Category: Software and Programming

Ben Trott says that XML-RPC is just ascii, while Fredrik Lundh says it isn’t. So who is right? I guess that depends on the implementation.

This is posted through Zempt (using Eric Kidd’s XML-RPC library) to Movable Type (using Perl’s Soap-Lite module). Can it have international characters?

Answer: not quite. Something in the pipeline (either the Zempt text box or Eric Kidd’s library) treats the text as 8-bit Hebrew. However, The standard has been updated.

Also, Fredrik Lundh has written an unofficial best-practices in XML-RPC document.

Xml Extras is a cross-browser XML-in-Javascript library (through blogzilla).

I first came across UltraEdit as a tool to edit UNIX files on Windows, instead of messing around with telnet and vi: It was a fine text editor with an integrated ftp client that let you easily open, edit and save files to a Unix machine from the comfort of your desktop.

BVRDE is much more ambitious than that: it tries to be a “Remote IDE” for editing, compiling and debugging Unix projects from a Windows machine, transfering files with ftp and talking to make and gdb through telnet behind the scenes. Like a lot of cool editing environments recently, it uses Scintilla.