Thursday, June 06, 2002

Steve Zellers: "The problem I have with SOAP and web services right now is that too much is being shoehorned into what should be a fairly trivial spec. We should be done by now, but we never will be because the cost to implement the spec will be too great." [Scripting News] - Yeah but who is listening? Every software vendor in the US is on the "Peace Love and Web Services" train. And as far as Bosworth goes, he has been humming the same tune for over five years now. I actually like it. Probably because I have seen how a message based system (using MSMQ) worked really well in an application I had dealt with. It gave me a sort of a taste of message based web services - sort of.   7:27:29 PM     news.telegraph: "India plans war within 2 weeks " - lets hope it doesn't get that far. 7:26:04 PM     CSS: Mark Newhouse has a nice article on the promise/hype and reality of Cascading Style Sheets. 7:21:30 PM     TallComponents: Need a 100% managed code way to spool out a PDF file on the fly ? Check out TallPDF. This is interesting because I haven't seen any complete NET solution that does PDF's. It seems that at the moment people wrap the Adobe Forms Toolkit or worse, in the case of activePDF they are talking about wrapping COM DLL's and OCX's. Unbelievable. So a 100% managed solution is a very good thing. 7:05:43 PM     This morning, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of myself and four other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against a group of media companies which had themselves sued Sonic Blue, Inc., and ReplayTV, Inc. [GlennLog] 6:36:49 PM     Oracle, Red Hat and Dell Team Up on Linux Project [NyTimes - Technology] 7:37:32 AM     NY Times: Touching story. Maasai in Africa received the news of 9/11 very late. No concept about skyscrapers but lots of heart, the Maasai donated cows (one of their most priced posessions) to the relieve effort. Amazing how people care! How to Thank Kenya for 9/11 Cows. A Masai tribesman who returned from his U.S. studies recently explained what happened on Sept. 11. In response, the tribe donated highly prized cows to the people of the United States. Now there's a website to express thanks. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 7:34:59 AM     Dead Men Tell No Passwords. The man in charge of some of Norway's most precious electronic documents died without divulging the way to access them. A plea to hackers to help crack the system is out. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 7:34:40 AM     Microsoft plans Web services security push. The software maker will announce plans Thursday for technology that will allow businesses to authenticate user identities between companies and applications using Web services standards. [CNET News.com] [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog] 7:33:04 AM     The classes in the .Net Framework cryptography namespace manage many details of cryptography for you. Here is a good introduction. [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog] 7:32:47 AM

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