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Think like the web or even like Jon Udell
Back in 2000, the patterns, principles, and best practices for building web information systems were mostly anecdotal and folkloric. Roy Fielding’s dissertation on the web’s deep architecture provided a formal definition that we’ve been digesting ever since. In his introduction he wrote that the web is “an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia system” that aims to “interconnect …
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iTunes gifting scam
Surfers who link their debit or credit card to iTunes have reason to be cautious after a Reg reader found his bank account plunged into the red overnight following £1,000 in fraudulent iTunes gift purchases. Reg reader Peter woke up one morning last week to discover an email informing him of a “£10 Monthly Gift …
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PS3 Not Reading Discs?
via youtube.com Almost a terrible start to the new year. My beloved PS3 that I use for Blu-ray much more than I use for games, stopped reading discs on me. I was playing a game of Street Fighter IV when it quit on me and hung the system forcing a reboot. After that it wouldn’t …
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IP Freely
via cbc.ca With all the talk in the tech world about running out of existing IP space, we sometimes forget that the man in the street might not fully grasp what the problem is or why anything is being done about it, above and beyond the telephone exchange solution of prefixing yet another leading number …