Looking back at the past 20 years of the history of the internet, one can realize that what we call today the web has changed dramatically, but that one thing is certain: it will continue to evolve. Gone are the days of manually editorialized directories, of static content, of one way conversations. Today we live in a dynamic, social, interactive web. And it’s a web that is traversing the digital realm and changing how we understand our physical world, breaking communication barriers and making information and knowledge easily accessible.
I have been working on AtomPub and coding a prototype over the past few evenings to get Apache Abdera talking to CouchDB. I know there is an experimental adapter in Abdera for CouchDB, but it does not use CouchDB the way I need to.
We knew it was coming. Met Office kept talking about. Heavy snow across the South East of England. Regardless, this morning is a complete mess, as expected, and the country comes to a halt, as usual.
I know I said I was not likely to fix pywbxml, but the
alternative was even less appealing. I know I have to move
away from Java, so here it is how to get pywbxml working.
I need to be able to receive wbxml (binary XML) and transform it to xml using the IMPS 1.1/1.2/1.3 dictionary in Python. In PHP, I was using the PHP PECL extension wbxml, which uses libwbxml (wbxml2). In python, I need pywbxml. I like MacPorts, and I’ll use that instead of compiling myself the packages.