DeWitt Clinton

Still alive, just hard at work. The Flock browser alpha was released last night. Flock is based on the Mozilla codebase and runs on all the popular operating systems (Linux, Mac OSX, Windows). I tried out the OSX build and I absolutely love what they are trying to do. Flock is integrating some of my [...]

You may have started seeing links in the form: feed://example.com/content.rss These are called “feed” URIs, and they are probably a bad idea. Same goes for this: rss://example.com/content.rss And: pcast://example.com/podcast.xml The first part of each URI, (“feed,” “pcast,” etc.), is called a scheme. Schemes are formally defined in the Universal Resource Identifier: Generic Syntax, and in [...]

I just saw a list of the fifty US states, ranked in order of the quality of their public school systems. I thought I’d color the list in for you. (View the full article if this doesn’t show up in color in your blog reader.) States with the smartest schools at the top: Massachusetts Connecticut [...]

Part of this weekend was spent working on an article on how to use open source technology to build enterprise applications. The article focused on cost-effective way of putting the “enterprise” in your project — i.e., planning for and implementing the redundancy, scalability, monitoring, etc., that differentiates small projects from projects that are ready for [...]

Introduction: Email, for better or for worse, is the most important form of communication today. While email will someday be supplanted (or rather subsumed) by more sophisticated message routing technologies, the average Internet user still spends a tremendous amount of time reading and writing email. As such, our choice of email client has a tremendous [...]