Eve concludes an
interesting post about DITA
with an observation on SOA;
The trend in distributed computing is towards service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Early in the life of this buzzword, some people said it should really be called a document-oriented architecture (except for the unpleasant acronym :-) because it’s really all about document-passing rather than a tightly coupled RPC paradigm, that is, if you want to be successful at reusing the components.
Document passing, yes! Hmm, anybody know of an existing system
anyplace that’s good for passing documents around? 8-) 8-(
Dave Winer asks:
Let’s make the Google API an open standard.
I like the sentiment, but come on, everybody knows the Google
API is, erm, “suboptimal”. 8-) What’s wrong with
OpenSearch?
A bold claim; “placing the source address in the IP packet was an architectural mistake, among other things because it led people to place trust in something inherently untrustworthy”
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… for Firefox,
very cool.
Now, if only I could snarf sessions via GET (and otherwise mutate/manage
them with HTTP), I’d be
all set.
Via Adam.
Some thoughts on Adam Bosworth’s latest
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I used to look forward to SAS flights and their awesome food. Now you have to pay for it (water too!), and it sucks. You also have to pay for Wifi at their lounge at LHR. Sad.
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“the objective is to put Rearden [sic] every desktop” That’s so 1989! I mean, more power to them if they can do it, but it’d likely be a whole lot easier to use the Web.
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Watch out Web services supporters, even the VCs are beginning to get it (“RSS/REST is the new EAI”).
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Neat strategy via Dave. I wonder though, if at some point phishers won’t be able to use spam fighting software to defend against this kind of attack?
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