REST Web

'Uche Ogbuji creates a PURL on purl.org for his own person, clearly a non-information resource. The resulting PURL follows the W3C TAG "httpRange-14" convention of using HTTP the 303 code. Uche demonstrates this behavior using cURL.' - Uche Ogbuji

"[We installed] a new version of the PURL server early on July 27, 2009...The software is open source and was written for us by Zepheira." - Uche Ogbuji

This needed to be said, but that doesn't necessarily mean I agree with all of it. HTML5 is a step over pure tag soup because even though it doesn't have the syntactical clarity of XML by default, it does have a consistent serialization to an internal model, which e.g. can be used as XHTML5. I think the W3C did too much to turn XHTML into an ivory tower exercise, and this was all inevitable. - Uche Ogbuji from Bookmarklet

Says: "The obvious answer is to establish agreed standards for moving data between clouds. An industry effort to this effect kicked off in March." But no link and no mention of which industry effort they mean. Sounds too recent to be http://www.dataportability.org/ - Uche Ogbuji from Bookmarklet

I'm having some folks com on board to help with the FLOSS development of Akara, and I thought it would be useful, to get them oriented, to discuss the motivations behind the project. - Uche Ogbuji from Bookmarklet

"...is designed from the ground up with the above in mind--to treat data as much as possible in the data domain, rather than in the code domain. In practice, you still need good code interfaces, but the key balance to strike is in the nature of the resulting code. I want code that uses Amara 2.x to be compact, so there's less to maintain, but I also want it to be structured such that it... more... - Uche Ogbuji