I _Really_ Don't Know

I got a call from a friend the other day with a little bugette on his secure site. Bits of it kept getting cached by the browser - he'd been through the problem with the team and it turned out that several chunks of code generating pages that should not be cached by the browser were forgetting to set the necessary headers.

We started talking and I suggested that actually the page code was the wrong place and that we should get it into one place - in the webserver.

To do this we slapped together a quick NSAPI SAF to add the headers we wanted - in this case Expires, Cache-Control and Pragma.

The W3C have set up a working group to take on SOAP. Represented are IBM, Sun, HP, Vignette, Netscape, Lotus and, of course, Microsoft.

http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/

People keep asking me what a 3-tier architecture is and why we're building stuff that way...

Hmmmm...

I've just been through the process of writing guidelines and tests for recruiting developers into Egg. The challenge is this: How do you ensure that you get great people, rather than just good ones?

We had to tackle the integration of StoryServer into the rest of the enterprise this week. We decided to try and do this as simply as possible.