Xml

XML.com have just published an article I wrote for them last month entitled REST On Rails.

It outlines one approach that I’ve been developing for the API in the BBC programme catalogue. One of the things I like a great deal about Rails is its URL routing and dispatch mechanism…

A new experience today: I’ve done my first bit of paid writing. It’s about del.icio.us again, and it’s on xml.com.

It’s an expanded version of two previous posts previously made to hackdiary. It goes into a little more detail about how the code works, and gives more examples. There’s…

I’m off to XML Europe in a couple of weeks (better get in quick if you’re thinking of going, registration closes April 9th). I’ve been looking at the schedule, which has lots of semantic web goodness in it, and thinking about what talks I’m going to go to. Here’s my list so far

In preparation for a TiVoBot that I’m planning to write as a wrapper for scheduling digital WinTV recordings, I’ve been looking at TV listings data produced by tools from the XMLTV project. I started out using the XML directly and storing it using Berkeley DB XML but soon found (like most…

Often I find I need to pull out a bit of information from a webpage to reuse inside some code. I’ve always done this from the commandline using a combination of wget, HTML TIDY and xsltproc. Recently I’ve been doing the same thing in program code using…

I’ve had a proposal for a paper on RDF and annotating photos accepted for XML Europe 2003. Yay! Here’s what I submitted:

RSS 1.0 (RDF Site Summary) is a well-known XML format commonly used for…

A mail sent to RSS-DEV about work in progress on picdiary and its use of RSS for cataloguing photos.

Subject: Re: [RSS-DEV] RSS and Libraries
From: mb@p…
Date: Tue Dec 17, 2002 9:18 pm