Web Things, by Mark Baker

• JSR 311: Java (TM) API for RESTful Web Services
  Sounds like fun!
  (tags: rest java jcp)
• Fundamentals of Web Site Acceleration :: Port80 Software
  ” Send as little data as possible – Send it as infrequently as possible”
  (tags: web performance http)
• WS-* vs REST is not the question (Eric Newcomer’s Weblog)
  “so any application can be accessed the same way, regardless of its implementation technology. Can’t it?” Yes sirree!
  (tags: rest soa webservices soap restvsoa restvsoap)

• Paul Downey » Blog Archive » A Question of Politeness
  An awesome Pete Lacey comment. I wonder how much WS-boilerplate he’s actually responsible for 8-)
  (tags: webservices rest bpel)

• Knowing.NET – Service-Oriented Systems That Actually Do Something
  “I say that, six or seven years into the Web Services era, the onus is on the WS-* advocates to prove the need, because the advocates of KISS approaches have, I think, amply demonstrated the viability of their approaches.”
  (tags: rest soa webservices restvsoa restvsoap)
• IBM Submission for the W3C Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing
  “Clearly, each of these uses would benefit from the ability to deploy a common solution that can satisfy both the machine-to-machine and human interaction modes of access to a service through a single URI”. Will it require the uniform interface?
  (tags: ibm webservices rest soap soa restvsoa restvsoap)
• Amazon Mechanical Turk: Thank You for Helping Search for Jim Gray
  “Your work has contributed to one of the largest volunteer search efforts ever” I can’t help but smile to think that Jim, wherever he is, would get a kick out of how this was done. Kudos to Werner and everyone who contributed.
  (tags: jimgray amazon wernervogels)
• Pipes: Rewire the web
  Cool. This seems (if it were working and I could try it out) to essentially be what my old company, Planetfred, was building 5 years ago. We didn’t have the pretty UI though (nor any UI in fact 8-).
  (tags: rest web yahoo yahoopipes)
• Will we reconcile REST, WS-* and SOA? « Noelios Consulting – Supporting your Web ideas
  “This tension, often described as a battle, was in fact fruitful to both sides”. Indeed. Still one more thing for the WS-* folks to understand though; that REST is an *improvement* on SOA.
  (tags: rest webservices soap soa restvsoa restvsoap)

• Paul Prescod, the RESTafarian Most High
  Nice interview.
  (tags: paulprescod rest soa webservices soap restvsoa restvsoap xmlrpc)

• The Zinquisition: More Riedel nonsense
  “After two years of research, comparative tastings, and evaluation of prototype glasses, Oregon winemakers and Georg Riedel have arrived at a new shape of wine glass designed especially for Oregon Pinot noir.” Insane!
  (tags: riedel wine pinotnoir)

• Enterprise REST
  “I, of course, hope to be in the 3rd group – watching from the sidelines from my REST system and shaking my head at the mass delusions this industry is capable of.”
  (tags: rest webservices soa restvsoa restvsoap)

I thought I’d do what little I could to help find Jim Gray by looking through some satellite pictures for Tenacious, Jim’s boat.

Dang, that’s not easy. Here’s a typical image that I was presented;

I did a dozen or so of them, and only a couple were a clear “No” (no ship or ship-debris-like object present). Two or three more were so noisy as to make the job impossible, so I “returned” them. The others involved more time than you’d expect, and a lot of squinting.

A technique that I found useful was to tilt my laptop display backwards which seemed to perform a low-pass filter of sorts, reducing noise and making it easier to identify objects. Maybe that would work for you too. My display is TFT.

It’s a tough job, but I’m happy to help.

Update; the images are a lot clearer today. I’m zipping through them.

• Sun: WS-Addressing the first way to specify SOAP endpoints.
  “Putting aside the fact that URLs have done this since before XMLRPC existed” Before XML existed even.
  (tags: rest web uri webservices soap)

• Oren Sreebny’s Weblog: SOA Workshop with the Burton Group’s Pete Lacey
  See Pete, some of them can hear you. 8-)
  (tags: rest soa webservices petelacey restvsoa restvsoap)
• Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects
  Become an Enterprisey Architect today!
  (tags: enterprisey opengroup itac togaf aogea)
• Mungowit’s End: URLS gone Wild!
  I’d heard of some of these before, but I can’t remember when I last laughed this hard. speedofart.com!!
  (tags: urls funny)

• LinkedIn: Answers: Home
  Grr, no RSS/Atom feed?!?!
  (tags: linkedin rss atom)
• Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Three orders of magnitude
  “At some point in the past rolling out an application to 300,000 people was the pinnacle of engineering excellence. Today it means you passed your second round of funding and can move out of your parents garage.” Nice.
  (tags: internetscale webscale scale webservices web rest)
• Ironick: Greg the Architect – SOA This. SOA That.
  ROTFL!
  (tags: soa funny)
• ongoing · XML 2.0?
  Dang, Mark Pilgrim makes exactly the point I was going to make.
  (tags: postelslaw errorhandling xml)
• IEBlog : Working Together for a Better Web
  Way to go Molly!
  (tags: molly ie microsoft)
• LoST: A Location-to-Service Translation Protocol
  “LoST needs an underlying protocol transport mechanisms to carry requests and responses”. Another misuse of HTTP when the proper use appears a superior solution. *sigh*
  (tags: rest http web ietf ecrit lost)