Web Things, by Mark Baker

“I spend most of my time trying to convince SOA architects that XML formats should be filled primarily with URIs!”

Ban photoshop!

Those smileys have it just about right, I’d say.

“but in 1992, it was much more common to follow a gopher:// link”. Erm … Funny how linking is so pervasive that history is getting rewritten 8-)

Don’t worry, it’s just as confusing for us Canadians. The upside is that it’s still a day off, even if you don’t know why.

“I am amused, especially as I suspect that some other aspects of the test would require me to like WSDL” 8-)

Brilliant!

“So next time someone waves off scalability issues by sprinkling magic ‘optimistic concurrency’ pixie dust make sure to ask them who is going to write the merge code”

The Fields medal winner will be announced later this month. P.S. who knew J.C. Fields was a Canadian? Not I.

“What bothers me about the Google project is that I’ve heard they are scanning two copies of the book. What I want to know is: what are they doing with the second copy?!” OMFG.

“There’s some new metaphor we’re groping for. I’ll know it when I see it”

Good post about of some of the practical issues of using caching, conneg, etc..

“the ‘To’ is sent as the HTTP Request-Uri” Yeah! “and the ‘Action’ is sent out as […] SOAP-Action” Boo! Action should be the HTTP Request-method (via Nick Gall)

Voice recognition problems in a public demo from Microsoft. ROTFL!

“I don’t understand why our expectations for music technology are so low that we accept MP3 as an audio equivalent for HTML”

Idempotence as a weapon. Ouch.

“Globally distributed SOA seems to be looming out of the mist, and it is a different shape to what was envisioned a few years back.” Envisioned by some perhaps 8-)

“Me, I blame WSDL and XSD”. Amen. Both of those encourage practices which are actively harmful to integration; WSDL encourages services to have different interfaces, and XSD limits extensibility (unless you really know what you’re doing).

“You can do a lot with collections + CRUD” 8-)