“I consider the controversy over the comic strip’s status within the realm of the visual arts a largely meaningless one. Since I define art as the activity of human beings engaged in shaping their thoughts and feelings I make no distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. BLONDIE and SUPERMAN are in this sense no less deserving of our scrutiny than the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and Chartres Cathedral.”

“In April of 2000 while on a business trip I received a near-frantic email from someone with an unusual request. It seems that she represented a fellow with a company in Seattle (no, NOT Microsoft). Turns out that last September this guy was hired, and in his contract of employment it stipulated that he wanted a desk made out of LEGO. The hiring company evidently really wanted to hire this guy because their Human Resources department didn’t scoff at the idea.”

“This service uses a generic webdata transformation service (an XSLT server) to convert from a dialect of XHTML to the proposed RSS 1.0 channel format. Goal: author in XHTML, syndicate in RSS. …Specifically, we provide a Web form that you can use to turn certain kinds of HTML document into the proposed RSS 1.0 channel / syndication format. This approach is designed to free content authors from the technical detail of evolving formats such as RSS, WAP/WML, RDF etc. Instead of learning dozens of new acronyms, content creators can produce XHTML documents, and have software tools do the rest.”

“In April of 2000 while on a business trip I received a near-frantic email from someone with an unusual request. It seems that she represented a fellow with a company in Seattle (no, NOT Microsoft). Turns out that last September this guy was hired, and in his contract of employment it stipulated that he wanted a desk made out of LEGO. The hiring company evidently really wanted to hire this guy because their Human Resources department didn’t scoff at the idea.”

“It should come as no great surprise, but in the presence of the Web, the organization of your development team is incrementally more complex. The simple reason for this is that, relative to traditional systems development, crafting and then deploying a successful Web-centric system involves a new set of stakeholders. Outside of the Web, a healthy team will be comprised not only of programmers, but will also include an architect (to drive the system’s strategic design decisions), analysts (who translate the desires of end users into meaningful requirements), quality assurance personnel (who incrementally test the system under development against those requirements), and possibly other specialists, such as user interface designers and database developers.” Part of a valuable-looking series of articles from IBM called The expert perspective.

“This service uses a generic webdata transformation service (an XSLT server) to convert from a dialect of XHTML to the proposed RSS 1.0 channel format. Goal: author in XHTML, syndicate in RSS. …Specifically, we provide a Web form that you can use to turn certain kinds of HTML document into the proposed RSS 1.0 channel / syndication format. This approach is designed to free content authors from the technical detail of evolving formats such as RSS, WAP/WML, RDF etc. Instead of learning dozens of new acronyms, content creators can produce XHTML documents, and have software tools do the rest.”