Despite 8 people claiming they'd show up, only 3 actually did. It was still fun, but still something of a disappointment. Especially after I reserved a table for 6-12 people on Wednesday.
I wish meetup.com had a way of leaving feedback for other people who claimed they would show up.
I'm trying to convince various groups I work with to start using Wiki's to collaborate. They seem like a collaboration method that has an impressive degree of flexibility and open-endedness. It makes them kind of fun to use and quick to create.
I've put up a Wiki for my homepage, and am hoping I get random people writing in it.
I've been discovering how bad XML is for designing protocols. For some non-technical reasons, I decided to design my next protocol in XML, and taught myself a lot about it.
Aside from the bloatedness of a tag system, the main thing about XML that makes it totally unsuitable for protocol design is its lack of a decent way to do enveloping or encapsulation.
Most protocols will carry data that has nothing to do with the protocol. They will be used in some capacity as a transport. XML makes it very hard to design protocols that can do this easily.
Anyway, this is less well written than I hoped, but I think my point is clear.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
