Wednesday, September 29 2004
Is there a Web Services Architecture?
As I'm sure many others were, I was intrigued to see that Microsoft published an Introduction to the Web Services Architecture the other week. Unlike their usual collaborative selves, they did this without any partners, co-authors or even acknowledgement to the outside world; it reads as if Web services is a beast that was bred purely within the gates of Redmond.
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Monday, September 27 2004
The ‘Web’ in Web Services
I was very interested to see the reaction that people had to WS-Transfer over the last few days. While the SOAP Resource Representation Header had opprobrium heaped upon it (""), Transfer passed by with nothing more than a few nodding heads and people saying "aha." In my view, WS-Transfer deserves a lot more of that criticism; if anything, the Resource Representation Header tries to supplant MIME, not HTTP.
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Sunday, September 19 2004
Back
If you're wondering where the promised travel stories from Melbourne got to, you'll have to wait a bit longer. Right after I got there, Anitra was bit by a spider (a supreme irony, really) and had to go to the emergency room, because all sorts of unpleasant things were happening.
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Wednesday, September 8 2004
And now for something completely different: Roadblog!
I'm typing this from the Red Carpet Club in San Francisco International Airport, about to disembark on a snap vacation to Australia. By 'snap vacation,' I mean that I didn't have a gleam in my eye about this trip two weeks ago, but thanks to generous fares from United ($650 round trip!)... Anitra and Charlie are staying behind for this one; she couldn't get away from work, and will be going to Australia to hear some wedding bells (shhh, big secret) in January.
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HTTP Header Registries
An update to the Internet-Draft that provides initial values for the HTTP Header Message Registries is now available.
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Monday, September 6 2004
Saving the Village with Wal-Mart
In BusinessWeek, Chris Kenton brings us a thoughtful piece about the Faustian bargains that localities are making in the name of progress; [A]t the end of the day, we...
Thursday, September 2 2004
Innocent Fraud
...I have learned that to be right and useful, one must accept a continuing divergence between approved belief -- what I have elsewhere called conventional wisdom -- and the reality. And in the end, not surprisingly, it is the reality that counts.-- John Kenneth Galbraith, "The Economics of Innocent Fraud"I'm just starting this book, but it's pretty thought-provoking so far.