Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!

Sat, 31 Mar 2001 15:47:11 GMT

Heads up: A key difference between SOAP and XML-RPC.

Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:31:39 GMT

Charles Cook: XML-RPC for .NET 0.1.3. [Scripting News]

Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:29:41 GMT

Dave and Jake: A Busy Developer's Guide to SOAP 1.1. Draft. [Scripting News]

Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:14:19 GMT

Pat Thoyts: SOAP for Tcl. [Scripting News]

Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:42:59 GMT

Here's the most interesting Radio Blog I've seen so far, but understand that I've been looking for something like this ever since we released the beta of the decentralized blogging tool in Radio. It's the zig to Blogger's centralized zag. (Or the blig to its blog?) As Blogger has grown, it's climbing a scaling wall, and the performance has suffered, much as the performance of Weblogs.Com has suffered as it has grown. [Scripting News]

Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:17:15 GMT

Leander Kahney reviews Mac OS X. [Scripting News]

Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:38:50 GMT

There are now 41 SOAP 1.1 implementations. [Scripting News]

Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:35:45 GMT

Marty Heyman warns: "Radio is an Insidious Plot for global domination by Userland Software!" [Scripting News]

Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:12:40 GMT

Tony Hong has a list of SOAP 1.1 interop issues.

Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:49:08 GMT

Derrick Story likes the Entourage emailer for the Mac. [Scripting News]

Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:46:27 GMT

I posted a plan for the Interopathon process today on the SoapWare site. If you know a SOAP 1.1 implementor please make sure he or she sees this page. It's very important that this process be inclusive, if it's to make a difference. [Scripting News]

Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:29:33 GMT

Jabber.Org: Integration of full support for XML-RPC and SOAP. [Scripting News]

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:02:39 GMT

What is Pepper? [Scripting News]

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:16:23 GMT

Oliver Wrede: Golden Rules for Newbies to Frontier and Radio UserLand.

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:15:26 GMT

For tomorrow's press release. "Radio UserLand is at the sweet spot of the next generation of the Internet, bringing together XML-based web services, a decentralized approach to computing and the power of software," said Charles Fitzgerald, director of business strategy in the platform strategy group at Microsoft. "This next generation of the Internet promises more control for end users and renewed opportunity for developers."

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:14:09 GMT

Simon Fell started a WSDL issues site.

Wed, 14 Mar 2001 03:02:07 GMT

It's not hard to find programmers to work on Radio, though. This evening I added a feature for our friends the bloggers, making sure that it's easy for people to credit their sources. This should emit a loud sigh of relief in Radio UserLand and perhaps elsewhere. The Supremes are singing You can't hurry love, no you'll just have to wait. We're figuring this stuff out in real-time, as always. [Scripting News]

Wed, 14 Mar 2001 02:10:43 GMT

Eazel: The Honeymoon's Over [Slashdot]

Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:45:04 GMT

This is very interesting. There are more and more Manila sites created by .NET developers. Here's another one. They're all interesting. I wonder if they know that every Manila site has a SOAP interface and therefore can be controlled by .NET? How do you do glue for .NET? Our WSDL file is in limbo right now, waiting for Jake to make some changes. How do we bootstrap this?? [Scripting News]

Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:16:58 GMT

New RSS Feeds from Java Boutique. We're happy to announce the birth of two new RSS feeds from Java Boutique. Weighing in at 4.9K and growing, they are welcome additions to our growing family of internet.com newsfeeds. Take your choice between applets or articles. 0313

Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:05:30 GMT

Edd Dumbill: "Clark, the technical lead for XML 1.0 and author of influential XML open source software, noted that he was reluctant to hurt the feelings of the XML Schema Working Group, but then expressed his view that the XML Schema effort was 'little short of a disaster.'"

Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:49:07 GMT

Interview: Dave Winer on Radio Userland. We interview Dave Winer, founder of UserLand Software, about his newest creation, Radio Userland. Thirteen years in the making, Radio Userland puts an industrial strength Web server on your desktop. Designed to be extended by developers, Radio will also appeal to the masses with its news aggregator and weblog features. By Andy King. 0312

Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:01:26 GMT

Mark Watson: "I may be too optimistic, but I do believe that the SOAP platform will transcend the Microsoft-only world of Windows and will provide a universal platform for building web based applications and platform independent clients."

Sun, 11 Mar 2001 04:26:40 GMT

It's been a few days since I added a song to the Grateful Dead channel. Now that there are all these new Radio users, many of whom are tuned into this channel (it's #16 on the hotlist of upstreaming Radio users, there's no way of knowing how many non-upstreaming users are subscribing, have to do something about this..). Anyway, tonight's song is a live version of Weather Report Suite from Dick's Picks Volume 7. It's wistful music. Of course a beautiful song, oft-quoted here on Scripting News. A little change, the wind and rain.

Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:41:16 GMT

DizzyD talks about Jabber as middleware. As I understand it, we could use Jabber to transport XML-RPC and SOAP messages. Instead of sending a procedure call to an IP address, or domain name, you'd send it to a Jabber user. This would allow us to design groupware applications that reach any desktop Jabber can get to, and it would allow you to move around. (You'd have to have the groupware software on every machine, though.)

Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:03:44 GMT

Simon Fell: "So, following all the fuss on the SOAP list over WSDL, I thought I'd have another look at the current WSDL tools, to see if they've improved at all since last time I looked, here's a brief summary of what I found."

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:59:20 GMT

Michael Neumann: XML-RPC for Ruby.

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:54:32 GMT

Well, it looks like everything got published. Cool. I'm going to release it. Wish me luck! ";->"

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:53:11 GMT

OK, it sure came back a lot faster. Now let's see if everything got published. For that I have to look on the Events page to see what got uploaded. Back in a minute or so.

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:52:29 GMT

This is a test. I am going to publish this to my blog and route it to my Radio UserLand channel. The difference is that all the uploading will happen in a thread running in the background, so the page will reload a lot faster than it would if I had to wait for the FTPing to finish. Let's see if it works.

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:05:52 GMT

BTW, did you notice the product shot near the top of the page? We had some fun. Radio doesn't actually come in a box. But we wanted to imagine what it would look like if it did.

Fri, 09 Mar 2001 22:58:27 GMT

Benjamin Franklin: "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worthy reading, or do things worth the writing."

Fri, 09 Mar 2001 21:03:20 GMT

Important but small changes in the ManilaRPC interface, remove the requirement for base64 encoding and decoding in client apps.

Fri, 09 Mar 2001 21:02:48 GMT

Some have asked What About Frontier? Oh yes, we have major new stuff in Frontier 7, that's next on the plate. No change in price. Frontier is the server for huge numbers of Manila sites. Radio is a desktop tool. We've been talking about the "workstation product" for a few years. That's Radio. It's for people. Frontier is for big groups of people. They work together well, by design.

Fri, 09 Mar 2001 21:02:18 GMT

Tip for Radio newbies. If you want your channel choices to be reflected in the Top 100, you must turn on upstreaming.

Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:48:30 GMT

DJ Adams: "In this article, I'd like to show you how easy it is to put together a simple system for pager-style notification of incoming mail, using some standard tools, Perl and, of course, Jabber."

Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:47:38 GMT

Globe and Mail: "A 21-year-old Canadian Web entrepreneur is planning to circumvent the imminent demise of Napster Inc.'s controversial Internet song-trading system by setting up a clone of the service on a so-called 'data haven' platform off the coast of Britain."

Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:40:06 GMT

Microsoft: SOAP Toolkit Beta 2.0.

Thu, 08 Mar 2001 20:50:15 GMT

Intuit is operating an XML-over-HTTP programmable database called QuickBase. It's free. Interesting.

Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:04:34 GMT

IBM: Getting Started with XML-RPC in Perl.

Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:17:39 GMT

Napster Pelted with Lawsuits. No sooner had the ink dried on Judge Marilyn Hall Patel's injunction Monday than Napster is slammed with lawsuits.

Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:17:02 GMT

A frequently asked question. What's the connection between SOAP and Jabber? It would be great to get a comparative review of these technologies by someone who's knows XML. Could Jabber have a SOAP or XML-RPC interface? If so, what would it look like? Does it make sense from the Jabber developer point of view? What would be the win? I don't have time to dig into this myself at this time but am interested in reading a comparison of the technologies.

Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:15:58 GMT

The world's best-kept secret. There's SOAP 1.1 support for Mozilla. Update. We now have 37 SOAP 1.1 implementations in the SoapWare directory, maintained by Paul Kulchenko. And now I don't have to count them by hand, each page on the directory says how many items it contains. A small convenience. Also each page links to its OPML source through the white-on-orange XML icon.

Tue, 06 Mar 2001 00:22:23 GMT

RFC: A Little IDL. "I decided to define a simple interface definition language in XML that's suitable for scripting environments, and see if people find holes in its functionality, or if it's useful, or something we want to do. It's little and human-readable. The goal is to have it work with scripting systems that are wired up to XML-RPC or SOAP 1.1."

Fri, 02 Mar 2001 22:02:26 GMT

Andrew Gore: Requiem for a Magazine.

Fri, 02 Mar 2001 20:07:06 GMT

News.Com: "Napster said it has created a way to screen individual file names that would likely go into effect this weekend. Potentially millions of files will be blocked at that time, Napster attorney David Boies said."

Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:29:21 GMT

Boston Globe: "Having given the world the most gorgeous desktop computer ever, Apple Computer Inc. now has matched the feat by producing a ravishing new laptop - fast, powerful, and sheathed in sexy titanium."

Thu, 01 Mar 2001 15:52:56 GMT

ActiveState: PerlEx 2.0. "Easily build and deploy Web Services that utilize SOAP."

Thu, 01 Mar 2001 12:27:02 GMT

I just reorg'd the mail-checker script, so I gotta test to see that it still works. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Hey, people say they want Word to work with the Web. Can Word send email? That would be a great idea. Simple way for people to use their favorite writing tool, and have it flow out through HTML and RSS, and connect up to SOAP. Let's get going Microsoft. No need to wait for the Big Bang.

Thu, 01 Mar 2001 12:21:01 GMT

This is a test of the mail-to-blog feature. If you see this, it worked.