James Tauber's Blog 2005/04/23
Finally Made IMDb
Fulfilling a 10-year-old dream, I'm now listed on IMDb although my producer credit is still missing for some reason.
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HTTP Abuse and Leonardo
Jon Udell started it with his article End HTTP Abuse and Leigh Dodds and Ryan Tomayko continue.
Jon Udell is focused on misuse of GET versus POST, arguing that if client-side toolkits made it easier to POST, then GET wouldn't be misused by developers on the server-side. Jon seems to give server-side developers the benefit of the doubt more than I would. I'm with Leigh that it's the server-side frameworks that need to improve.
Both Leigh and Ryan go further with the kinds of things a server-side framework needs to do well including:
- URI design
- use of HTTP methods
- status codes
- content negotiation
- HTTP authentication
- media-types
Maybe getting these right in a Python web framework is what will help push Python as a language for Web applications.
I'm trying hard to do the Right Thing in Leonardo (which is actually shaping up to be another Python web framework for better or worse). I've done a bad job in some areas (which I hope to fix) but I think I've done an okay job with things like status codes and URI design.
One thing I hate having to do is overcome the lack of HTML forms support for PUT and DELETE by having two URIs /put and /delete that you POST to when you want to PUT the contents of a textarea as a resource or want to DELETE a resource.
I also need to work out how best to do authentication, rather than using cookies like I do (and almost everyone else does).
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Congrats to Jill Effron
Jill Effron, who James Marcus and I hung out with at the Palm Beach festival won the Audience Award for Best Short Film for her film A Day in the Life of a Bathroom Key. Way to go Jill! Must have been my 5 out of 5 vote that pushed it over the edge :-)
It was a great film. Very funny and executed very well.
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M-Audio 88-Note MIDI Controller
One of the biggest problems with being away from home for months at a time is not being able to play music. I don't mean listen. I mean compose, improvise and perform.
So tonight I ordered an M-Audio 88-Note MIDI Controller from Amazon (Sam Ash, actually) which I can keep here in the US.
The cost? $250. One-tenth the cost of the Roland A-90EX 88-Note MIDI Controller in my studio at home.
I'm not expecting the touch to be anything like the Roland or my Korg Triton LE 88. But when the alternative is not being able to play anything for months at a time, I'm willing to cope :-)
I don't know why I didn't do this two months ago.
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