2006/11/20
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I’m speechless.
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2006/11/18
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Yeah! 8-) (via Libby Miller)
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You’ll always be invited to my parties, Nelson 8-)
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“Which brings to mind that it was ten years ago at that same conference (different name then) […]” I think it’s due another name change; “Web Data 2007” anyone?
2006/11/17
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Will wonders never cease?
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“When requests for new features overwhelmed Last.FM’s small staff, the company made the bold decision to create open interfaces to the site, and soon independent developers began piling in with enhancements.” Nice.
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Using all the right buzzwords, and avoiding all the wrong ones. Sounds like fun.
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Robin gets indoctrinated?
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Apparently he finds karma.
2006/11/16
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Good interview, including a good anti-complexity anti-WS-* bit. (@16:30).
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“OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page.”. v2.2 released.
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Mark falls a peg on my respect-o-meter.(not to worry Mark, you’re still way up there 8-)
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OMG, this would be hilarious if weren’t so true. “Well, this new style isn’t actually written down anywhere.” Bingo! ROTFL!
2006/11/15
Sanjiva gave a talk at Google on Web services, which also touched on REST. Unfortunately there’s a lot of misinformation in there about REST, including a statement to the effect of “If you want to sign your message, you can’t use REST” (I don’t think I’m taking that out of context), plus a slide (@ 25:00) that includes the following;
REST vs. WS-* is the wrong battle - WS-* is used to create Service Oriented Architecture - REST is used to create Resource Oriented Architecture
When taken together with some other comments, it appears as though Sanjiva sees REST as an alias for HTTP (or perhaps HTTP/URI), which it isn’t of course. He’s certainly entitled to his own beliefs, but I think he would do well to spend a couple of days with his nose buried deep in Roy’s dissertation… and not just chapter 5. Until that happens, I’d personally avoid trying to make conclusions about how these different approaches may or may not relate, or may or may not compete.
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“Please do not play this game. We cannot stress this enough” 8-)
2006/11/14
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“When I first met Web fundamentalists, I found them irritating, because they would not debate on technical grounds. However, they have ultimately proved to be entertaining.” I aim to please! 8-O
2006/11/13
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“But be careful, RESTifarians can be extremely meticulous when discussing the finer points of REST[…]” 8-) But seriously, that’s the point; REST is extremely tightly defined because it has to be.
2006/11/12
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Yesterday’s “rich” is tomorrow’s “plain”
2006/11/10
Ian Foster writes about OGSA-DAI (Data Access and Integration);
[…] it provides uniform Web Services interfaces to diverse data resources
Neat! That’s so 1990.
How many times do we really need to reinvent the Web, on top of the Web?
All this because of a little confusion over a word. Wow.