Read this.  Want more?  Watch this.  See the connection?  Make the connection.

  8:35:54 PM   Comment 

MicrosoftWatch [via ScriptingNews]:  Box went on to call the development of a "data-oriented language" one of the "most interesting areas for innovation in the next five years."  Pardon me while I wipe the drool off my chin.  Hopefully, this new language will have explicit support for distributed operations.  Perhaps even along the lines of what I outlined in Neurotransmitters.

Where can I sign up?

  3:17:34 PM   Comment 

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. 

The example in this essay is based on the RESTLog create news interface, modified to be compliant with the SOAP 1.1 specifications.

I can't help but note that this document shows how it is possible to answer yes to all eight questions in Paul Prescod's Slippery Soap.  It is also related to the irony that Jon Udell deemed priceless, and, of course, the REST+SOAP essay.

Let the fireworks begin.  And Joe, if the result is any forward progress at all, I promise to go back and address your questions, once the embers have died down, of course.

  1:23:10 PM   Comment