“Above all, it is precisely the elastic quality of a term like “Web services” that will guarantee its secure place in the i-Technology lexicon for decades to come.” s/elasticity/ambiguity
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“This is an entity that does not want to be eaten alive, dead or otherwise.”. Wow.
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Yeah!
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After at least one aborted attempt, Radovan and I were finally able to get together for drinks. We met up at one of my old hang outs, Gordon Biersch in Palo Alto. He even brought along a couple of other Systinet management types; Wendell Lansford and Roman Stanek. I think Roman set a record for most times asking the waitress for a few more minutes with the menu (4?); a sure sign that we were all fully engaged in conversation and beer.

Thanks for the drinks, guys!

I’ll be doing sporadic booth duty at the Justsystem booth this week at Oracle OpenWorld. If you’re there, please stop by and say hi! Booth #1042.

If you’re not there, and I know you, drop me a line and I might be able to get you a pass (so I’m told).

Slick! RSS pre-fetching. In-place editing. In-place layout. My only critique; an URL for my page would be nice.
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Here’s a question for the MEST-heads; how does MEST differ from the architectural style that would describe the architecture of Internet based email?

Four trips to the Bay Area so far this year, and Air Canada bungles two of them, including the one currently underway.

I’ll now be arriving late this afternoon, missing the SDForum thing and Pat Helland’s talk. Yay.

Another convert, thanks to John Cowan’s Extreme presentation
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Ben Carlyle wonders;

I’ve been very serouslying[sic] considering dropping the only new http verb I’ve introduced for HttpSubscription: SUBSCRIBE. […] I’m coming around to the idea of saying this is simply a GET.

Very wise, young Padawan. As Roy says;

In the REST style, consuming components usually pull representations. Although this is less efficient when viewed as a single client wishing to monitor a single resource, the scale of the Web makes an unregulated push model infeasible.