Monthly Archives: September 2006

links for 2006-09-30

Team Comment on Web Services Transfer (WS-Transfer) Submission “The Team also plans to ask the Technical Architecture Group (TAG) to investigate the impact of this technology on the architecture of the Web” Time for some ass kicking!! 8-) (tags: wsdeathstar webservices wstransfer w3c tag) To be or not to be a RESTafarian – A Matter… Read More »

links for 2006-09-29

Rocket Man My friend and business partner, John Criswick, will be Canada’s first space tourist. (tags: johncriswick space spacetourist ottawa canada) Techdirt: .mobi’s Sales Yardstick Once Again Shows It’s All About The Money Of course it is. (tags: dotmobi mobile mobileweb tld) REST (Representational State Transfer) – Enterprise Applications – Network Computing What a strange… Read More »

links for 2006-09-28

learning bzr “I guess I hadn’t fully internalized the “distributed” in Distributed Version Control System […]”. Perhaps “Decentralized” would be more accurate? (tags: decentralized distributed versioncontrol)

links for 2006-09-27

Trends: Vignette eats its own portal food Nasty URLs, but they’ll soon discover the problems with them by using them themselves. (tags: rest uri url cms vignette) mobcode – Respect the web “Over the last few years I have seen the light and come to appreciate the wonderful, messy, hacked-together, really useful real world of… Read More »

links for 2006-09-26

Special Report: Standards Rule – Software News by InformationWeek “Case in point: The Web services alphabet soup of WSDL, SOAP and UDDI. These standards enable unprecedented interoperability among critical business applications.” *groan* (tags: webservices soa)

Africa, check

I updated my list of visited countries, which finally shows some red on the African continent, in the Kingdom of Morocco. The meeting was in Rabat, the capital city, and it was pleasant enough. A bit like Ottawa I suppose, in that it looked and felt like a “lite” version of a larger, neighbouring city… Read More »

links for 2006-09-25

Socialtext REST Documentation Via eekim, a nice “Wiki API”. None of the Flickr-inspired method-in-the-URI ugliness. (tags: rest wiki socialtext)

Spammers 1, GMail 0

When I first started using GMail 2 1/2 years ago, I used to get perhaps 1 or 2% spam. When I checked my email this morning, it was 85% spam (104 of 122). Google hasn’t been keeping up with the spammers, so I should probably consider reinstituting my own de-spamming filter. What’s the state of… Read More »

links for 2006-09-22

PBwiki Developer API / GetPage *sigh* Wiki’s already have the equivalent of “GetPage” – it’s called HTTP GET on the page’s URI. (tags: wiki rest pbwiki http uri) AdWords API Blog: Using V4 After October 1st “If you plan on using V4 on or after October 1, you have two options”. More Google evolution problems.… Read More »