Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

April 2010

Reading proceedings (http://bit.ly/bMLbOy [pdf 4MB]) & some of 2010 papers (http://bit.ly/8Y9Rlj [zip 14.1MsPhD

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RT @googleos: Disable ’s social features http://bit.ly/azF5Pn // Yay! Waited for this for so long! <3 the way this works :D

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Jobs’ Thoughts on http://bit.ly/bmB1IY. Seems to concern more/all cross platform devel tools, tho. , clarify pls! //CC @jhaynie

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RT @newsycombinator: #REST isn’t what you think it is, and that’s OK http://bit.ly/cbTXxl (via @BinaryJunkie)

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@yeahrock Then ignore params is your friend. And Google ;-) Really! :-P

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@yeahrock Both have their pros & cons, usually also access rights are involved (very often people can’t send headers, but may modify <meta>)

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@yeahrock Read this http://bit.ly/dhg7MP on the canonical tag, then read this http://bit.ly/9cqses on param handling :D Google’s your friend

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AndrewWahbe I was thinking about acquiring Palm too but was just too busy with other stuff…

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.@timbray about the blogging at #Google culture, specifically in the #Android team (see last 2 <p>-s): http://ff.im/-jxQeE (via @retomeier)

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Lies & half-truths in Steve Jobs’ piecelash: http://bit.ly/d9HoHa, nice post@jesterxlerxl! (@jhaynieynie)

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RT @jhaynie: My thoughts on Steve Jobs post: http://bit.ly/a44Wym // (<== cross-platform devel kit)

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Again on the anti-social ;-) => Q: http://bit.ly/9immZD A: http://bit.ly/cMnnjg (via @ ElbertF, @ googlereader)

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RT @al3x: This is a great case study of one of the more powerful ideas in the Go programming language: http://bit.ly/c6ML9f //

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@retomeier Sounds good. Question is: feedback in what sense? UI? Technical? Also +1 for @timbray’s doubt.

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.@johnallsopp, @codepo8: Reg. Google geo lookup: simply parse the object google.loader.ClientLocation in http://bit.ly/aSW0gW (raw JS)

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gvanrossum More Bad English, Please! http://ostatic.com/blog/…

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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin after @chilcote noticed that @planetbeing features ‘em in http://bit.ly/d0Io9b :D

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@MartinAssmann LOL, ich bin Facebook-Freund von Douglas Crockford :-)

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@jeffrey_thomas That’s the topic of my PhD :D Follow if you want. What’s your background? Interested in academia? Maybe co-publish?

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@mikepinkerton +1 for 5.0.375.17 stability! No crash so far! The previous release was worse ;-)

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WSREST2010 @jeffrey_thomas Papers are going to be published in the ACM DL, will send link as soon as the proceedings are ready

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Probably the strongest argument to convince people to switch to is “interoperability”.

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RT @stilkov: Twitter coverage severely lacking in depth. I expect tons of blog posts, folks, please don’t disappoint me // +1

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.@bsletten Would love to learn from your ideas! Obviously aspects of will have to be sacrificed, think eg , but still

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Drafting my 1st paper. Working title: “A proposal for an intermediate layer to access legacy Web services in a ful way”

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Understanding how Twitter is used to spread scientific messages: http://bit.ly/aBtHHj. Tweeting this feels recursive ;-)

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googleos Flash and AIR coming to Android. “Google is happy to be partnering with Adobe to bring the full web to Android.” http://bit.ly/a2wtiI

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is simply a representation of http://bit.ly/cPSYTs. Emphasizing this after reading the RDF primer http://bit.ly/c1ycEp

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Carnage4Life This was so predictable it’s hilarious - http://www.openlike.org

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@mikepinkerton Yay! This bug always made me move back to Firefox. Thanks all / devs for fixing it!

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RT @avinashkaushik: I am on Twitter & Facebook. But is it weird that I do not want “Social to be the default on the Web”? // +1

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Correction to tweet http://bit.ly/bbWUoT: the 5-Level Maturity Model is by @guilhermecaelum, not by @paulo_caelum. Thanks, @paulo_caelum :-)

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@webr3 @mamund Don’t know your friends ;-) This just came into my mind while reading http://bit.ly/c3shil & seeiTful” API all over.

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Peace is more than the absence of war. is more than the absence of .

