Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Joe Gregorio cites: „The core of Lucene Web Service API is primarily based on the Atom Publishing Protocol, with a few extensions. We’ve added the ability to get and set properties of any index or the service itself. For searching, we’ve based our implementation on the OpenSearch 1.1 protocol.“

Eliot Kimber – Getting Started: Who the Hell are You and Why Should I Care What You Think?: „I’ve made more mistakes than most and had my share of successes. I’ve learned a lot of hard lessons. And I’m just arrogant enough to think that my opinion has serious weight (or maybe more than arrogant…

Tim Bray on SOAP/WSDL vs. REST – WS-Angst: „Me, I think the WS-stench of something WS-rotting from the WS-head down is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.“

Jeff Han – Multi-Touch Interaction Research: „While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations.“

Sean McGrath at ITworld.com – The library IS the programming language: „In my opinion, any competent programmer should be able to pick up a new imperative programming language in a couple of days. They are all the same really. Actually, deep down they are in fact totally the same. However, it is not reasonable to…

On the W3C QA Weblog – Content Negotiation: why it is useful, and how to make it work: „A negotiation algorithm trusting a cookie showing that the user has chosen a language different than the one negotiated based on its Accept-Language: header information, and defaulting to Accept-based negotiation in the absence of such a cookie,…

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – A pro-PHP Rant: „Meanwhile, in these days of long tail enthusiasm, other than PHP, you don’t get to hear much about when stuff sucks. Put specifically, don’t bring me your FastCGI unless you’re providing free SMS to go with it, so I can alert myself when it goes down.“

Graham Hamilton – Raving about Java EE 5: „For Java EE 5 we had some wide ranging goals: * Eliminate common boilerplate. If millions of developers need to type something, it had better be both useful and necessary. * Focus in on „Plain Old Java Objects“ (POJOs). In particular, get rid of unnecessary interfaces and…

Adam Kalsey – Versioning REST: „One thing I dislike about URL schemes for versioning a web services resource is it feels decidedly un-RESTful. The URL of a resource shouldn’t change simply because the format of that resource’s representation does. […] In Tagyu, I’ve going to accomplish this by placing a <versions/> element in the XML…

François Nonnenmacher – On Java: „In the past height years, while running my company web platform, I’ve eliminated two major things: Microsoft and Java, the two over which I’ve lost sleep. The big winner is LAMP with P as in PHP, Python and Perl. The new kid on the block is Ruby on Rails, though…