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Announcing DevLabs!
"There are 4 projects initially available through DevLabs:
Popfly - An easy way to build and share mashups, games and other cool web apps.
Small Basic - A new spin on an old favorite designed to make programming more accessible for beginners.
Pex - A tool that can analyze your program to help you easily identify test cases that will exercise those hard to reach code paths.
Chess - A tool to help make testing concurrent programs more deterministic."
Dev-Friendly Web Caching
"I commented and, of course, focused solely on one aspect of his announcement (performance) while missing the big picture—getting real HTTP caching into developers’ hands in as easy a fashion as possible.
As Ryan points out, this is absolutely crucial, because if they don’t consider it from the start, it can be really hard to tack caching on later (after the resources and their representations and identifiers have been baked).
At Yahoo!, I’ve spent a lot of time working on this problem from the other end; Squid. Even its most fervent admirers (yes, there are a few) will admit that Squid isn’t exactly developer-friendly; it’s aimed more at the sysadmin / network geek crowd. And while the best Web folks have a good understanding of that world (if they don’t come from it), this still leaves out the bulk of people who can benefit from HTTP caching."
RFC3966: The tel URI for Telephone Numbers
tel:+1-201-555-0123 makes sense, but then see "tel:7042;phone-context=example.com" and "tel:863-1234;phone-context=+1-914-555"
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