The practical benefits of literary forms- April 23, 2002 As blogspace evolves all around us, new forms of writing appear. I mean forms in a technical sense -- literary forms, or patterns of writing. One of the most interesting of these is David McCusker's. Recently he explained why and how he writes in stanzas, with five fixed-length lines per stanza. "This obviously isn't poetry," writes David. "So you might wonder, why do I do it" His answers resonated very much with my own sense of writing as an art which, like software, is...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/messaging/2002/04/23.html#a206 Jeffrey P Shell, Zope's lizard brain, and loosely-coupled messaging- April 18, 2002 I had a nice response to a recent column on Zope from Jeffrey P Shell, a longtime Zopista and former Digital Creations guy who has decamped to the skiiing life in Utah. Jeffrey wrote one of the first BYTE columns on Python, longer ago than the web seems to remember. Anyway, in my column I talked about scripting Zope from the outside, using the RESTian approach of reverse-engineering its HTML management forms and calling them as URLs. I knew that XML-RPC was another way to do this....http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/messaging/2002/04/18.html#a197 |