The short-form week of 21–27 Oct 2013
28 Oct 2013
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:57am
If I bought a bottle of wine, could I carry it as hand luggage on a flight?—@rem
Monday at 08:28am
TSA Pre is like airport security in a free country.—@gruber
Monday at 08:52am
I think therefore I angst—@psd
Monday at 12:38pm
Monday at 12:58pm
On the road again. IAH then AMS. #xmlamsterdam
—@ndw
Monday at 02:11pm
It doesn't help that GOP threatened everyone who wanted to help https://www.healthcare.gov/ succeed with treason...—@kendall
Monday at 02:45pm
Enormous hulk of a man, heavily tattooed, hot pink carry-on. Easy to spot I guess.—@ndw
Tuesday at 01:40am
Arrived AMS. SIM acquired. Onwards!—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:20am
Tuesday at 02:27am
«Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll make a web site.” Now they have http://twoproblems.com/ » from @xunker
—@sideshowbarker
Tuesday at 10:33am
“Fish packaging and hotel management recruitment in Canada” That’s an interesting combination. Machine generated spam?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:40am
OMG. They put my picture on the banner. #xmlamsterdam
—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:08am
Keynote by Brian Walsh at @XMLAmsterdam was insightfull. Bit hostile to webdevs though. Would love to discuss html with him—@devatwork
@XMLAmsterdam @ndw Yup, it was very intresting to hear a different opinion. Semantic value vs. rendering support. #xml #html5
—@devatwork
@ndw @XMLAmsterdam No worry, we were not really offended. I think it is a great discussion #XML vs #HTML5
—@devatwork
Wednesday at 03:10am
Wednesday at 03:13am
O.O: <XML /> … RT @Markup_Fanatic: "15 years of XML" - @ndw at #XMLAmsterdam
http://twitpic.com/difc3s
—@XMLArbyter
Wednesday at 03:30am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:45am
I wonder if doing XML Calabash V2 in #Scala will be good or bad for third party investigation/hacking/extension.—@ndw
@ndw Hard to say! Stories: 1. The Python Paradox (http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.htmls) 2. Discourse back to JS from CoffeeScript (http://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-use-javascript-or-coffeescript/3153t)—@ebruchez
Wednesday at 05:05am
Post-presentation adrenaline crash. Jet lag struggling to get the upper hand. Must resist.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:38am
I seem destined to buy a new MacBook Pro. I suppose there’s no reason to wait any longer, is there?—@ndw
@ebruchez @ndw I was also 2 days ago, went to an A. Store, found out they don't do anti-gloss anymore. I need to see what's on the screen!—@fgeorges
@ebruchez @ndw Really need to find alternative. Can't buy from a company that decides for me I don't like 17" and I want a mirror as screen.—@fgeorges
@ndw Same here. I *hate* Apple closed philosophy, but their hardware rocks. I wait until January to see what @sony or @lenovo propose.—@ColinMaudry
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:09am
“A keynote in six pictures.” Alas, my Google+ autoformatter did something weird with the pictures :-/ http://norman.walsh.name/2013/gplus/z13mghoibmuzz53cu23jsze54mbrj10pp04 #XMLAmsterdam
—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 11:00am
Geez. First time I don’t have to MC #DemoJam and I’ve been persuaded to demo. #peerpressure #XMLAmsterdam
—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:13pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:23pm
3rd demo at XML Amsterdam demo jam is XForms too—@stevenpemberton
@stevenpemberton \o/ Great! Hope they convince @ndw to put XForms a few more pixels to the success side in his slides ;-)—@windauer
Thursday at 03:14am
Interesting news from Egypt: they opened a tomb and found a body mummified in chocolate & nuts. It's believed to be Pharaoh Rocher.—@brucel
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:27am
Please don't see Ender's Game http://tommorris.org/posts/8612
—@tommorris
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:56am
Hadn't got a chance to vote at @MarkLogic DemoJam y'day, because of my train, but the Monty Pythons vid w/ @ndw was hilarious! #xmlamsterdam
—@fgeorges
Friday at 02:45am
Buh bye AMS. Hope to be back next year! #XMLAmsterdam
—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:55am
Friday at 07:09am
Winner of @MarkLogic DemoJam: @Xokomola with his Monty Python video of XML Rockstar @ndw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ny24elYmLo #XMLAmsterdam
—@Markup_Fanatic
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:35pm
Eight hours on a plane. Piperack, a restful #XMLCalabash server mostly works. Restlets for @alexmilowski
—@ndw
@ndw sounds cool! will it be on github ? Funny we also use Restlet in our “DAISY Pipeline” stuff ;)—@rdeltour
@ndw Restlets? Please explain for us slow people.—@alexmilowski
@ndw Yes, I have. I already have an integration with Calabash. You're welcome to the code. It has a bunch of nice endpoint binding bits.—@alexmilowski
@alexmilowski I just wrote the restful service parts for Piperack with restlets.—@ndw
@ndw Piperack?—@alexmilowski
@alexmilowski Wrote it on the plane back from AMS. Lightweight web server that runs XProc pipelines. Suggested by someone at #XMLAmsterdam
—@ndw
@grtjn I guess it's more dedicated. Using Servlex, it'd have taken way less than 8h :-) http://servlex.net/ @ndw @alexmilowski Any link?—@fgeorges
@ndw Thanks, fixed now. BTW, the doc on http://servlex.net is more up-to-date, when available (in Install and Config).—@fgeorges
@fgeorges @grtjn @ndw Right now it is mixed up with the Atomojo APP server but is completely separable. http://code.google.com/p/atomojo/
—@alexmilowski
@ndw Hah! I have that too in Restlet. That's what all my #MarkLogic / http://www.mesonet.info/ / http://milowski.com code runs on. ;)—@alexmilowski
@ndw Piperack is a better name than what I have. Code might need to be merged.—@alexmilowski
@alexmilowski I'll commit it this week so you can critique it. I'm quite pleased with how it came out.—@ndw
Friday at 02:50pm
If Germany and France are really outraged about NSA spying, they should offer Edward Snowden asylum for revealing it. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/25/europe-erupts-nsa-spying-chief-government
—@trevortimm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:07pm
Run pipeline: 9 seconds. Run it in Piperack: 0.2 seconds. JVM startup tax. #XMLCalabash
—@ndw
Friday at 04:15pm
I’m only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.—@MadHattaSays
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:26pm
@ndw Thinking about supporting XML Catalogs. Is using Apache impl reasonable? I see you as author. http://www.docjar.org/docs/api/org/apache/xml/resolver/Catalog.html
—@ebruchez
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:51pm
Saturday at 05:53pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 10:40pm
Like anyone needed another reason to avoid broccoli: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/27/health/broccoli-salad-recall/
—@mdubinko