DeWitt Clinton

One of my saved searches for “OpenSearch” turned up this job posting on Craigslist for a server-side software architect at Groxis. OpenSearch is listed along with REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, RDF, and RSS as something a candidate will have a solid knowledge of.
It sounds like a kick-ass job at an up-and-comer in the search space. [...]

I am playing with ideas for an OpenSearch icon. Something that can be used to visually represent OpenSearch in the same spirit of the ubiquitous oranage “feed” icons that the Mozilla Foundation created and the community has embraced.
I’d like an icon that signifies both “search” and “syndication.”
Search seems to be typically represented [...]

Normally I don’t post about my alma mater, but this is something that even I can be proud/amazed by.
Williams ranked was ranked #1 in both athletics and academics for the third straight year.
No school had ever topped both the US News & World Report college rankings (for academics) and won the Director’s Cup (for athletics) [...]

My bet is that someone is going to make a very smart hire in the very near future. Joe Gregorio is looking for a new gig.
For those that don’t know Joe, he is the co-author of the Atom Publishing Protocol, guru of all things REST (and SOAP), über-experienced programmer, fantastic writer, and just [...]

Blogging via the browser is a potentially powerful model. This post, for example, was entirely written and published using Flock, the content-oriented browser based on the Mozilla codebase.
Of course, the real value isn’t in using the browser as a stand-alone blog-post editor. If you’re online you may as well use your native blog [...]

I have been revisiting the tools I use in my preferred Java web application development stack. Some of these are being used by me for the first time (Velocity, Eclipse Web Tools Project) or replace older tools that served similar roles (Subversion, Maven, Spring Framework). Others are newer versions that introduce invaluable feature [...]

As has been observed before, microformats work particularly well in the context of syndicated search.
With that in mind, here is something that I have been working on:

A draft document on OpenSearch and microformats.

But first, some background:
Microformats exhibit a profound and subtle characteristic in that they can be used to present structured and semi-structured [...]