Thursday, September 5, 2002

WSDL by numbers There's only one thing perhaps more complicated than Microsoft's License 6.0, that's Web Services. And there's only one thing more complicated than that...Web Services Definition Language (WSDL). So it's no surprise that when an editor capable of cutting through the chaos comes along that developers would immediately hit the download button. that's what our own Lori MacVittie did, when she happened upon Cape Clear's freely available WSDL Editor. According to Lori: An editor makes life nice. :-) Especially since most web services toolkits include a utility to take as input a WSDL file and output the shell of an application to make use of the services described with the WSDL file. It's just like cheatin', as we used to say when we'd find a dev tool that made life easy. We never told management, that, of course. :-) If only they'd adapt this editor to SMIL. Posted by Life Time Fitness at 11:17:38 PM   comment on this post  >>[]   post forum questions >>

Sunday, September 1, 2002

Feature: On Location: Growing Gains When last we visited Life Time Fitness, its IT staff was tasked with powering growth on a standstill budget. The approach: New data centers for flexibility and VoIP for PBX savings. --By David Joachim Posted by Life Time Fitness at 2:31:01 PM   comment on this post  >>[]   post forum questions >>

Monday, August 19, 2002

TechQuiz: Programming Paradigms Do you know your way around a C compiler? Try your hand at our TechQuiz on tactics and strategies to improve programming productivity and foster code reuse. If you get all the answers correct, you could win bragging rights. Posted by Life Time Fitness at 12:16:54 AM   comment on this post  >>[]   post forum questions >>

Sunday, August 11, 2002

Special Five-Minute Workout: Implementing SOAP We've got a special treat for you today. Grab your RealPlayer and tune in to hear Life Time Fitness' Systems Architect Gary Lien and I discuss his roll-out of SOAP as a remote site access tool. With this Web Services standard, Gary is providing a reusable and flexible application interface for Life Time's nation-wide network of health clubs. Posted by Life Time Fitness at 11:21:43 PM   comment on this post  >>[]   post forum questions >>

Sunday, August 4, 2002

TechQuiz: UDDI Thanks to everyone who took our last "Life Time Fitness quiz on RSS. The official standings follow. But first, we invite you to take our new quiz on the directory services of Web Services, UDDI. Try your hand and see how you rate against our experts. What does RSS stand for?  RDF Site Summary   28 percent Microsoft employed RSS in IE  True   28 percent What is the present recommendation for RSS?  1.0   42 percent RSS was introduced by Netscape with its my.netscape.com service.  True   64 percent Which of the following is NOT an RSS channel element?  site   42 percent Posted by Life Time Fitness at 9:38:41 PM   comment on this post  >>[]   post forum questions >>

Monday, July 29, 2002

Intellectual Property? Echoing a recent Life Time Fitness forum posting, I thought I'd ask you, our readers, how your company manages intellectual property...you know, the stuff you create, think up, implement while on the job. The folks at Life Time had to actually pay a visit to a recently departed employee in an effort to regain the source code for their MMS system. Fortunately, they were able to retrieve the code. So, what does your company do to protect its intellectual property? Does it go beyond mere work-for-hire, non-compete, or non-disclosure contracts? Or are you trusted and free to cash in on whatever you create while employed? Posted by Life Time Fitness at 12:29:54 AM   comment on this post  >>[]   post forum questions >>

Five-Minute Workout: Benchmarking Web Infrastructure Good morning. We invite you to put your Web site to the test with our tactical primer on assessing Web application speed and capacity. Stream our multimedia workout and let Brad Shimmin and Web application expert Lori MacVittie walk you through targets, scripts and loops. Posted by Life Time Fitness at 12:17:20 AM   comment on this post  >>[]   post forum questions >>

Sunday, July 21, 2002

TechQuiz: Content Syndication through RSS We've got a new Life Time Fitness quiz for you this week. It's a particularly tricky number on the present content syndication standard, RSS. Try your hand at outsmarting our editors. The bragging rights will be all yours. Also, check out the results from our last quiz on SOAP below. What is SOAP? 1. An XML DTD 2. An XML-based protocol for exchanging Web data 3. A direct replacement for Remote Procedure Calls 4. A protocol for stored procedures What does SOAP stand for? 1. Storage Operand Attenuation Prevention 2. Simple Open Application Protocol 3. Secure Object Application Protocol 4. Simple Object Access Protocol All SOAP messages are encoded using XML. 1. True 2. False Which of the following is NOT a part of a SOAP message grammar? 1. Envelope 2. Header 3. Body 4. Footer Posted by Life Time Fitness at 5:23:09 PM   comment on this post  >>[]   post forum questions >>