Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

  • Apple Xserve: The final review

    Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Apple Xserve: The final review: „While trends, or rather, the analysts who proclaim them, are pointing to the triumph of software as a service, outsourced applications, consulting, node-locked operating systems and other pay-as-you-go approaches, Apple is piloting a rocket-powered sled in the opposite direction. Apple is going to sell complete…

  • Comparing Frameworks

    Tim Bray – Comparing Frameworks: „Maybe it’s just because I’m a grizzled 25-year veteran, but my feeling is that in the real world in the long term, maintainability is a really really big deal, the biggest of all. Out there in the wild woolly “Web 2.0” world, maybe getting it built quick is all that…

  • The Next Web?

    Simon St. Laurent at XML.com – The Next Web?: „Developers who craft smart APIs on their servers for use by AJAX-based web pages can then expose those APIs to other developers, getting the benefits of better interfaces for users who use web browsers to consume the data and for users who have their own custom…

  • A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab

    David Weiss – A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab: „I’m going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what’s it’s like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events or special visits from our MVPs I’ll…

  • Web apps, just give me the data

    Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Web apps, just give me the data: „Scraping data off Web pages can be effective, but it’s far from ideal. Although we think of the Web as a rich trove of data, the pickings are depressingly slim if you want to transform or recombine that data. And there’s no good…

  • Trade-offs

    Sam Ruby – Trade-offs: „Contrary to what some will lead you to believe, I submit that it is possible for a query to be simultaneously SOAP, REST, RPC, POX, and transmitted using HTTP POST. And all this could be done with or without a WSDL document or an XML schema.“

  • IBM Lotus Expeditor

    „Lotus Expeditor software (a release planned for later in 2006) provides client and the corresponding server-side connectors for these capabilities: * Composition. Provides comprehensive universal managed client software for service-oriented architecture (SOA). It can be used to build and deploy composite applications containing components of all types—from Java™ Foundation Class Swing, text terminal, Microsoft Visual…