Jahr: 2005

Microsoft’s Mike Champion – MS Ignoring developer demand for REST tools?: „Plain ol‘ XML over HTTP works just fine, and WS-* is overkill, in situations where: * information is public and encryption/authentication are unnecessary; * all communication visible to the service consumer is done over one protocol, HTTP; * nothing terribly bad happens if a…

Robert Kaye – High order bits and Ontologies: „Then later in the afternoon, Clay Shirky talked about the difference between ontologies and folksonomies in his „Ontology is Overrated: Links, Tags, and Post-hoc Metadata“. With his usual flair Clay delivered a great overview of classic ontologies and all the issues that limit their usefulness on the…

„Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison shares a number…

„Many sites today return search results as an tightly integrated part of the website itself. Unfortunately, those search results can’t be easily reused or made available elsewhere, as they are usually wrapped in HTML and don’t follow any one convention. OpenSearch offers an alternative: an open format that will enable those search results to be…

Sam Ruby – Don’t Panic: „Just“ use HTTP. This is an updated version of my Attractive Nuisance at Chris Sell’s Applied XML Developers Conference 5.“

Paul Graham – How to Start a Startup: „In technology, the low end always eats the high end. It’s easier to make an inexpensive product more powerful than to make a powerful product cheaper. So the products that start as cheap, simple options tend to gradually grow more powerful till, like water rising in a…

Dan Benjamin – Regarding Ruby (and Ruby on Rails): „PHP gives you nothing. It’s up to each individual programmer to figure out the right way to do things – and to define what the „right way“ really is. Unfortunately, only experience can help define that, and by the time most programmers have reached this point,…

I knew there must be others experiencing the same weirdness: Experts Exchange says „after loading Service Pack 2 (XPSP2) the mouse cursor will at random start to scroll off the screen when there is no mouse activity.“ (Found via Computer Hardware Forum.)

David Megginson – REST design questions: „RESTafarians point out that REST is the basis of the Web’s success, but that’s really only the GET part (and its cousin, POST). Despite WebDAV, we have very little experience using PUT and DELETE even for regular web pages, much less to maintain a data repository. Even the much-touted…

Rasmus Lerdorf – Buzzing the Yahoo! Search Web Services: „I still much prefer the REST services out there. SOAP always reminds me of being stuck behind the guy in a hat driving a Lincoln Towncar. You eventually get to where you want to go, but the journey is painful. With REST you can just toss…