Sam Ruby

Essays:

Expect More

REST + SOAP

Beyond Backlinks

Google's Genius

Neuro Transmitters

Headers and Hrefs

A Gentle Introduction to SOAP

Coping with Change

Manufactured Serendipity

Dealing with Diversity

A Busy Developers Guide to WSDL 1.1

Axis/Radio Interop, Actual and Potential

To Infinity and Beyond: the Quest for SOAP Interoperability

What Object Does SOAP Access?

Sam Ruby
< It's just data >

Updated: 9/1/2002; 7:03:27 PM.

Tuesday, January 22, 2002

I'm sure that this is going to hit the tops of the charts on daypop/blogdex shortly. Seen on slashdot: AOL/TW files lawsuits against Microsoft. More coverage here, here, here, here, and here. Get some popcorn, sit back, and watch the fireworks. Me? I'm just a spectator... no way am I going to comment on this.

5:04:23 PM

Whoa! Sometime TODAY, Google changed. Instead of providing links to items that match your search requests, it provides links back to Google that they will redirect to the correct location. This presumably affects referrers and could have privacy implications. I'm not quite sure what I think about this just yet. UPDATE: they changed it back! It was repeatable with different search criteria while it lasted, but now it is gone. Something to keep an eye on...
4:51:59 PM

I guess that's all there is for Peggy Lee. Thinking about that song brings back pleasant memories of my childhood.
6:03:24 AM

Found on daypop: 10 things Google has found to be true. Sounds good to me.
5:52:44 AM

Dave Winer writes: Speaking of SOAP, and WSDL, here's something to think about. Look at the Blogger API. No IDL. How did it work? It's very broadly deployed and quite useful. It's gotten a lot of Web people excited about XML-RPC. No one has ever, as far as I know, asked for an IDL. Why?

Probably the same reason the Axis link to the left was added using vim. We are not our target audience.

BTW, it may be foolish of me to think that Web Services are for Web People, but well, I do

Dave, I guess your target audience is people like myself and Jon Udell who "have for years been in the game of dynamically generating statically-served sites". What about the hordes of unwashed masses who aren't so inclined and seem to prefer Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)? Wouldn't the world be a better place if there was some widely adopted way to describe the messages in some structured way ameanable to consumption by such tools?

4:48:18 AM