Annotation (Harper’s Magazine): Keyword: Evil
  Blueprint of a Google data center. I quite like the building labelled “transient employee dormitory”
  (tags: google center data)

• Official Google Research Blog: This year’s scalability conference
  June 14th in Seattle
  (tags: conference scalability research google)
• Complex Diagrams » Generation of Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of Spaghetti
  (tags: visualization diagrams data)

• famfamfam.com: Icons
  Some nice icons under CC licenses
  (tags: icons design web)
• Epeus’ epigone: The Social Cloud
  Kevin Marks @ LIFT speaking on the “social cloud” (open social)
  (tags: social)
• Slashdot | Semantic Web Getting Real
  Slashdot picks up on the Reuters + SemWeb story
  (tags: semantic-web reuters slashdot rdf)
• Last Rites for DAB Digital radio
  A good example of why technology fails. It primarily solved the broadcaster problem of lack of bandwidth but offered very few tangible benefits for its users, all of which are trumped by the Internet
  (tags: DAB technology failure radio)

• Microsoft’s Colossal Strategic Mistake: “We Need to Be in Advertising” – Silicon Alley Insider
  Corporations are shifting to cloud-computing platforms–Software as a Service vendors like Salesforce.com and NetSuite, Google Apps, etc–but, for the most part, they are not shifting to “free software supported by advertising.”
  (tags: microsoft saas strategy advertising)

• Tenerife Skunkworks: Parsing text and binary files with Erlang
  Erlang does not have a built-in string data type. Strings are simulated on top of lists of integers. In 32-bit Erlang an integer is 4 bytes plud 4 more bytes for a pointer to the next list element: 8 bytes per “character”. In 64-bit this number doubles.
  (tags: erlang programming parsing text)
• Ian Bicking: a blog :: What PHP Deployment Gets Right
  Loads of good points in this article. But the single most important advantage PHO has is: “Working applications stay working”. There’s so little that can go wrong with PHP compared with e.g. a servlet container that these little scripts just go on and on.
  (tags: php advocacy)

• Creating Screencasts with Ubuntu
  Using xvidcap
  (tags: howto reference linux ubuntu screencast)