Moving on. Interesting discussion brewing over continuations: to do or not to do? You won’t find it on the tech memetrackers, that are following the person of the year awards. Fortunately, Tim Bray collected links to different points of view. If I get it correctly, Gilad’s premise is that we need to re-invent Windows inside a browser, and for that we don’t need continuations. Tim thinks the restrictions placed by HTTP are a Good Thing. I see your restrictions and I raise you multiple open tabs, session restore after crash, and e-mailing links around. Why mess with something that works?
S-Expressions. (Reinier Zwitserloot comments here (via Wunschdenken) in relation to this): “In theory, practice is just like the theory, but in practice, practice is nothing like the theory. Or so the theory goes.â€
HTTP into IIP. For some reason I can’t manage to setup my printer using the all powerful, and usually user-friendly, KDE Control Center. So I did a bit of digging, and while I didn’t find an answer to my troubles, I learned that Linux uses CUPS. Ok, I knew that already, but what I didn’t know is that CUPS is an IPP server, and IPP is HTTP over port 631. So I opened http://localhost:631, and right there was a Web-based console for configuring the printers and managing jobs. Worked like a charm. Good to know, in case I ever need to script or monitor it.
The hard part of simplicity. It’s a lot of work to get it right, and if you do get it right, you get little to show for all the hard word. Dare Obasanjo has more.
A glitch in the matrix. Google’s SOAP Search API bites the dust. Steves says poetically: “Slowly, all over the world, the lights on the SOAP endpoints are going out”. (Via Bill de hÓra)