Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Jason Coombs on Bugtraq: „I wrote an information security book last year under contract with Microsoft Press. The book was never published — among other things it explains truthfully the poor security condition of Windows and offers detailed instructions and advice for defending against Microsoft’s bad business practices and incorrect security decisions. URLs for the…

Clay Shirky does a great job explaining why the Semantic Web is a myth: „Descriptions of the Semantic Web exhibit an inversion of trivial and hard issues because the core goal does as well. The Semantic Web takes for granted that many important aspects of the world can be specified in an unambiguous and universally…

Jon Udell: „Point-to-point integration is out; event-driven communication across a common message bus is in. When you build a system this way, message queues are the first and best way to take the pulse of its real-time state.“

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…

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…

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

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.

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…

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…