anthonyjhicks.com global network.

All this Business reading has left me feeling like I'm leaving my geek roots behind, so I photoshopped up a diagram of how all, well, some of my gadgets are currently networked together. Buffy fans will appreciate the naming convention and signifance of groupings at different locations, everyone else will just think I need to get a life. Great quote I saw the other week: "if you give all your inanimate object names, you will never be lonely" -- unknown. The diagram has several networking and peripheral exclusions, along with all my AV gear which is currently in storage but would ordinarily be plugged into SPDIF and S-VIDEO connectors on Buffy completing the network where all my gadgets are "sort of" linked together. Ah procrastination.. yes, I was REALLY bored. [anthonyjhicks.com - weblog]

Christian Nagel says that there's a good article about Web Services and the services oriented architecture over on MSDN.

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

Enterprise architects get their SOx on. Expect a plethora of SOx and SOxx acronyms, warns the latest commentary from CBDI, as vendors and analysts introduce ... [Loosely Coupled weblog]

update on rss autodiscovery.

In response to my previous entry that further explored some of the issues we face on RSS autodiscovery, Tima has posted examples of how my original mockups would look in WSIL. Looks interesting--a bit more complex, but it's a recognized standard.

It seems to me that a the main element that would have to be decided at this point is whether to go with OPML, RSS, or WSIL (the decision of "stakeholders" in this process---such as Jeremy, Dave, and others members of the community, particularly those that would either create the content or write the aggregators---being the most important IMO).

This format could be a big help in simplifying the subscription of news feeds for users. Hopefully we will be able to get it done quickly!

[java.blogs Day's Entries]

java xml pull and push: a comparison.

Yesterday Russ pointed to an article at O'Reilly's XML.com about StAX (XML Streaming API), a Java API that allows parsing of XML through a pull-mechanism, currently in the final laps of the JSR process as JSR 173. I was immediately intrigued. While many find it common to use additional APIs to solve some problems, I tend to prefer removing layers of complexity and abstraction that aren't absolutely necessary, using only JDK-standard (or standard extension) classes as much as possible. Since this API appears to be not only frozen, but also on track to be a standard extension (and hopefully it will be included in the next JDK release!), I decided to give it a try.

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Article on XML.com: 'The Semantic Web is Closer Than You Think'. Kendall Grant Clark gives an overview of what's to come on the Web. [ia/ - information architecture news]