mnot’s Web log

Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Thursday, May 25 2006

Web Services are Dead, Long Live Web Services

When I joined Yahoo, one of the biggest adjustments I had to make was to their use of “Web Services”. There, that phrase means any kind of machine-to-machine communication...

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Tuesday, May 16 2006

Caching Web 2.0

I just finished my XTech presentation, “Web 2.0 on Speed”. here are the slides [pdf]; I’m going to try to s5 them soon. There isn’t much new in this...

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Thursday, May 11 2006

The State of Browser Caching

Updated 2006-06-03 One of the big problems that Web developers have with HTTP caching is that they don’t know how the caches behave; while the specs say one thing, the...

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Yaron Uncloaks!

Yaron publicly says what he’s doing at Microsoft (scroll down); I hear that HTTP stuff is pretty cool. If anyone cares you can peruse a bunch of blog entries...

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Wednesday, May 10 2006

Vendor-pires

Anne-Thomas Manes extolls the virtues of WS-*; The single, most important feature that inspires my enthusiasm about WS-* is that it has universal support from all the major vendors....

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