--- title: links for 2008-09-05 date: 2008-09-06T01:31:20Z modified: 2008-09-06T01:31:20Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/09/05/links-for-2008-09-05/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 2277 categories: - Links timestamp: 2008-09-06T01:31:20Z tags: - Links --- - [The Importance of Dissent | Community, Incorporated | ZDNet.com](http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/?p=102) i concur (tags: [dissent](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dissent) [discussion](http://delicious.com/sogrady/discussion) [rational](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rational) [montywidenius](http://delicious.com/sogrady/montywidenius) [mysql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mysql) [joebrockmeier](http://delicious.com/sogrady/joebrockmeier)) - [John Sequeira's Weblog](http://www.jsequeira.com/blog/2008/09/05.html#a915) "I can't get past the fact that there's no SQL. I know why there's no SQL, (Brewer's Conjecture etc) and I have some experience with it. I've been doing years of mostly-simple mashup stuff with quickbase, which is a similar PaaS-backing non-relational data store. It has it's place, but it's hard to imagine really cranking out something complicated with it. When I do code reviews for clients, the biggest improvements come from transforming procedural cursor logic back into set-oriented db-logic, and AppEngine wants you to go the opposite direction. Sigh." (tags: [johnsequeira](http://delicious.com/sogrady/johnsequeira) [google](http://delicious.com/sogrady/google) [appengine](http://delicious.com/sogrady/appengine) [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud) [paas](http://delicious.com/sogrady/paas) [database](http://delicious.com/sogrady/database) [sql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/sql)) - [JabberWerx AJAX | alexking.org](http://alexking.org/blog/2008/09/05/jabberwerx-ajax) this is excellent stuff. there's a lot XMPP can do for sites, and these Ajax enabling libraries will help presumably help it get there. (tags: [jabberwerx](http://delicious.com/sogrady/jabberwerx) [ajax](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ajax) [alexking](http://delicious.com/sogrady/alexking) [jabber](http://delicious.com/sogrady/jabber) [crowdfavorite](http://delicious.com/sogrady/crowdfavorite)) - [Tim Boudreau's Blog: Nobody Thinks They're An Enterprise](http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2008/08/nobody_thinks_t.html) pushback on traditional enterprise marketing and its vernacular (tags: [timboudreau](http://delicious.com/sogrady/timboudreau) [marketing](http://delicious.com/sogrady/marketing) [enterprise](http://delicious.com/sogrady/enterprise) [developer](http://delicious.com/sogrady/developer)) - [Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth](http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html) i can quite honestly say i've never seen anything like this. anything remotely like this, in fact. (tags: [yemen](http://delicious.com/sogrady/yemen) [weird](http://delicious.com/sogrady/weird) [travel](http://delicious.com/sogrady/travel) [socotra](http://delicious.com/sogrady/socotra) [nature](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nature) [evolution](http://delicious.com/sogrady/evolution) [via:blizzard](http://delicious.com/sogrady/via%3Ablizzard)) - [Schneier on Security: Movie Plot Threats in The Guardian](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/09/movie_plot_thre_2.html) "In 2006, UK police arrested the liquid bombers not through diligent airport security, but through intelligence and investigation. It didn't matter what the bombers' target was. It didn't matter what their tactic was. They would have been arrested regardless. That's smart security. Now we confiscate liquids at airports, just in case another group happens to attack the exact same target in exactly the same way. That's just illogical." precisely. so much of security is theatre, and each inconvenience – or worse, sacrificed liberty – is a win for those that would cause terror. (tags: [terrorism](http://delicious.com/sogrady/terrorism) [security](http://delicious.com/sogrady/security) [schneier](http://delicious.com/sogrady/schneier) [psychology](http://delicious.com/sogrady/psychology) [politics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/politics)) - [Paper tigers and hidden dragons » Untangled](http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/paper-tigers-and-hidden-dragons) "The point is that you don’t need to change technologies (or even interaction styles) to solve a problem of information transfer efficiency. Sometimes you just need to rethink the problem. There are many systems for which a different architecture is far more efficient, just as XMPP is far more efficient than HTTP for something like group chat. Large-scale collaborative monitoring is not one of them. An XMPP solution is far more applicable to peer-to-peer monitoring, where there is no central service that is interested in the entire state of a big site like Flickr, but even then we have to keep in mind that the economics of the crowd will dictate scalability, not the protocol used for information transfer." (tags: [royfielding](http://delicious.com/sogrady/royfielding) [xmpp](http://delicious.com/sogrady/xmpp) [http](http://delicious.com/sogrady/http) [web](http://delicious.com/sogrady/web) [software](http://delicious.com/sogrady/software) [scalability](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scalability) [pubsub](http://delicious.com/sogrady/pubsub) [scaling](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scaling) [notification](http://delicious.com/sogrady/notification) [messaging](http://delicious.com/sogrady/messaging) [performance](http://delicious.com/sogrady/performance)) - [Roald Dahl's seductive work as a British spy – Telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2655185/Roald-Dahls-seductive-work-as-a-British-spy.html) who knew that the author of James and the Giant Peach was not only a rake, but a spy? (tags: [roalddahl](http://delicious.com/sogrady/roalddahl) [spy](http://delicious.com/sogrady/spy) [sex](http://delicious.com/sogrady/sex) [espionage](http://delicious.com/sogrady/espionage) [war](http://delicious.com/sogrady/war)) - [Google Code Blog: Two new ways to location-enable your web apps](http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/08/two-new-ways-to-location-enable-your.html) this is older, but very cool (tags: [gears](http://delicious.com/sogrady/gears) [geolocation](http://delicious.com/sogrady/geolocation) [webdesign](http://delicious.com/sogrady/webdesign) [web2.0](http://delicious.com/sogrady/web2.0) [software](http://delicious.com/sogrady/software) [programming](http://delicious.com/sogrady/programming) [mobile](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mobile)) - [Twitter / Brenda Wallace: Cannot believe how long of …](http://twitter.com/br3nda/statuses/886788995) Solaris packaging complaints (tags: [solaris](http://delicious.com/sogrady/solaris) [packaging](http://delicious.com/sogrady/packaging) [brendawallace](http://delicious.com/sogrady/brendawallace))