Web Things, by Mark Baker

Eric provides some more info on the upcoming W3C “Web of Services for the Enterprise” workshop. I hope to attend.

Wow. What a beautiful, inspiring story about one man’s (Scott Adams) principled design of a (possible) cure to his lost voice.

Message to a certain TAG member and WS-Transfer editor; it’s time to pick sides, my friend.

Go Ladies!

Fibre to Toronto and Montreal, but no Ottawa! Gah!

“Traffic Web Services are also available through the Traffic REST API.” Erm, so there’s an RSS API *and* a REST API? Does .. not .. compute. REST != XML/HTTP. I’d say scrap the “REST API”. Nice work otherwise though. Keep it coming.

“Ashwin walked us through the SOA Architectural Big rules. I made notes, crossing out the errors and replacing them with the relevant REST principles.” A good read.

Heh, he said “MIME Typen”. I hope I’m not offending anyone by finding that cute 8-)

Heh, I love it; SOA as Beta 8-) P.S. Jeff, the VHS version came out 15 years ago, not 5. 5 years ago somebody tried to put video on 8-track 8-)

“Can the Web fulfill industry and business requirements?” Pretty much, yah.

“Also, there is no logout button. I plan to take care of both problems for new schemes in Mozilla.” God bless you, Rob Sayre.

Not just the usual “Cool URI” suggestions…

Why REST kicks SOA ass in one word.

Doh, it should have been on the Web all along!

Hmm, I like the idea of a common substrate for Python Web apps, like Servlets provides for Java. But a *gateway* interface for doing it? Ack. IMO, that layer needs to reflect HTTP to the upper layers properly, as Servlets do.

A funny name for an application protocol which tramples over HTTP by confusing it with a session layer protocol. Doh.

RFC 2616 + errata + reference updates

Thanks, Paul.

“The question is, do they really get it?” I’d love to be wrong, but I suspect not.

It scares me to think that the dweeb I knew at Nortel’s Computing Technology Labs – whose claim to fame at the time was an “agent system built atop HTTP” – could have been a billionaire.

Ay carumba. How hard is it to just say “WS-Transfer is a piece of crap”? I doubt anybody would be offended anymore since, AFAIK, nobody’s implementing it.

So if “2.0” is the new big thing, and it takes Microsoft three versions to get it right, well , erm …. 8-)

Coach fails the “404; bug or feature?” test.

This guy wins my “Best user name” award of the day; omarshariffdontlikeit. Presumably inspired by http://www.urbanaddiction.com/archives/000881.html

The LA Times takes up the cause … 8-)

“An idea is no more or less nameable via URIs and describable via representations than it is nameable by words and describable by sentences”

“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.

Is there any other kind?

Must haves for videophiles

Lisa Dusseault, CommerceNet Fellow