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After Richardsons Maturity Model http://bit.ly/bwgTVF a 5-Level Maturity Model proposal by @paulo_caelum http://bit.ly/9ZYRUm

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HTTPS (yeah, -’S’!) caching & Internet ExploMSIE http://bit.ly/diJ6Q1 Now this is totally new to me. (@mamundmun@Souders@souders)

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Classific. of HTTP-based APIs http://bit.ly/9Lh9mS @algermissen “From HTTP-based Type II to REST might be as easy as deleting docs”

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chanezon profound thoughts by tog, ex-Apple’s Human Interface Evangelist, about the Apple platforms, Mac and iPad, must read http://bit.ly/96nB25

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licenses do matter on code.google.com. Read this story http://bit.ly/c6FZGN by @yaypie & the update@miragliaglia /@cdibonabona

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Douglas Crockford’s view on http://bit.ly/d5Lino slide 61+. Not sure I agree 100%. Liking “the new DOM should look like an Ajax lib”.

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RT @noradio: Just opensourced a little tool called , an enabled curl for the Twitter API http://bit.ly/9UELeq

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RT @kent12345 We hire Customer Solutions Engineers in Chicago, NYC //+HAM, MAD, PAR, LHR, MXP// http://bit.ly/9tbzX1 & http://bit.ly/c0khV8

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RT @rgladwell: RT @mamund: RFC5849: The #OAuth 1.0 Protocol http://ff.im/-jdqA9

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@jcgregorio Not me, but hoping for your coverage, also see http://bit.ly/dAWCww. Thanks :-) #ashtag

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Duh, missing @WSREST2010 / @WWW2010 :( Would’ve been an awesome conference / workshop for . Please live-tweet!

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dalmaer How bad was @codepo8 as a JS coder in his youth? “Seven JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career” http://bit.ly/bTV4Nl ;)

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Every time you say “backslash” as part of a Web address on air, I die a little. http://bit.ly/9lhHCD

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Did you ever enter “about:histograms” in the / omnibox? Me neither, till I read http://bit.ly/aAqAEy

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mamund RESTful Profiling : XHTML-based Web APIs - “using XHTML Profiles to express hypermedia semantics” http://ff.im/-jbsYn

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If you are into , definitely check these totally awesome slides: http://bit.ly/cXuOY2 [coded in HTML5] by @edr (via @dalmaer)

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RT @brady: Twitter’s launching annotations: devs can attach any type of metadata to tweets they upload. // http://bit.ly/cYlR5j via @jhaynie

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Currently “make”-ing for , plus repeated in Practice (http://bit.ly/9lRGvl [23MB! zipped .pptx]) by @jimwebber et al.

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andreascon Is Android Evil? http://bit.ly/bj4mmx An analysis of the control points behind the most-closed product in the history of open source

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RT @timbray: Korean Android ads: http://is.gd/bu8fp BTW, the little guy is CC-licensed: http://www.android.com/b…

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Doing fun things w/ my . Hint: seeing lots of skateboarding bots :-)

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In the light of recent events @echofon 0.99.5 Echofon_0.99.5.dmg can be found at http://bit.ly/d1PdmA

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mattcutts Powerful new real-time search features: http://goo.gl/Vo2Z Timeline view + months (soon: years) of previous tweets

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The “Schedule Bot” app might make your re:publica session planning easier. Does one thing, and one thing well! (via @scholt)

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Forgot to mention at my re:publica talk: Munich (October) pre-announcement http://bit.ly/aYMrGX

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The demo app “Buzz da Rhymes” from my re:publica talk’s available at http://tomayac.com/buzz Have fun! Pun not intended!

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Done w/ my #Google #Buzz talk at re:publica #rp10 Berlin. Reply @tomayac or comment on http://bit.ly/dvFxcw. Oh, Wi-Fi’s down ;-)

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RT @DavidKaneda: Update on Section 3.3.1 — PhoneGap’s in: http://bit.ly/6x0kY1 #WOOT

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appcelerator Snapost Update *Approved for Sale* after agreeing Thursday to new iPhone 4.0 License Agreement. Yahoo!

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Buzz da Rhymes http://bit.ly/do4AIb => Having fun w/

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RT @jerem: Nice use of data parameters on the This API: http://j.mp/buzz-this-api

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nelson Ugh, apache.org got compromised, password hash database stolen http://bit.ly/9qbIt3. Passwords are stupid security.

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@_Yllier_ Cool. Not sure if I need all of the new features, though. How about adding toggles in settings to turn on/off UI elements?

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RT @stilkov OPTIONS is often not supported by servers, blocked by intermediaries & returns wrong info. Other than that it’s finesPhD

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@helixblue Did a quick search but couldn’t find anything (not an SVN expert though). Do you have a pointer where I could find it documented?

