I’m making available a near final draft of the Busy Developers Guide to WSDL, Part III: a.k.a. document literal. I may do some more tweaks and respond to suggestions and bug reports.
I’ll have to read it when I get off of work. Somewhere in here there is a joke about mustUnderstand, but I’m not sure where it is.
Phil Windley muses on Leve 5 routing for web services:
Last night I couldn’t sleep, so I started to put together some thoughts I’d been having lately regarding web services and level 5 routing. Some might want to quibble and call it level 4, but since the transport for SOAP is HTTP (a level four protocol), I’ll call it level 5. The idea is pretty simple: the advent of standards for application integration has brought us to the point where applications can be put together by scripting calls to existing services.
The Washington Post also covers the demolition Sunday of the Capital Centre/US Airways Arena:
For many who lined up before dawn, a safe distance from 355 pounds of dynamite, the point was not just to see the shell of the old US Airways Arena go bang and disappear in a cloud of dust.
The hours and then minutes that led up to yesterday morning’s implosion became a vigil for their youth, a farewell to times spent inside the shrine they still call the Cap Centre.
Yep. I still called it the Cap Centre. Saw some sports stuff and a few concerts there when I was younger. One of my coworkers was going to photograph and videotape the implosion, I’ll do my best to get any of that online a little later. For now, here’s a shot from our local NBC Station:
The Washington Post writes about Luna Innovations:
Part technology company, part incubator and part investment firm, Murphy’s Luna Innovations Inc., which he founded in 1990, in the past two years has built five companies from the ideas at Virginia Tech, Lucent Technologies and from its own labs. All the companies use “Luna” in their name, a moth with finely tuned senses that Murphy saw on the Discovery Channel.
Here are a few projects that Kent Murphy and Luna are working on:
One Luna lab is designing sensors that track how proteins interact to better understand how drugs work. The idea came from Lucent.
Through a couple of doors is an electronics lab, where technicians are working on new kinds of sensors with technology developed in-house.
Around another corner is a lab where scientists turn super-heated graphite into carbon balls — called buckyballs — for use in medical imaging. That technology was pulled out of Virginia Tech.
My gut feeling is that you should keep an eye on this company. Oh yeah, here’s a quick list of Luna spinoffs:
T-Mobile has withdrawn Nokia’s 7210 from sale just days after beginning sales of the much anticipated picture-messaging handset.
Anybody want to buy the idle power of gulker.com’s massive array of 6 Macs, 5 Linux boxes and an iPod?
No, I don’t, though will it be common practice to rent your spare CPU cycles in the future? Makes me think…
That’s where my analogy came in. In traditional IT projects, I said, ROI has been as elusive as high-school sex: “The question was always, are you going to get any?” But with web services, ROI is more like married sex: “You know you’re getting it, but you’re always wondering, what can we do to make it better?”
Jeremy Zawodny’s DSL is going away. I hope he can find a replacement ISP soon. Good luck.
Two articles that I need to read by Peter Merholz. The first is on collaboration:
Anyone who has worked with others knows that the best collaborative tools are the simplest. It is likely that, in the last 10 years, the most creative thinking and innovation has emerged from sessions gathered ’round whiteboards.
The other is on user interface:
The Supernova conference was kicked off by Howard Rheingold, who put forth a thesis based on thoughts from Smart Mobs. It was a great way to start the show, rooting it in humanisitic and sociological notions, and not simply focusing on the tech.
One thing that came up that I take issue with is this notion that there is a fundamental difference between “the kids”‘ abilities with new technologies, and their elders. This is a fairly hoary canard. Older folks don’t get new technologies, don’t understand how to use them, but that younger folks adopt it as if it were breathing. This is often put out there as a way to excuse old people from bothering to understand, and, I think, from excusing product designers from bothering to make products for people over 25.
Sam Gentile is grooving with web services:
Got the beta of Groove 2.5 and Groove Web Services up and going. It’s quite amazing to me, in the matter of minutes, to pull all the data out of my Groove space with a simple C# program.
That’s what I really like about C#: it’s so easy to just open up a new project and use a web service. It takes just a few minutes.
Whoa. This weblog has generated over a gigabyte of traffic so far this week, and it’s not over yet. I’ll try to post some stats tomorrow, and if this keeps up I’ll probably have to start paying more a month for web hosting. Dave’s link and my javablog channel have both contributed to the rise in traffic.
Welcome to my weblog if you’ve just started reading.
CNet:
The shipping giant, which calls itself “Brown” in its advertising, is beginning to deploy a tracking system that combines the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless technologies. Bluetooth can carry data over several feet, while Wi-Fi has a 300-foot range, making it a popular method of extending Net access in many homes and business.
UPS representative Ginnie Myhr said 55,000 package handlers eventually will get Bluetooth bar code readers that are worn on the finger like a ring. The ring scans a package label and sends the information to a Wi-Fi radio attached to a handler’s belt. The radio then sends the information to a central computer.
IBM THIS WEEK announced the latest version of its Web Services Toolkit (WSTK), which features a proposed mechanism for managing the services.
The Web Services Toolkit page is also available.
Everything from this day forth (inclusive) will be categorized. I don’t have the energy to backcategorize older posts. For those of you wishing to tune in to specific parts of my weblog, there are now categories off to your right. I’m a big picture kinda guy, so I would personally listen to everything, but if you want to just tune into web services, .NET, or Java, feel free. Of course RSS feeds are also available for your slurping enjoyment.
I really don’t know why I didn’t categorize earlier.
Services are now a fixture of computing, whether it’s local to a single system or on a network. Two parallel innovations, component models and the Internet, have propelled software designers to break up applications into clients and servers — sometimes multiple, cascading servers.
I’ve finally taken the plunge and enabled catagories in Radio. I’ll be notifying javablogs soon!
Phil Windley (Public Service Tip No. 2):
As part of my series of tips for those entering public service, I offer a chapter on the Jabberwocky of state government: the legislature. One of the hardest things to figure out for a private sector mind in public sector life is the legislature. This was, probably, my largest failing and one thing I’d put a lot more effort into if I were to do it again.
CNet:
Satellite-television company Hughes Electronics on Friday will “clarify” its future plans for residential satellite-based Web services, following a published report indicating those services might be discontinued, a company representative said.
Chris Sells points to an Intel article titled “Image Analysis and Web Services.” Here’s the obligatory pointer to “When Web Services Go Bad” by Steve Loughran. It deals with image processing in a *nix and MS XML-RPC environment.
Kenneth Hunt points to LLNL ASCI Training. I’ve skimmed the site a bit. The tutorials section looks like lots of really good free info. I’ll be visitng that after work today. If I lived anywhere near there, I would go to their Scientific Python workshops. That just sounds wicked cool.