New Web Links for Use on the “Best Effort” Internet

• The Ajax Blog dives into Google™ Pages. They built a sample page—an almost empty page—that produced 20 warnings in my Firefox plug-in, Tidy HTML Validator—and the punch line is: no Google Ads were on the page to cause the warnings! Most of the errors were related to open

elements. I wonder what the Web Standards Project BUZZ crew will say about this…

• Scott Hanselman on “XML Tools and Technologies” knocks the ball out of the park on this one. I think he and Carl finally got some chemistry going and the was content really informative. The links related to this show are invaluable.
• Java is not designed for CGI. Looking at Java from a PHP-hacker-using-shared-hosting point of view is like looking at a 500-pound commercial oven sitting in front of a hot dog stand. But Pat L. Durante seems to disagree: “Java makes a good language choice for writing CGI programs because it is a purely object-oriented language and offers connectivity to distributed objects and database management systems.” But without a continuously running process you will have to load the virtual machine for every call.
• Do Microsoft Money MVPs have a lot of money? Well someone had the time to get back to me about a previous Blog entry.

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