Category: Web Services

Doug Kaye points to an article by Nick Evans highlights 10 hurdles to web services success.

Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead):

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Heads.

Heads.

Heads.

Heads.

Heads.

Here’s my logic.  I figured that if Russell got around to FOAFing himself, it was time for me to do the same.  Here’s my FOAF, I’ll put it in my template over the weekend.  I’ll also add more FOAFers that I read.

IAAM: I am Acronym Man.

A little hackery with Python and rdflib is in order.

LinuxJournal discusses derivative works.  It made my head spin, though getting sick might have something to do with it.

Sam Ruby to Ken Coar:

Welcome to the collective.  Joe created a tasty morsel.  You picked it up and put a copy in your pile, with a rich pheromone trail back to the source.  Now others can do likewise.  This even works with two year old nuggets that are quickly picked  up by others and dropped into their piles.

Good luck, Jim.

Slashdot points to a pretty cool Foosball mod.  It is connected to a computer running Macromedia Director which keeps score on an LCD screen.  This project can only be eclipsed by the Dartboard IP project at Harvard.  It features a much more over-engineered system and projecting information semi-relatime back onto the dartboard.

While searching for the original article (which aired Feb 20, 2002), I also stumbled upon a ‘weblog’ post about spending 16 hours in a Home Depot. I know that I pointed to it in my journal at the time, but it’s really amusing to have two things randomly associated via Google.  The kid who did the Home Depot stay is a teenager, so expect a potty mouth.  You have been warned.

6:35AM: I like the light aisle. Have a funny feeling that I will be spending a lot of time here.
7:10AM: There are many birds inside the store. This is getting very scary.

Here’s my quick wrapup of stuff that came down the RSS today (and previously), which I spent mostly offline:

• Jon Udell wrote another bookmarklet the other day, I forgot to mention it.
• Mark Pilgrim wrote a piece about semantic tag soup, which I also forgot to mention.
• James Robertson points to zapthink‘s pros and cons of XML.
• Diego released Spaces Alpha-1.6.
• Matt Raible is also having bandwidth issues.  Mine should be solved in a day or so.
• Matt also points to some Apache 2 + Tomcat references.
• Dave Winer wants to go back to school… to teach.  Good luck, Dave.
• According to Juha, it’s effing cold in Finland.
• Sean & Scott point to a regex repository which holds little gems like validating 1/1/0001 to 12/31/9999.
• Freshmeat Notables:
• NanoFTPd 0.0.1: FTP daemon written in PHP.
• JGAP 0.3: Java genetic algorithm library.
• Ed Cone posts a conversation with Jerry Garcia.

Python 2.3a1 is out.  I’ll have to poke around later, but I like the highlights so far, including a Log4J-based logger.

Happy New Year all.

Here’s a list of releases culled from today’s freshmeat page:

• nntp//rss: Read RSS feeds from an NNTP newsreader.
• PhpWiki: Wiki to tha izzo, Wiki to tha izzay.
• BlinkenStuff: Tools for developing for Blinkenlights
• Blinkensim, Blinkenlib, Blinkentools, etc are updated and available here.

In a post to Advogato, the Linux BBC people are asking for help testing the 2.0 release.  It looks like they’ve added quite a few features for the new version.  Grab a copy from the website and boot a friend’s computer with it.  That always freaks people out.

From the Creative Commons Weblog:

The Future of Music Coalition will host their third-annual Policy Summit January 4 through 7 in Washington D.C. The FMC3 summit will bring policymakers, academics, lawyers, activists — and, of course, a number of premier musicians — together for a discussion of artists’ rights and technology’s influence on the music industry.

I don’t think I’m going to be able to make the event.  Yes, it’s in town, but I’m going to be taking a day off for Linux World in January, and we’re understaffed at work.  Everyone else is sick.  Much fun.

I’m getting (really) close to my disk quota on my web provider, so I’m going to keep things succinct until I can upgrade the account:

• OpenBSD Journal covers PPTP.
• Slashdot drools over an AMD Opteron (x86-64) article.
• Bill Kearney wonders out loud about RSS metadata.
• Aaron Swartz released secroll, which allows two parties to securely roll an n-sided die.
• Another reason to get a Zarus: Zarus Python.
• Wei-Ming Lee covers ASP .NET Caching for O’Reilly.
• Peter Drayton does a mic check.  It’s good to know that he’s still alive.

Simon Fell:

Do Groove Web Services really need a local web server? Wouldn’t it be better to do SOAP over standard input and standard output when you just need to integrate on a single machine? [matt.griffith] Well, I’ve yet to see a SOAP toolkit that doesn’t ship with a HTTP transport, whilst SOAP::Lite it the only one i know that ships with stdin/out support. In addition certain platforms (*cough*cough* asp.net), are overly tied to HTTP.

Localhost web services, here we come!

*Sigh*

I remember reading Phrack when I was in middle school.

[via the dot]

Australian IT:

NEW research contradicts recent technology vendor claims that web services are “real” and being deployed by as many as half of Australia’s large companies.

The real number stands at less than 50, according to research by analyst S2 Intelligence.

Deploy some more!  [via Doug Kaye]

Simon Fell:

Just posted v0.7.2 which adds the option to fix up linefeeds from non-windows platforms so that they display properly. Thanks to Eric Promislow for the suggestion.

TCPTrace: for when you’re banging your head against the wall debugging web services.