Matt Croydon::Postneo

Category: Web Services

  • David Davies picture gallery: I’ll take a look at it later on my home machine.  His weblog is definately a good [geeky] read.

  • AT&T Broadband goes tiered pricing, as CNet reports.  I hope Comcast doesn’t do that to me…

  • YALW (Yet Another Linux Website): Linuxcompatible.org.  It looks like a solid Linux-oriented news site with a focus on Linux compatibility.  Their newsfeed (backend.php since it is a *nuke site) seems to be broken though, I can’t subscribe to it in Radio.

  • LWN staying open for now: Donations and ads have been pouring in, but they may have to switch to subscriptions for some of their content.  Good luck!

  • Responsible hacking okay: “A White House adviser is urging computer professionals and hackers to do more to help uncover software glitches.”

  • New IBM plant produces circuits smaller than .1 micron.  This is a nice incremental enhancement, since most chips run at .13, .18, or .25 microns.

  • MacCentral reviews the 700 MHz ibook.

  • CLAgg

    I had an idea yesterday evening about a potentially cool program/script, it’ll just be hard finding the time and energy to implement it. 

    CLAgg: Cumulative Link Aggregator.  Scan and RSS feed.  Slurp out the links, possibly downloading a local cache of the links (ala google cache).  Just a thought.

  • Dreamcast as hacking device: The Register reports.

  • O’Reilly’s Mac Dev Center has a good roundup of open-source OSX tools.

  • The Ellen Feiss Store is open for business.  I think I need a frisbee.

  • Open Source: A Case for e-Government: A conference that will take place October 17-18 in Washington, DC, near where I live.  I will hopefully blog the event, assuming I can make it there.  Topics to be covered include:

  • the presentation of best practices
  • raising awareness
  • sharing of experiences among policy makers, donors, users/consumers, universities, and industry specialists in Open Source, e-Government and related fields.

  • It’s just about time for bed.  I finished the SOAP chapter of Web Services Essentials a few minutes ago, and I can’t wait to learn more.  The WSDL chapter comes next.

  • Do you visit the weblogs you read? Mac Net Journal asks the question, and my comments are here.

  • Ford does something intelligent: They will be discontinuing the Excursion soccer assault vehicle in 2004.

  • No Staroffice for OSX?  It seems so.  Sun is denying any involvement in an OSX port:

    “There is a port of OpenOffice in development that is coming along quite well, but there is no development of a StarOffice port at this time,” Nancy Lee, group product marketing manager, office productivity at Sun, told MacCentral.

  • Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios: A working draft by the w3c illustrating how web services can make life easier.

  • Amtrak derailment update: These pictures were taken locally with an APS camera.

  • The Web Services DevCon is mighty tempting.  Now all I have to do is justify it in my mind and my bank account.

  • Too Easy to Collaborate?  Michael Helfrich recalls some past experience with collabaration:

    The IT guy concluded that, “You guys are making it way too easy to share with others.” And then he dropped the bomb: “Listen, our business users are stupid, we have to help protect them from themselves.” Yea, and if you allow them to share and work securely with others this company JUST might keep up with the demands of the street, because human interaction is the rocket fuel that propels innovation.