Autor: Tim Strehle

What’s the right way to design/structure a Web Service? These two articles show the limitations of SOAP: Hao He explains why SOAP is not SOA. And Paul Prescod promotes REST… „[REST] applies the principles of the Web to transaction-oriented services, rather than publishing-oriented sites. When we apply the strategy in the real world, we do…

I like Fredrik Kristiansen’s PHP Coding Standard better than the PEAR one, but we’re actually conforming to none of them…

Adam Trachtenberg at ONLamp.com: „Therefore, REST advocates claim, there’s no need to layer the increasingly complicated SOAP specification on top of these fundamental tools. […] There may be some community support for this philosophy. While SOAP gets all the press, there are signs REST is the Web service that people actually use. Since Amazon.com has…

Brian Goldfarb from Microsoft liked attending PHPCon, and John Coggeshall wonders why Microsoft might care about PHP. And David Sklar thinks there’s a Virtual Machine War going on between Parrot and CLR, especially now that Thies and Sterling started talking PHP/Parrot…

PHP Freaks reprints a Linux Journal article on Profiling with APD.

Dion Almaer (focused on Java, but interesting nevertheless): „This article discusses how caching data in front of the database can give our DB a break, and allow for faster running, and more available applications. In particular, We will look at: What is clustering? Using a distributed cache Caching strategies Read-through / Write-behind caching Technologies that…

Mark Sigal dreams of The inter-personal information manager: „One such tool that is needed I will call an inter-personal information manager (iPim). […] This iPim has seven key functions: search, save, organize, share, publish, play and transact. […] Ideally, the iPim can support traditional discussion-style threads, maintain associations between related content items (e.g., a product…

Jon Udell’s question: „Is all take and no give the dirty little secret of the open source movement?“ „Flashline sells a repository-based software asset management system. He [CEO Charles Stack] told us that his customers indeed manage lots of open source assets in that repository. What they don’t do, though, is share their modifications to…

PHP Everywhere: „With any of the following natural born killers, one thoughtless line of code can result in a unbearable x100 times slowdown: SQL statements Regular expressions Network calls“

PHP Everywhere lets us know that Thies Arntzen and Sterling Hughes are experimenting with PHP running in Perl 6’s Parrot VM (here’s a PDF of their slides). They say it’s FAST…