When somebody mentioned "URL" the other day, it started me thinkin' (I know, you think that's a hard-start) about all that Internet stuff Dany knows about, "avatars" and such, and then Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and all them; so I decided to look some of it up to see "what they're up to," so to speak.
Some of it's "funny sounding" stuff--puts you in mind of that squiggly writin' at the bottom right side of a cancelled check (don't go changin' a check after it clears the bank--that squiggle is the amount of the cashed check). Anyway, about URL--it's not your brother-in-law's first name (Earl), it's not the time of day (like now-early-5:30 in the mornin'), and it's not how your tools get (oily) when you've overhauled an engine. It's Uniform Resource Locator which is "an address widget" (no wonder that IRS gal wasn't surprised when I gave her "Black Bart Widgets" for an address).
WWW- World Wide Web-(or "where we're wedged" at right now, I think).
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol - the primary method of conveying WWW information, the original purpose of which was to provide a way to publish and receive HTML (a set of tags & rules to develop hypertext documents) pages, culminating in publication of RFC2616, the version of HTTP in common use today. Got that?
You have to give Bill and Steve credit--no mere mortal could plow through this stuff without goin' off the deep end. Still, it's got lighter moments--I found this under "Editing the Web": Problem: Detecting the Lost Update Problem Using Unreserved Checkout-W3C Note of May 10, 1999 by Frystyk and LaLiberte (I'da been disappointed if was the work of Smith and Jones, wouldn't you?) Anyhow, they say "avoiding the lost update problem has been a notorious challenge when editing remotely." They give an example of how to do that using a fictitional example (the setting appears to be a soap opera at the grocery store--not sure). It says, "Ron saves his Edits (maybe a new type of detergent). Shirley saves her Edits (bet she uses cold water, too), but didn't see Ron's Edits (why wouldn't he let her see it? Soap's soap.), which are lost in the operation (now I know it's a soap opera).
Then they give: "other ways to solve the lost update (don't get it--why's your date up or down? An' how'd ye lose 'er?) problem--each with varying level of complexity." The "other" ways are:
OBC - Out-of-band communication and social agreements (Ron plays solo bass fiddle and Shirley agrees to put up with it).
UCAD - Unreserved Checkout with Automatic Detection and Manual Resolution of Conflicts at Checkin. (Two possibilities: (1) she tells Ron he's a cad. (2) you can buy all the detergent you want while it's on sale, but they always got a camera on you and if you overdo it too bad, they'll have security rassle you to the floor next time you come back).
EW/SL - Early warning of potential future conflicts--shared locks. (If they see you comin' back with a shotgun; they lock you out and take your key back).
PCP - Persistent Cache Protocol. (Two possibilities again: (1) It's drugs. (2) Both Ron & Shirley want to hold on to what they catch (don't know why--usually you'd go to the doctor to get rid of it),
I better say it again. Beware of geeks bearing gifts.
Some of it's "funny sounding" stuff--puts you in mind of that squiggly writin' at the bottom right side of a cancelled check (don't go changin' a check after it clears the bank--that squiggle is the amount of the cashed check). Anyway, about URL--it's not your brother-in-law's first name (Earl), it's not the time of day (like now-early-5:30 in the mornin'), and it's not how your tools get (oily) when you've overhauled an engine. It's Uniform Resource Locator which is "an address widget" (no wonder that IRS gal wasn't surprised when I gave her "Black Bart Widgets" for an address).
WWW- World Wide Web-(or "where we're wedged" at right now, I think).
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol - the primary method of conveying WWW information, the original purpose of which was to provide a way to publish and receive HTML (a set of tags & rules to develop hypertext documents) pages, culminating in publication of RFC2616, the version of HTTP in common use today. Got that?
You have to give Bill and Steve credit--no mere mortal could plow through this stuff without goin' off the deep end. Still, it's got lighter moments--I found this under "Editing the Web": Problem: Detecting the Lost Update Problem Using Unreserved Checkout-W3C Note of May 10, 1999 by Frystyk and LaLiberte (I'da been disappointed if was the work of Smith and Jones, wouldn't you?) Anyhow, they say "avoiding the lost update problem has been a notorious challenge when editing remotely." They give an example of how to do that using a fictitional example (the setting appears to be a soap opera at the grocery store--not sure). It says, "Ron saves his Edits (maybe a new type of detergent). Shirley saves her Edits (bet she uses cold water, too), but didn't see Ron's Edits (why wouldn't he let her see it? Soap's soap.), which are lost in the operation (now I know it's a soap opera).
Then they give: "other ways to solve the lost update (don't get it--why's your date up or down? An' how'd ye lose 'er?) problem--each with varying level of complexity." The "other" ways are:
OBC - Out-of-band communication and social agreements (Ron plays solo bass fiddle and Shirley agrees to put up with it).
UCAD - Unreserved Checkout with Automatic Detection and Manual Resolution of Conflicts at Checkin. (Two possibilities: (1) she tells Ron he's a cad. (2) you can buy all the detergent you want while it's on sale, but they always got a camera on you and if you overdo it too bad, they'll have security rassle you to the floor next time you come back).
EW/SL - Early warning of potential future conflicts--shared locks. (If they see you comin' back with a shotgun; they lock you out and take your key back).
PCP - Persistent Cache Protocol. (Two possibilities again: (1) It's drugs. (2) Both Ron & Shirley want to hold on to what they catch (don't know why--usually you'd go to the doctor to get rid of it),
I better say it again. Beware of geeks bearing gifts.
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Pretty funny Bart. Half that stuff I didn't know what you were talking about 
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