Web Things, by Mark Baker

• 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 of Perspective: Loek Bakker’s weblog
  “And with more and more people suffering from WS-* protocol fatigue, that is very very welcome in my opinion.”
  (tags: rest wsdeathstar webservices soa restvsoa restvsoap)

• 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 article. Some great insight in places, but also some whoppers. In the end the conclusion is the predictable “SOA for complex apps, REST for simple ones”.
  (tags: rest soap soa webservices restvsoa restvsoap)
• Design by Committee: A trip down memory lane with Flickr Maps
  “But what was unexpected to me is that the act of geotagging, rather than the chore I expected, is rewarding in and of itself”
  (tags: gps flickr flickrmaps geotagging)

That, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call a bad algorithm.

• 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)

• 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 the web”
  (tags: rest web)

• 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)

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 (Casablanca/Toronto). It was surprisingly liberal for a muslim country … or at least what I imagined a muslim country to be, never having been to one. I wasn’t expecting tight fitting pants to outnumber burkas by a couple of orders of magnitude. 8-)

And what trip to Africa would be complete without gastrointestinal problems? Alas, not this one 8-(

I’ll be uploading images to my Flickr photostream soon.

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

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 the art nowadays?

• 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. Why are they burdening their many users with implementation details?
  (tags: google adwords web)