Thursday, September 06 2001

Cafe con Leche : "Bottom line: any doubt that the IE team at Microsoft actually cares about standards has been erased.

More than three years since XML 1.0 was released and almost two years after XSLT 1.0 was released, IE still does not correctly implement these specifications. Even though the XML parser group at Microsoft provided the IE group with a relatively standards conformant XML parser/XSLT processor, the IE programmers deliberately chose to cripple it rather than support standard XML!"

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Piers Harding : Jabber::JAX::Component

"is yet another perl implementation for writing Jabber components. How it differs is that it is a wrapper for the high performance JECL libraries for writing components in C++. With this in mind - the idea is to be able to write Jabber Components in perl that are very quick. My first attempt at bench marking this - writting the good ol' echo component - got through put of 1000 Messages in about 12 seconds."

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Me : rss2blogger 1.0

or RadioUserland in 220 lines (including newlines and comments) of Perl. But seriously, from the docs : "This is a simple program that fetches a list of rss feeds and posts them to a Blogger account. I wrote it as a debugging tool for Blogger.pm and figured it might be of interest to someone else."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is arbiter

| source : web1913 | Arbiter \Ar"bi*ter\, v. t. To act as arbiter between. [Obs.] | source : web1913 | Arbiter \Ar"bi*ter\, n. [L. arbiter; ar- (for ad) + the root of betere to go; hence properly, one who comes up to look on.] 1. A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them. Note: In modern usage, arbitrator is the technical word. 2. Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited. For Jove is arbiter of both to man. --Cowper. Syn: Arbitrator; umpire; director; referee; controller; ruler; governor. | source : wn | arbiter n 1: someone with the power to settle matters at will; "she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion" [syn: {supreme authority}] 2: someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue [syn: {arbitrator}]

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