Archives for the "XML" tag
Google Ping
I’ve been spending some time playing around with the Google API and can’t help but think there is a piece missing: That of sending data to Google via this interface. The concept is hardly new as weblog software like mine already sends information out to such services as Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, Blogrolling and Technorati, telling them [...]
In Analysis
Compression, Glorious Compression
I added the XML files and QuickTime movies to the list of things that are now compressed for this site. Expect and even faster TNL.net experience!
Tags: XML
In Personal
It’s all XML in the end
As pointed out, At the end of the day, any XML metadata wrapper around the content of our blog entries will do the job, and it’s trivial to transform one flavor of wrapper to another.. A large part of the purpose of RSS2Necho was to demonstrate that if you have an RSS feed, you can [...]
Tags: XML
In Personal, Technology
Tipping the Edge
Tim O’Reilly recently talked about the evolution of software and how all software should be network aware. While I generally believe that this is true (see my February 2000 article on Hybrid computing), I’d like to make a few comments on Tim’s note. Discoverability and Security The first assumption is that software should be able to [...]
Tags: AOL, API, Microsoft, XML
In Analysis
Usability 101: Learnability
The concept of learnability is a key one to usability design. Basically, it boils down to how easy a system is to learn. This, in turn, can be broken down into five components: familiarity consistency generalizability predictability simplicity Let’s delve further into each of those in more details. Familiarity The concept of familiarity is almost self explanatory. It talks to the way people [...]
Tags: Microsoft, OS, XML, usability
In Technology
Open or Closed?
It seems that the Apple music store is now encrypting their XML files. I’ve confirmed that it is indeed doing so and wonder what this means in terms of changes to the XML files (more info on the content of those XMLs up until yesterday can be found in a previous entry. If anyone out [...]
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