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Consistent content rate is one key to a successful (read by more than your mother) blog. I have trouble sometimes remembering all sorts of things. Sometimes that I haven’t blogged in over a week. Three young kids can provide a neuron sink that can sometimes spell disaster for memory and focus. In my busy life I come across all sorts of things I’d like to retain for future retrieval. But my wetware is full!

Lately I’ve been wondering if I should consider externalizing that memory - getting it out of my wetware and on to physical storage… Read more »

I spent last night looking into Restlet; the brainchild of Jérôme Louvel. My first impression is that the code is solid and is a faithful implementation of Rest concepts on the Java platform. I’ve started integrating it into a project I’m working on and will report back as I learn more. So far, my biggest stumbling block isn’t the software, but instead learning how to architect software using only rest.

It appears that a major part of rest is transporting representations between the client and the server. For example, to update an attribute of a resource, the client PUTs the resource onto the server using the appropriate URL. The simplicity is compelling. But, I’m very concerned about pushing complexity onto the client as a consequence of this simplicity. Stay tuned.

OpenLaszlo has evolved into a write-once, run many platform. You write in a proprietary markup language “LZX” which is then compiled into target runtimes. Until recently, these were Flash 7/8 and DHTML (coming fast). Orbit is an partnership announcement between OpenLaszlo and Sun to introduce J2ME as a third runtime.

I’ve been following OpenLaszlo since they announced they were open source under the CPL. Read more »