The short-form week of 25 Nov–1 Dec 2013
02 Dec 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 Wednesday at 10:38am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:09pm
One afternoon trying to build xulrunner on 64 bit linux in order to run Talend starts
to make the Mac look inviting despite the suck.—@ndw
@Talend I’m experiencing this issue http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17801715/talend-open-studio-exiting and have found no solution that works with Talend DI 5.4.0—@ndw
@ndw Hi Norman! Maybe you could check this post? It seems like other users have had the
same message as you have http://www.talendforge.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=22630—@Talend
Monday at 12:24pm
Like XML technologies? Got mad engineering skillz? Looking for a job in the bay area?
Contact me!—@ndw
Monday at 12:47pm
Monday at 03:55pm
It's always hard to figure out which of the Good's enemies are the most fearsome:
Best, Worst, or Barely Adequate.—@d6
Monday at 04:08pm
The United States: where guns are legal but Camembert isn’t. http://tommorris.org/posts/8664—@tommorris
Tuesday at 02:05pm
My only real complaint with the political culture of the present is the politics.
And the culture. And the present.—@NeinQuarterly
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:08pm
Tuesday at 04:47pm
I still use ‘grey’ instead of ‘gray’ because the savages can’t have *everything*.—@indefensible
Tuesday at 05:00pm
Install any Ubuntu flavored linux, then cd /bin; sudo rm sh; sudo ln -s bash sh; Fscking
dash.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:12pm
That thing where you type “sudo rm -rf /MarkLogic” and then just before you hit enter
you realize you meant “/var/opt/MarkLogic”. *whew*—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:54pm
Google survey asks me for my postal code and then 20 questions later asks me what
state I live in. Redundancy checking or stupidity?—@ndw
@ndw There are very small number of postal codes that cross state lines.—@paulrbrown
Wednesday at 08:01pm
Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter are the Walmarts of the Web; their economy of
scale produce convenience, centralization and monoculture.—@dret
Wednesday at 08:49pm
I made the traditional thanksgiving Doctor Who cookies! That's totally a thing right?
http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?short=hUj1Ri—@amymakesthings
Wednesday at 09:05pm
Safe travels and Happy Thanksgiving and/or Hanukkah as appropriate to all.—@n1vux
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:49pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 11:10am
Implementing content negotiation right is far less work than creating a whole API.
But hey, writing APIs is more fun… http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2013/11/29/the-lie-of-the-api/#comment-1144201122—@RubenVerborgh
.@RubenVerborgh Great post! Food for thought, you know @nwalsh's http://norman.walsh.name/2003/07/02/conneg & @bitworking's http://bitworking.org/news/WebServicesAndContentNegotiation from 2003?—@tomayac
@tomayac @bitworking @nwalsh @RubenVerborgh funny, I got bitten by IE with conneg recently. I still believe in conneg though
:)—@pchampin
@pchampin @bitworking @ndw @RubenVerborgh [s/nwalsh/ndw/] #Conneg—Sounds super nice in theory, but incredibly hard to get right in practice.—@tomayac
@tomayac @RubenVerborgh @nwalsh Just realized in https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/406517787696562177a, I mentioned the wrong Mr. Walsh. Meant @ndw instead. Sorry Nate.—@tomayac
@tomayac we may be generating some great topic mat'l for @wsREST here! /cc: @RubenVerborgh @nwalsh @ndw—@mamund
@mamund @wsREST @RubenVerborgh @ndw While I agree, I thought the topic was buried when "REST" & thing.json / thing.xml
won the Webs. Change!—@tomayac
@tomayac "winning" is relative. conneg, address permanence, shared interaces, desc. services,
etc. all imp. IMO @wsREST @RubenVerborgh @ndw—@mamund
@mamund @wsREST @RubenVerborgh @ndw Well, "winning" quantity-wise. #REST, you (and I mean they) keep using that word… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk&feature=youtu.be—@tomayac
@tomayac another illustration of the power and problems with focusing on names. @wsREST @RubenVerborgh @ndw—@mamund
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 06:30am
Looking for new Ubuntu laptop (again), dell xps is tempting but seems to have a lot
of issues.—@ldodds