Web Things, by Mark Baker

• The United States is Insolvent
  Damn, that can’t be good.
  (tags: usa)

• XML.com: A Theory of Compatible Versions
  A nice one from Dave. Data is clearly his forte 8-) It would be interesting to see him apply this theory to common practice with XML Schema, and RDF/XML vs. vanilla XML.
  (tags: xml)

• Adding Simplicity – An Engineering Mantra: Coupling in a RESTful Way
  It’s great to see discussions like this progress productively without me needing to get involved. It’s like a weight has been lifted from my back. Thanks, Pete, and others who are now stepping forward.
  (tags: rest)
• From Fourthought to Kadomo ✏Copia
  Congrats to Uche on the new gig … and the suit 8-)
  (tags: ucheogbuji semanticweb kadomogroup)

Turns out I’ve been tagged … twice (or maybe more, who knows?).

In case they don’t cancel each other out, I suppose I should spill the beans;

• Amsterdam is my favourite place on earth
• I once out-smarted a domain name squatter who had somehow hijacked a domain used by my company and was holding it ransom; saved myself $2000.
• I’m a sommelier. My favourite wines are dessert wines, fortified wines, Riesling, GSM blends, Viura, Tempranillo, Pinot Noir, and Nebbiolo.
• I’ve been developing distributed software since 1983 when I wrote a two player “space war” game for the Commodore Pets at high school using the parallel port based network for the shared floppy drives
• My wife and I were born on the same day; August 15, 1968

I’ll refrain from tagging others because AFAICT the meme has petered out; an advantage of being days behind in news and email, I suppose.

• Google SOAP Search API
  “As of December 5, 2006, we are no longer actively supporting the SOAP Search API” Buh-bye!
  (tags: rest soap restvsoap restvsoa webservices)
• Messages not Models: gbiv.com
  Hugh finally gets “roy.gbiv.com” 8-)
  (tags: royfielding roygbiv)
• The Problem With DTD and XML Schema Validation
  A kindred spirit. Subscribed!
  (tags: xml validation)

• Data on the Web
  Motivating stories for the Semantic Web
  (tags: semanticweb rdf web rest)
• Making it stick.: Wow! I mean WOW!
  “Prediction for 2007: the rush away from WS-* will look like the recent US election aftermath of Republicans running from Bush’s Iraq War” 8-)
  (tags: funny webservices restvsoap restvsoa)
• the ryan king » Bye, bye, grad school
  Congrats, Ryan!
  (tags: ryanking technorati)
• Is there hope for SOAP?
  Nope! 8-)
  (tags: soap rest restvsoap restvsoa)
• Stefan Tilkov: REST – The Better Web Services Model – Parleys – The Belgian Java User Group
  I don’t remember seeing this before. Nicely done, Stefan. Comprehensive.
  (tags: rest)

… is the title of a new blog post by yours truly on my consultancy’s weblog.

• O’Reilly Radar > Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again
  I’ll take the expanded version, thanks
  (tags: web20)
• Adding Simplicity – An Engineering Mantra: Call to Action, The Case for HTTP Headers with SOAP
  “SOAP’s goal of being agnostic to transports is fine. But being agnostic does not mean it has to be impossible to leverage the underlying transport’s efficiencies.” I could have used the backup circa 2000/2001!
  (tags: rest soap http)

• Jon Udell: A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft
  Big news! Congrats to Jon and Microsoft.
  (tags: jonudell microsoft infoworld)
• SAML and URNs
  “Anything that can have a URI can be a resource, surely 404 deserves to have URI.” Sounds like a plan! RFC 2774 gave extension headers URIs. PEP gaves us URIs for new methods. Content types already have URIs (at iana.org). Why not response codes?
  (tags: web http rest uri)

• Stu says stuff: RESTful security
  “It looks more & more that we are going to have two incompatible world-views and protocol pillars.”. Not really; Darwin usually picks sides 8-)
  (tags: rest webservices)
• Web Services: yesterday’s hype or tomorrow’s promise?
  An interesting read about the history of “REST vs. SOAP”. Quotes some Roy’s more heated statements too 8-)
  (tags: rest webservices)
• Jon Udell: Hunting the elusive search strategy
  Fascinating observations by Jon. Those habits should go up on a Wiki.
  (tags: search)
• REST for toddlers [dive into mark]
  “415 – Don’t eat your boogers”. Good advice from Mark.
  (tags: rest funny)