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…and so the pranks begin…

I was hoping that April Fools’ jokes on the Web would be passe this year. First I spotted this year. Of course, no hoax can ever top Google’s Pigeon Rank.

phpBB on Project Zero

Somehow this flew under my radar. Sad, considering I am on the project. Project Zero is starting to become self-hosted (to the extent it makes sense, of course) with its own support forum running phpBB on the Project Zero runtime itself.
So I went and dug deeper…
Back in January, Rob Nicholson and Iain Lewis posted that [...]

Idempotent

UPDATE: It seems Network Solutions has turned off their search “feature” where they register the domain you just searched.
Here is a fun little experiment…

Do a search for a random domain on GoDaddy.com. I chose networksolutionsactuallyregisterseverydomainsearched.com. If the domain has been taken, think of another one.
Then go to Network Solutions and do the search on the [...]

concocting slang

tuba
The greatest instrument known to man

And I’m sure Tuba News would agree.
Which reminds me. If you haven’t checked out the Google Chart API, you must. That project is the tuba. With the recent ChartMaker available, it reminds me where SaaS is going.
Technorati Tags: tuba

Entities are not resources

I’ve been thinking about data access a lot lately from two fronts:

Distributed–in particular HTTP, siding primarily with standardizing on the Atom Publishing Protocol as the default implementation of REST
In-process–in particular Java

As a result of my pondering, I believe there are two larger classifications of applications in the real world:

Entity-oriented applications define a clear set [...]