Monthly Archives: December 2005

TechCrunch – Gravee Takes a New Approach to Search

“Site claiming is done via whois information – meaning you must be in control of your domain name to claim the blog.” More “claiming”. Seeing this done more and more, ala OpenID, Technorati blog claiming. (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]

My Wikipedia policy

I don’t have one , which is probably just as well since I don’t (AFAIK) have a Wikipedia page 8-) (other Mark Bakers do though). But if you want authoritative, rather the concensus-derived (well, in the steady state at least) information on me, visit my home page. P.S. if you squint a little, you’ll see… Read More »

SOA Pipeline – Survivor’s Guide to 2006: Enterprise Apps and App Infrastructure

“Having learned from the failures of CORBA and RMI, SOA is better positioned to save the game than the technology that came before it”. Ahem. (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]

Maximus

You scored as Maximus. After his family was murdered by the evil emperor Commodus, the great Roman general Maximus went into hiding to avoid Commodus’s assassins. He became a gladiator, hoping to dominate the colosseum in order to one day get the chance of killing Commodus. Maximus is valiant, courageous, and dedicated. He wants nothing… Read More »

Noelios – Restlet 0.15 beta released

Restlets, an alternative to Servlets (and Netkernel, and …). Looks like a lot of thought went into this. Uses REST terms as names for Java artifacts. Interesting. (link) [del.icio.us/distobj]

When SOA consultants attack!

Jeff Schneider apparently takes offense to my Service Oriented Web presentation; Yes Mark, you can order a pizza with SOAP, with REST, with CORBA, with RMI, with EJB and more. Don’t tell that to the designers of the WS-Splat stack. As late as 2002, I was still being told by some of them that REST… Read More »

Obscurity

A bold statement from Ian Davis on his piece called “SOAP Destined to A Life of Obscurity“. He declares his suspicion that; […] SOAP is finally being sidelined into a niche activity. I think that’s slowly being realized by more and more people. It’s just never fast enough for me. 8-) As I mentioned in… Read More »