January 2009
5 posts
Information Theologist
information: what is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things
theology: religious beliefs and theory when systematically developed
I recently decided to give myself the title “information theologist”. It was an idea that popped to mind and rang true, so I kept it.
That notion of ringing, resonance, is at the core of information theology....
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Resources Before Actions
When doing open systems design why should we think about resources before actions?
It’s just polite.
When you design a system that provides information to other people, you can’t really know with true confidence what those other people might want to do with it. What you can know is what you have: What you are are resources.
And while you can’t predict the details of what...
Scaling Restfully
In a recent work-related email conversation it was suggested that it might be useful to say RESTful instead of REST when discussing API used over HTTP because REST describes a fairly specific thing.
I’m one of those people who is fairly happy to say REST instead of RESTful or web-friendly, despite agreeing with Paul (Downey) that a) being truly REST is pretty much impossible in HTTP if you...
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New BeautifulSoup Recipe
TiddlyWeb uses BeautifulSoup to parse TiddlyWiki files in various ways: importing wikis into the system, processing some HTML elements for injecting into a TiddlyWiki. It also searches around in remote HTML pages for OpenID info.
For each of these uses the chance of invalid HTML is quite high. When parsing TiddlyWiki it is 100%: amongst other things TiddlyWiki has invalid CDATA within script...
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– http://harpers.org/archive/2009/01/0082319 (via creature57)