Scott Hanselman

Don Box is up (early, schedule change) and he's giving a talk that is obstensibly the first chapter to a book he just started. Some notes for myself follow. Don throws a lot of possibly deep concepts out at breakneck speed.  I'll need a few minutes to absorb.

Brian Cox was a visionary. Objects have become the moral equivalent of a Software IC.  There is an IC Plant on your desktop.

[re: WS-*.* specs] The cost of cross-company collaboration is WAY higher than I ever expected...

If it takes too much thought to explain/understand an abstraction, it's too hard...

XML Schema is a relative interpretation of truth.  It's not a Type System (whoa...) To expect those XML Schema constructs to find their way into your programming model, is wrong.  The goal for Schema instead is to validate what is allowed input and outputs to a service.

Object-Orientation: Managted develop and test cycle, abstraction-driven IDEs, Platform Constrained, Compiler technology focused.  Security == private?

Service-Orientation: Unknown integration partner.  All I can do is write constraints on variation.  Primitive tooling, Unknown platform, WS-Technology in controlled descent.  Intense security requirements.

Conclusion

If the amount of abstraction you have to sell me is nil, that's a really good place to be...

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It has begun, another iteration of XMLDevCon West.  This is my second DevCon, and I have high-signal-to-noise-ratio-hopes.  

Right now Dave Winer is doing his talk, which is the first of the day.  His slide (that's singular) says "Dave Winer: Harvard Law School" rather than Userland.  It's been mostly an Andy Rooney-style talk so far.

Here's a brief synopsis of Dave's Talk...

"...users....users....users don't care about protocols, they just want things to work...I've been developing software for 30+ years...here's how XML-RPC started....here's what I was doing in the Valley in the 80s...You can spot Microsofties even before they go to work for Microsoft....Scoble would talk about Lornhorn in social situations...why should we care about Microsoft's internal logic? <DonBox breaks in>Internal competition can be healthy...</DonBox breaks in> It's artificial, it's an economy...competition within groups at Microsoft isn't a substitude for competition within an economy.  I don't think the Gods (BillG, SteveB, JimA) understand technology and I hate that they control the web...Microsoft owns Word and the Browser, one is free, one is not, Microsoft will never let the Browser compete with Word."

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Venkat writes that he has a text file (CSV) containing over 50,000 URLs. “I want to run a program that will take this file as input and output a text file which contains only the valid URLs. Basically I need a URL/Link Validator that can perform this job.  I tried to put together a custom C# program to do this, but it takes several minutes just to do a hundred URL. Is there any program/code you are aware that can do this?”

I recommended a Range Retrieval Request, such as those used by GETRIGHT.  GetRight uses a Range Retrieval Request, like this.  You can do this in .NET by just adding the name/values for Range to the Headers collection.  NOTE: The Server CAN (and many will) ignore this request.   If you get partial content, you won’t get an OK 200, you’ll get a 206 and the Content-Length will have the amount of data included. 

However, another fellow, more clever than myself wrote me to say that a HEAD (rather than a GET) should provide enough information - namely the headers - to determine page existance, without the trouble of the HTTP Body Content.  Good stuff!

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.35.2
http://www.vbip.com/winsock/winsock_http_08_01.asp

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Had a nice lunch at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference with Gunther Birznieks.  He's got offices in Singapore and we've got offices in Malaysia (I'll be there in August) and his company has worked with our company.  He was speaking at the conference but we really got to talking and somehow ended up on BBSs, and he mentioned that he wrote CBASE 64 a legendary and oft copied BBS for the, you guessed it, Commodore 64.  I have 3 C64s, 2 1541 drives and a 1501 monitor in my garage...perhaps it's time to fire it up and do some 2400bps war dialing? ;) 

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