Web Things, by Mark Baker

• HNS – Top 10 Web 2.0 Attack Vectors
  “It is important to protect WSDL file or provide limited access to it. In real case scenarios, it is possible to discover several vulnerabilities using WSDL scanning.” Hmm.
  (tags: wsdl webservices security)
• BlackBerry HELP!
  “The BlackBerry HELP! website is designed for use with the BlackBerry browser” … so? Is it not HTML?
  (tags: blackberry oneweb)

• Ironick: Ideas DO Have URIs
  “An idea is no more or less nameable via URIs and describable via representations than it is nameable by words and describable by sentences”
  (tags: web webarch uri rest)

• Design by Committee: WSO2
  “I’ll be working on ways to make the consumption of Web Services as trivial as possible, and the deployment of Web Services just as simple”
  (tags: wso2 webservices jonathanmarsh microsoft)

• Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.people.getPublicPhotos
  “To map elements to urls, please read the url documentation.” That’s the biggest problem with the Flickr API; the data you get back doesn’t include links.
  (tags: rest flickr webservices)
• ITworld.com – Innovation thru constraint
  Is there any other kind?
  (tags: design constraints)
• MPEG-2 HD Test Patterns
  Must haves for videophiles
  (tags: mpeg2 hdtv)
• [Lisa Dusseault] Introducing myself
  Lisa Dusseault, CommerceNet Fellow
  (tags: iesg ietf commercenet lisadusseault)

• Sound advice: Common REST Questions
  “REST can be seen a documented-oriented subset of Object-Orientation”
  (tags: rest)

• Team Comment on Web Services Transfer (WS-Transfer) Submission
  “The Team also plans to ask the Technical Architecture Group (TAG) to investigate the impact of this technology on the architecture of the Web” Time for some ass kicking!! 8-)
  (tags: wsdeathstar webservices wstransfer w3c tag)
• To be or not to be a RESTafarian – A Matter of Perspective: Loek Bakker’s weblog
  “And with more and more people suffering from WS-* protocol fatigue, that is very very welcome in my opinion.”
  (tags: rest wsdeathstar webservices soa restvsoa restvsoap)

• Rocket Man
  My friend and business partner, John Criswick, will be Canada’s first space tourist.
  (tags: johncriswick space spacetourist ottawa canada)
• Techdirt: .mobi’s Sales Yardstick Once Again Shows It’s All About The Money
  Of course it is.
  (tags: dotmobi mobile mobileweb tld)
• REST (Representational State Transfer) – Enterprise Applications – Network Computing
  What a strange article. Some great insight in places, but also some whoppers. In the end the conclusion is the predictable “SOA for complex apps, REST for simple ones”.
  (tags: rest soap soa webservices restvsoa restvsoap)
• Design by Committee: A trip down memory lane with Flickr Maps
  “But what was unexpected to me is that the act of geotagging, rather than the chore I expected, is rewarding in and of itself”
  (tags: gps flickr flickrmaps geotagging)

That, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call a bad algorithm.

• learning bzr
  “I guess I hadn’t fully internalized the “distributed” in Distributed Version Control System […]”. Perhaps “Decentralized” would be more accurate?
  (tags: decentralized distributed versioncontrol)

• Trends: Vignette eats its own portal food
  Nasty URLs, but they’ll soon discover the problems with them by using them themselves.
  (tags: rest uri url cms vignette)
• mobcode – Respect the web
  “Over the last few years I have seen the light and come to appreciate the wonderful, messy, hacked-together, really useful real world of the web”
  (tags: rest web)