Web Things, by Mark Baker

XBL – if you don’t know what it is, you will soon … well, maybe next year.
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I missed this one from Micah a few months back. Super. Another term is “principled design”.
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Hire Joe!
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“It seems inevitable that Web services will enact a history quite similar to CORBA’s.” Duh! Unfortunately it misses the most important technical reason (and if you have to ask, you don’t read my blog closely enough 8-)
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“Build software that bends”. I love the XML Schema advice; that’s often overlooked. In case you needed another reason to avoid the anti-pattern that is WSDL …
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Awards! I love awards.
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I can’t find any sample code, but this sounds great. I’m all teary-eyed 8-)
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Phil Wainewright gushes over Employease Extend;

This tells you that Employease has thought very carefully about granularity, and has exposed services based on whether they deliver complete results that will be useful to customers.

I don’t consider having separate services for “AddFoo” and “ChangeFoo” (where Foo = “CorpGroup”, “JobTitle”, etc..) to be a best practice. What about encapsulation? These two services will necessarily be tied at the hip because they use the same data, so why not make a single service out of them?

BTW, did you notice how their documentation uses links? This might help explain their inability to appreciate how the Web can be used to improve their SOA;

<a href="" onClick="window.open('documentation/AddCorpGroup.html', [...]</a>

Sigh.

Damn, that’s too bad. No white knight? That seems hard to believe.
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Looks weird, doesn’t it?

According to Tony Byrne, that’s what at least one publication will be using from now on;

Forthwith, the following terms, “web, website, webcast, internet, intranet, the net” shall merit only lower-case treatment.

Now, english class was never a favourite (ahem), but I think I know what a Proper noun/name is, and by that measure, of that list above, “Web” and “Internet” are most definitely proper names and therefore warrant capitalization.

And why pick on the Web when there’s far better demotion fodder around?