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Dear Reader,

Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week Bob DuCharme offers the second, and final, part of his
introduction to RDFa, which is a serialization of RDF's data model
suitable for embedding in XHTML. In my more pessimistic moments, I think
that RDFa is at least three years too late. But the rest of the time, I
keep telling myself that everything takes longer than we think...

Introducing RDFa, Part Two
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/04/04/introducing-rdfa-part-two.html

Recent XML.com Weblog Highlights
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Michael Day, Which XML technologies are beautiful?
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/04/which_xml_technologies_are_bea.html

Kurt Cagle, XForms v. Ruby -- a rebuttal (sort of)
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/xforms_vs_ruby_a_rebuttal_sort.html

Yet Another Weekly Tab Sweep
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How to punctuate a sentence
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-to-punctuate-a-sentence.html

Okay, editors who rant about writing are really annoying; but being able
to write clear, correct English prose is probably the easiest way to become
a better software developer.

The absolute moron's guide to Capistrano
http://www.softiesonrails.com/2007/4/5/the-absolute-moron-s-guide-to-capistrano

As I mentioned last week, I'm using a Rails app, Radiant CMS, these days,
and I really like it. Capistrano is a Ruby app that eases the woes of
deploying Rails apps on servers. Useful stuff.

I suspect my heart will always belong to Python, and I don't *really* care
for Ruby, but I'm glad others do and there's *another* alternative to Java
for building web apps.

Not that everything in the Ruby world is that well done:

Ruby threads considered worthless...
http://ciaranm.org/show_post/110

Lately I've included, well, drool targets in the newsletter; that is,
things that I really *need*, but I'm not gonna ever get... I hope the
8-core Power Mac ain't one of them:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130396-c,cpus/article.html

Oh, momma!

Speaking of Apple, I got an Apple TV like two weeks ago, and I haven't
even set it up yet and already people have hacked (in the good sense) it
to pieces...I don't think this is what the Lazy Web means. :>

Apple TV: State of the Hacks
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/03/27/upgrading-apple-tvs-hard-drive.html

How to Protect a JSON or JavaScript Service
http://getahead.org/blog/joe/2007/04/04/how_to_protect_a_json_or_javascript_service.html

My newest Epigram of Technology seems somehow appropriate here: Every
technology solution eventually becomes a new technology problem.

Holy crap this is cool:

Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies
http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~butz/teaching/ie-ss03/papers/HCIinSF/

Finally, my friend Paul Ford just spent 18 months rebuilding Harpers.org
using RDF and Semantic Web stuff; the site is great, and, as a long time
Harper's subscriber, I'm really excited to look at some of those
historical issues -- they've got Harper's issues going back to 1850 online. Cool.

http://harpers.org/

As always, thanks for reading.

Kendall Clark
kendall@xml.com
Managing Editor, XML.com

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