Clemens Vasters wants WSDL to die. I told you I’d find and expert for you:
So, I hereby declare myself as an expert on that matter 😉 Based on what I’ve seen WSDL do for me and looking at what’s been evolving in the WS-* spec realm lately, I want it to die. I think we its time is up and we no longer need it and I believe it will cause more problems than provide solutions moving forward.
Definately read the rest of his post for more.
Sony Ericsson has unveiled its new T310 mobile phone, which will come with Activision’s Gamehit Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 preloaded and additional games can be downloaded. The phone features a mini-joystick, color display, 32 polyphonic sounds and vibrating force feedback. Some pictures can be found at Three G Mobile.
More info is available at the T310 Page.
WebServices.Org notes that the WSDL 1.2 Working Draft has been published.
I’ll leave the analysis to those more qualified.
I’m giving a talk on XP in Smalltalk at the XP DC Group on March 10.
Hmm, I might just be able to make that.
Doc:
Wouldn’t Donner Party make a perfect reality TV show?
Hey, don’t just vote losers off.
Don’t give them any ideas!
Cool, Georg Bauer has posted a step by step guide to starting a weblog with PyDS, screenshots and all.
Keep up the great work!
Dave:
News.Com reports that Groove has raised more money, $38 million, and has laid off 20 percent of its employees. By my count, they have raised $140 million. How many dollars per user is that? How many dollars per employee? Imagine if Pyra had raised $140 million. (They could have bought UserLand, and still had some cash left over. Hehe.)
I don’t want to jinx anyone by mentioning names, but I hope that everything goes as well as possible for everyone that we know inside Groove.
Slashdot asks if we write backdoors.
If we did, would we tell you?
An even bigger endorsement comes from Microsoft Corp., which will begin shipping a 64-bit Windows server operating system for Opteron ahead of the chip’s launch. And in a break from the company’s traditional hand-in-hand relationship with Intel, Microsoft execs are talking up Opteron. They say the AMD chip helps companies that want to move at their own speed. “With 64 bits, some customers are going to want to ease into it,” says Bob O’Brien, group product manager for Windows Server 2003.”
Read the article at BusinessWeek.
I have a feeling that AMD’s x86-64 line, both Opteron and Athlon64, are going to really going to blast through both the server and desktop markets. By the time they actually hit the streets, we should be able to run a 64 bit version of Windows and probably our choice of 64 bit linux distros.
This is going to be fun.
Sorry about the delay. 320×240 versions of the pictures that I took last night are now up. They will reside at my Washington Interns Gone Bad Page. Here are two of my favorites:
That’s my older sister on the right.
I realized last night that I know very little about the DC blogging scene. I was talking to the director before the showing, and he said, “man, you sure talk about some high end shit.” I guess. Of course, the stuff I talk about is second grade spelling compared to some of the bloggers that I read.
I think everything went well last night. I’m still amazed that they were able to put this together on a sub-$1000 budget. It could really be the next Clerks, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, or Rocky Horror Picture Show. I mean it.
I’m back. I told some people that I would put some pictures from tonight up on my weblog. I think that’s going to have to wait until the morning.
Watch this space in the morning and I’ll also send out emails in the morning. The movie absolutely rocked. All with a $600 digital camera, an old school celeron, and Adobe Premiere/After Effects. Truly great stuff.
Visions was really chill too. Details in the morning, pictures in the morning. Emails in the morning. It’s midnight.
I’m off to see a one night engagement of Washington Interns Gone Bad at Visions Cinema. That’s my older sister with the intern slaying knife. She made mom proud. 🙂
Wonderful B-Movie goodness for all involved. This time hopefully I won’t end up lost in Virginia. I never actually made it to the world premiere, but this time there is one turn in the directions, so I should be okay.
Via Newsforge, The Register:
Microsoft has tendered its resignation from the consortium governing the OpenGL standard, signalling an intention to go it alone with its Direct3D graphics platform.
I have a feeling that the OpenGL and Open Source communities will loose on this, but the article is optimistic:
The sheer number of applications that require the presence of OpenGL suggests that Microsoft will continue to support it, even though its priorities lie elsewhere.
Time will tell.
Slashdot notes that the second installment of the Animatrix is available for consumption.
Personally, I’d be nice to their servers and let their pipes cool down a bit. I’ll probably download and watch the super big version in a few days. I saw teh first one, and I was quite impressed.
Sony Ericsson’s card supports three GSM bands, GPRS Class 10, and 802.11b, and will allow roaming when more of the backend components are built. This card would allow a carrier to bill using EAP SIM, which encapsulates messages over the GSM network to allow Wi-Fi network authentication using the SIM authentication module. I’m unclear whether this will use simple MAC address clearance — your MAC address sent over GSM and then the hot spot unlocking access for that address — or something more sophisticated. If just MAC address unlocking, it’s easy for someone with a sniffer to clone your address. According to IETF presentations a few months ago, all of the EAP-plus-method flavors lack cryptographic binding between network layers, which allows address spoofing, but not necessarily network access.
So when can i get my 802.11a/b/g/etc, Bluetooth, GPRS/CMDA/GSM/everything else card? I’ll take two. This is really cool tech though.
Scott Hanselman brought up an interesting question:
Also, is it a sin to screen-scrape the bible?
And Moses said, “Thou shalt not scrape screens, especially when the Bible is involved.” Everyone looked confused, but decided that it must be good. Moses continued, “If thou needest quotations from the Bible, thou shalt invoke a web service. Thou may use XML-RPC, SOAP, REST, or whatever suits your situation.” The people looked around and smiled, for they knew nothing about web services.
I might be setting myself up for a good smoting. Oh well.
CNet:
Sun’s Jxta software, introduced with great fanfare nearly two years ago, has been downloaded by more than 1 million users, the company said. Sun also noted that there are 12,700 members of Project Jxta, an open-source development organization led by Sun.
[…]
On Tuesday, Sun said it has updated the Jxta specification in what it’s calling Jxta 2.0. The updated software lets developers create a “super peer” on a network that can handle more of the network traffic than less powerful devices.
Sun has also made the Jxta code more modular so that developers can more easily download and use what they want. The first instance of Jxta 2.0, which is available for download, is for Java programmers.
Very cool. I putzed around with JXTA shortly after they announced it. Has it been over two years now? While I was at LinuxWorld Expo, I spoke to a couple of Sun guys that were demoing JXTA apps. One was a shared space app ala Groove, but it ran on any platform supported by a recent version of Java.
Go, JXTA!
Mostly to get a feel for what development with wxWindows is like, I mocked up a three paned aggregator using ActivePython, wxPython, and Mark’s ultra-liberal RSS parser.
Very cool, worth looking into indeed. What if the killer aggregator isn’t three paned? NetNewsWire looks really easy to use, although I’ve never had a chance to use it (8500 with a G4 card doesn’t like OSX). I like my one paned aggregator for reading up over the web, though I keep thinking that there must be a better solution to the problem lurking out there somewhere.