Pingback enabled
Inspired by Greg Reinacker's call to action, along with the baby waking me up unusually early, I decided to figure out how to implement trackback and/or pingback in Radio, when I found that Simon had already done it for me. Thanks, Simon!
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More on stored procs
James Robertson responded to my last post on stored procedures and database portability, supporting the idea of using stored procedures over portability. I agree with saying YAGNI to portability, unless that's your business plan. For example, Andres' company builds tools for databases, so it doesn't make sense to tie themselves to a single vendor. In the case where you get to dictate the DB, I think that the time is likely to be better spent elsewhere, if I thought my DB vendor was going to screw me or go belly up, that should automatically disqualify them.— Gordon Weakliem at permanent link
This problem doesn't seem all that much harder to me than syndicating and aggregating weblogs. In particular, both ends of the equation are likely to be behind a combination of firewalls, NAT, proxies, etc. Question to ponder: what technical, sociological, and legal innovations will be required to make this come about?[Sam Ruby]How about economic innovations? When I saw this post I immediately thought of three local businesses I patronize: The Wine Seller, Angelo's Pizza, and Pablo's (my local coffee house). For these businesses to engage in this type of arrangement, it would either have to be extremely inexpensive, or would have to yield outsized results. I'm amazed at the crude technology that most small businesses employ, mostly for reasons of cost. Sure, Starbucks can afford this, but if it's just Starbucks, et.al., I'm not interested. What makes weblogs interesting is that publishers can run one affordably and even I get to find the Wine Sellers, Angelo's and Pablo's of the web. 3 years ago, I'd guess most of my HTTP requests went to yahoo.com. These days, intertwingly.net is beating Yahoo! hands down.