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Monday, April 01, 2002 |
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Java, XML, and Web Services
Analysis | Java, XML, Web Services. Java may have arrived late to the Web services party, but the music hasn't really started yet. When it does, nobody will remember who shipped what kind of XML parser for which programming language on what date. We'll all be too busy figuring out how to piece together a much larger puzzle. [Jon Udell]
10:05:06 PM 
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Early adopters reflect on .NET
Analysis | Early adopters reflect on .NET. The recent launch of Visual Studio .Net and .Net Framework was anticlimactic for some developers who had already deployed applications and Web services based on these technologies. As the early adopters now reflect on their experiences, there is remarkable consensus about the value of what Microsoft Corp. has achieved and the obstacles that still lie ahead. [Jon Udell]
10:04:34 PM
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Working with XSLT
Column | XSLT explorations. I continue to think that the fullest realization of the web services architecture will be a peer-to-peer network whose nodes are consumers, transformers, and producers of XML. Distributing the transformative power throughout the network seems an obvious and inevitable next step. [Jon Udell]
10:03:49 PM
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Storytelling in the era of postliterate publishing
The future of literate storytelling looks bleak to the NY Times:
Magazines Push Images Over Words. As more magazines default to a visual rather than literary palette, the 4,000-word article has become a relic. By David Carr. [New York Times: Business]
From the story:
The assumption is that readers raised on a media diet in which they are presented with a new image every few tenths of a second are not about to wait 3,400 words for the upshot. The glossy publishing industry will continue to serve as the back fence for mass culture. But in these days of postliterate publishing, few in the neighborhood seem to have time to stop and tell stories.
Funny. The future of literate storytelling has never looked brighter to me. I can't say the same for the future of the glossy publishing industry, though.
11:17:26 AM
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XML::Simpler released to CPAN
Grant McClean has made the popular XML::Simple even simpler. From the XML::Simpler documentation:
The data structures returned by XMLin() have been vastly simplified. All hashrefs and arrayrefs have been eliminated, and instead the contents of the XML file are represented using a single scalar value which perfectly preserves the fidelity of the original document. In fact the format of this data structure is so intuitive that new users will be able to work with it immediately without reading the documentation.
Thanks, Grant!
11:05:19 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Jon Udell.
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