Day: January 16, 2004

Kenneth Hunt brings good news: mobile AMD-64’s are coming.  Beautiful.

I would not have noticed this except for seeing several referrals from google: I am currently the highest ranked result for croydon on google.  I know this won’t last, I know that it is a mistake.  I’m just enjoying it while I can.

Ted Leung posts what it took him to build the current release of Subversion (0.36.0) from scratch.  I foolishly tried to install Subversion on a fresh box at 3 in the morning a few weeks ago, and don’t quite remember where I gave up.  It was a painful process though.  Ted offers the steps that he took to get a working installation going.  I’ll have to try that.

Two new features for textamerica today: tips and tricks and carrier reviews.

moco.news points to an internetnews.com story about the Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 reccommendation by the W3C.  Here’s a bit from the W3C news page:

The World Wide Web Consortium today released Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. CC/PP 1.0 is a system for expressing device capabilities and user preferences using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). CC/PP guides the adaptation of content, making it easier to deliver Web content to devices. Read the press release and testimonials, and visit the Device Independence home page.

That totally rocks!  Why haven’t I heard about this before?

It’s going to take me some time to parse and digest this information, but it strikes me as A Good Thing in a big way.  Extra major bonus points for RDF usage.  It looks like CC/PP has some industry backing, which is a good sign.  We’ll have to see where this thing goes.

Via moco.news (which Russ mentioned on #mobitopia the other day), internetnews.com notes

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today recommended a standard to help handheld computers and smartphones communicate with Web servers about displaying content.

The schema, the Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (CC/PP 1.0), is a system for expressing device features and user preferences using the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a spec that makes Web applications work with Web servers.

Dude!  That totally rocks!  Why haven’t I heard about this before?

Full details can be found at Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0, the full reccommendation released today.  The full press release is also available.

It’s going to take some time for me to digest all of this, but it strikes me as A Good Thing.  Maybe I can ask edd, danbri, or the other RDF-enabled #foaf citizens what they think about it at ETech.