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martedì 28 ottobre 2003

Eron Wright. From Rowsets and CVS to SQLXML: [..] I think SQLXML is a first step in a revolution in database data interchange.  I like to compare it to the success of XML itself.  XML is nothing but a scheme for encoding structured data in a text file.  It has thoroughly replaced the Comma-Separated-Values (CSV) format because it can capture heirarchical data structures.  Well, the rowset is today the primary format (so to speak) for transferring structured data from a database to a client.  By replacing the rowset with an XML stream, we can enjoy the same benefits as with the  transition away from CSV to XML.  We can now transfer heirarchical (master-detail) data in its natural, normalized state.  There are also performance advantages associated with doing so, not the least of which is increased network efficiency and fewer round-trips.[..] SQLXML Here to Stay. Eron Wright [PDC Bloggers] 9:45:31 PM      comment [] trackback []   Bel post? Si No

sabato 18 ottobre 2003

Jon Udell: A GUI that doesn't embrace linking can never be truly rich 8:51:58 AM      comment [] trackback []   Bel post? Si No

giovedì 16 ottobre 2003

I'm going to follow Paolo advice ;) Mozilla Firebird. I have just downloaded and installed the last release of Mozilla Firebird. I have also installed the Web Developer extension. So far it looks like I might have found my new browser. PS: I have just discovered that typing a name in the address bar and hitting return gets you to the Google's "I'm feeling lucky" result. Basically I can type my friends names instead of an url to get to their weblogs :-) [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] 4:44:39 PM      comment [] trackback []   Bel post? Si No

lunedì 13 ottobre 2003

Tim Bray. A penny for your mail: Another Whack at Spam. This (imaginary) company has a simple business model. It operates a really big password-protected SMTP relay. It sends email from anybody to anybody for 1¢ ($0.01) each. You open an account with them, drop in say $10 and you’ve bought the rights to send 1,000 emails. Or you could set up a monthly billing with your credit card, or whatever. You can’t send more than 100 emails in a day without an (email) exchange to verify that everything’s all right. Every email that it sends it signs digitally. Then, you set up your email client to send all email that hasn’t been signed by SMTP4All or one of its competitors (there couldn’t be more than a couple of hundred) to the junk folder. Then you tell your friends to go and sign up with one of these guys if they want you to get their mail.[ongoing] 10:20:22 PM      comment [] trackback []   Bel post? Si No

sabato 11 ottobre 2003

Aaron Swartz: I want schools to teach critical thinking skills so that future citizens can sort facts out from fiction and are skeptical of claims by both sides. Unfortunately, schools (structurally) [and Churchs ndr] end up teaching the exact opposite — believe (and memorize) whatever is said by authority (the teacher) without questioning and regurgitate it when asked 9:13:08 AM      comment [] trackback []   Bel post? Si No

domenica 5 ottobre 2003

Rael Dornfest on people (mis)evaluation: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. A passage in Michael Lewis's Moneyball I kept returning to: If gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under-valued, who couldn't? [raelity bytes ::] 4:39:47 PM      comment [] trackback []   Bel post? Si No

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