Mike-O-Matic

As I’ve started development on Wonton, the first step was to determine the protocol for the server. There was a time when this was a fairly complicated thing; you had to set up your server sockets, figure out how you wanted to structure your messages, build parsers and handle errors, set up your client […]

Oracle is a fickle mistress.
In the quest to extend the tenticles of the database to every part of the enterprise, Oracle (the company) has incorporated many questionable things into Oracle (the database). I still remember programming a stored procedure to connect to the United Parcel Service web server over HTTP with a particular undocumented […]

For a long time, people looking to introduce animations to their website needed to resort to a third-party plugin such as Flash or Java applets to get the job done. The recent rise of AJAX and DHTML have changed the argument substantially. Semantic web programming, CSS, and Javascript form a powerful platform which […]