2006/09/26
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“Case in point: The Web services alphabet soup of WSDL, SOAP and UDDI. These standards enable unprecedented interoperability among critical business applications.” *groan*
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2006/09/25
I updated my list of visited countries, which finally shows some red on the African continent, in the Kingdom of Morocco.
The meeting was in Rabat, the capital city, and it was pleasant enough. A bit like Ottawa I suppose, in that it looked and felt like a “lite” version of a larger, neighbouring city (Casablanca/Toronto). It was surprisingly liberal for a muslim country … or at least what I imagined a muslim country to be, never having been to one. I wasn’t expecting tight fitting pants to outnumber burkas by a couple of orders of magnitude. 8-)
And what trip to Africa would be complete without gastrointestinal problems? Alas, not this one 8-(
I’ll be uploading images to my Flickr photostream soon.
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Via eekim, a nice “Wiki API”. None of the Flickr-inspired method-in-the-URI ugliness.
2006/09/24
When I first started using GMail 2 1/2 years ago, I used to get perhaps 1 or 2% spam. When I checked my email this morning, it was 85% spam (104 of 122).
Google hasn’t been keeping up with the spammers, so I should probably consider reinstituting my own de-spamming filter. What’s the state of the art nowadays?
2006/09/22
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*sigh* Wiki’s already have the equivalent of “GetPage” – it’s called HTTP GET on the page’s URI.
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“If you plan on using V4 on or after October 1, you have two options”. More Google evolution problems. Why are they burdening their many users with implementation details?
2006/09/20
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Congrats to Luis. Totally deserving, IMO.
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“But the question involves something of a category mistake”. Exactly (regarding RDF vs. XML).
2006/09/15
When it rains, it pours as they say. My ISP and Bell don’t see eye to eye about a few things, one of them being the process the former has to follow to satisfy the latter when debugging my DSL line. Luckily, they were collectively able to determine that my DSL modem had met its maker, so I picked up a new one this afternoon, and voila, back online.
Prepare yourselves for a week’s worth of del.icio.us links tonight.
I’m also, give or take, back to my usual routine after the death of my father. Expect more writing from me in the coming months. In the meantime, I’m thrilled to be participating at the first ever W3C WG meeting on the African continent next week; the WebAPI WG is meeting at the W3C offices in Rabat, Morocco.
2006/09/08
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Good discussion. Remind me to jot down my thoughts one day…
2006/09/07
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Tim doesn’t deserve this. His vision for the Web was far richer than what was deployed from 1991 to 2004. However, the W3C should be taking far more flack for poo-pooing Javascript’s importance.
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Only 7% of SOA projects exceeded expectations. Main reason? “introduced more complexity into IT system”. No shit, Sherlock!
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“Laugh and the world laughs with you, get killed by a benign piece of seafood and the world laughs too apparently” 8-)
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“The fact is the most successful web services – since the beginnings of the web – were social software applications”
2006/09/03
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Pipelining! For XML! With new URI schemes! Sigh. CRISP continues to reinvent the (Web) wheel.