Monthly Archives: February 2008

Design for a RESTful Version Control System

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Stuart

I couldn’t sleep last night. So I designed a RESTful interface for version control. Yeah, that’s weird. We already have a nice model for RESTful document storage in Amazon’s S3. But S3 doesn’t do versioning. What if it did? A … Continue reading →

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At the Edge of Feasibility

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Stuart

Well, it happened. I ran out of space on the 250 GB drive I use to develop AltLaw. Not all that surprising, although it did happen sooner than I expected. I’m deleting gigabytes of cached data — file conversions, mostly … Continue reading →

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Crack for Engineers

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Stuart

I can’t help it. I just love big, complicated systems that let you get really precise about what you’re talking about. Types, classes, ontologies, schemas, normalization, denormalization, XML, RDF, XSLT, Java, … It’s all so cool. I can happily spend … Continue reading →

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In Search of the Grand Unified Data Model

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Stuart

Since I started working on AltLaw.org a little over a year ago, I’ve struggled with the data model. I’ve got around half a million documents, totally unstructured, from a dozen different sources. Each source has its own quirks and problems … Continue reading →

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