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@stilkov |_ () |_ <== character waste //Any response tho? Really wonder why things are as they are. OPTIONS seems so, erm, adequate

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Havin workd trhu HTTP spec I wondr why no1 uses OPTIONS http://bit.ly/9cBApG for #Hypermedia #HATEOAS //CC @stilkov @mamund @izuzak #TomsPhD

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RT @stilkov (modified): @mamund Not 100% != RPC. There’re more aspects than Hypermedia! // I’m more w/ @stilkov here

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If you’re into , consider following Stuart Charlton’s (@svrc) blog: http://bit.ly/cHgLkn (via @bsletten &a@mamundmusPhD

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@_Yllier_ Never used it in landscape, so OK w/ me. What new features? Just curious ;-)

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RT @vinoaj: users, time to switch to the async code now that factors site speed into ranking http://bit.ly/cSmss0 // +1

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ydn You asked for it… Here’s access to the Yahoo! Firehose: http://bit.ly/axoQsm

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@BinaryJunkie Guess that’s part of the debate. I interpret http://bit.ly/crNIWg so that POST should be used if server decides the location.

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Done w/ the spec http://bit.ly/atwWNN Refreshed Basic & Digest Access Auth spec http://bit.ly/c6Ym4X Good learning experiesPhD

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jasonzada OH : “I’m gonna get a tattoo that says ‘Helvetica’, but I am going to get it in Arial. When a woman corrects me on it, I will marry her”

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“The fundamental difference betw. the POST & PUT requests’s reflected in the different meaning of the Req-URI” http://bit.ly/crN class=”hashtag” rel=”search” href=”//twitter.com/search?q=%23TomsPhD”>#TomsPhDsPhD

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Getting “The application NetworkStatus quit unexpectedly” w/ your @alice_de on ? Try the patch http://bit.ly/9kGDYL

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RT @stilkov: RT @peterfriese: Another nice #section331 post by @lobrien: http://bit.ly/cfhSHo —— “2 lines of technical absurdity”, very true

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Thanks, @alice_de, finally got an in the O2 shop at Gänsemarkt this eve :-) There seem to remain some, hurry up!

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googlewmc New post: Using site speed in web search ranking http://goo.gl/fb/7mkqc

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“Every Web app dev needs to take a few hrs to read RFC2616. It’s not so long & incredibly readable for a spec” http://bit.ly/dzE class=”hashtag” rel=”search” href=”//twitter.com/search?q=%23TomsPhD”>#TomsPhDsPhD

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Finally reading the /1.1 spec: http://bit.ly/atwWNN Almost finished the protocols bibliography.

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I will give a talk at re:publica in Berlin, Germany on , titled “Google Buzz for the rest of us”: http://bit.ly/bS1UtF

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Wow! / emulator for free in the for / today! Now this is at its best!

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RT @johnallsopp: If developers ever doubted the importance of open platforms Apple today should have cleared that up for you. // +1

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jhaynie Our immediate response to apple’s 3.3.1 TOS rule: http://developer.appcele…

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rakesh314 Lol. I love how Apple is treating Adobe. RT @gruber: iAds are pure HTML5, so it’s a bonus fuck-you to Adobe, too.

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_Yllier_ iAd: another reason to get Firewall iP :D

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Write “better”(?) less error-prone w/ the commas first style? You decide: http://bit.ly/a1lK6F (via @dalmaer)

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.@onlythoughtwork You still need a US shipping address, but thank God there’s @BundleBox (via @stilkov)

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@russenreaktor, @onlythoughtwork Try adding “&gl=US” to the URL, this sets the _g_eographic _l_ocation to US. Works ogle Search, too.

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.@stilkov I covered this ugly kind of GET APIs in Describe & Compile http://bit.ly/8XtOZM [vid] or http://bit.ly/bASOFZ [pdf slide 15]

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RT @JohnMu: Tweak some CSS & JavaScript files and get 15% more conversions; what are you waiting for? http://bit.ly/dfOxfQ

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@alice_de Thanks for the trouble-free migration of my home DSL & phone. However tick promo ifail w/ supply << demand!

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@TNVS any more news on version 1.5.4 or 2.0? // +1 (RT @Starbuck_com_au)

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@jerem Félicitations! Un gain pour l’b et pourd!

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.@onlythoughtwork Importing del.icio.us bookmarks into http://bit.ly/coib6y Confirmed working for my account.

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Went a little greener: replaced all our nine 35W GU10 halogen bulbs w/ 3W low-power LED bulbs: http://bit.ly/cHbiJq Go too!

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Yay! car dock available: http://bit.ly/9C2Oev (via @teamsilence23, @kmobs, @cyanogen)

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“So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.” http://bit.ly/ceoRMD // So true! (via @sroberts, @al3x)

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RT @Souders: My favorite ShowSlow.com now lets you compare the YSlow and Page Speed scores across multiple web sites: http://bit.ly/agTUjQ

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