Dave Winer sees the launch ("preview") of Amazon Web Services SDK for JavaScript as important for a grid of Single Page Application-s that can now talk to Web Service API-s without requiring centralized scaling. (more)

Kids are apparently dropping out of WebLog writing in favor of FaceBook and Twitter. (more)

Project Management term (more)

Rhode Island School Of Design (more)

Project Management view of task dependencies. (more)

I do all my book reading as EBook-s on my old Archos70 Tablet. (more)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in Web applications. XSS enables attackers to inject client-side script into Web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same origin policy. Cross-site scripting carried out on websites accounted for roughly 84% of all security vulnerabilities documented by Symantec as of 2007.[1] Their effect may range from a petty nuisance to a significant security risk, depending on the sensitivity of the data handled by the vulnerable site and the nature of any security mitigation implemented by the site's owner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting (more)

Carl Jung Model - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes (more)

A massive Bail-Out of the finance industry is being proposed. (Credit Crisis 2008) (more)

Cory Doctorow is Self Publishing his next book (Short Story collection) With A Little Help, with a variety of revenue streams, to test the "TrueBeliever" attitude that he's been a schmuck for using a "real" publisher. Mark Shuttleworth already snagged the $10k commissioned-story option (True Fan). Po D via Lulu. There's plenty more details, of course - how I'm going to use Twitter, what I'm going to do to get this into bookstores, the marketing and publicity plan. But I'm out of space for this month - and many of those details will fill a column on their own. One thing I need to mention, though: I'm seriously considering writing a book about the experiment, no matter how it turns out, selling it to a traditional publisher and adding the advance to the balance sheet. (Business Models For Information, Experiment, Virtual Company) (more)

Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that allows JavaScript on a web page to make XmlHttpRequest-s to another domain, not the domain the JavaScript originated from.[1] Such "CrossDomain" requests would otherwise be forbidden by web browsers, per the same origin security policy. CORS defines a way in which the browser and the server can interact to determine whether or not to allow the cross-origin request.[2] It is more powerful than only allowing same-origin requests, but it is more secure than simply allowing all such cross-origin requests... CORS can be used as a modern alternative to the JSONP pattern. While JSONP supports only the GET request method, CORS also supports other types of HTTP requests. Using CORS enables a web programmer to use regular X M L Http Request, which supports better error handling than JSONP. On the other hand, JSONP works on legacy browsers which predate CORS support. CORS is supported by most modern web browsers. Also, whilst JSONP can cause cross-site scripting (XSS) issues where the external site is compromised, CORS allows websites to manually parse responses to ensure security. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing

Strong holder of some Belief

In Functional Programming, a monad is a structure that represents computations defined as sequences of steps. A type with a monad structure defines what it means to chain operations, or nest functions of that type together. This allows the programmer to build PipeLine-s that process data in steps, in which each action is decorated with additional processing rules provided by the monad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(functional_programming) (more)

PostModern Computer Programming (more)

Thin Client for a WebApp (more)

Clojure (pronounced like "closure"[3]) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language created by Rich Hickey. Clojure is a functional general-purpose language, and runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Common Language Runtime, and JavaScript engines. Like other Lisps, Clojure treats code as data and has a sophisticated macro system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure (more)

vs Big Ball Of Mud (more)

Edited version of Clay Shirky's E T Con talk from April. Human/group psychology and its implications for the design of Social Software (particularly the Virtual Community kind, which he says needs explicit Governance). We had every bit of technology we needed to do WebLog-s the day NCSA Mosaic launched the first forms-capable browser. Every single piece of it was right there. Instead, we got GeoCities. Why did we get Geocities and not weblogs? We didn't know what we were doing. (more)

see PostModernism (more)

Roger Schank on designing new High School Curriculum (Basic School Skills). (more)