Sunday, July 21, 2002

Analysis | XML alone won't cure Web security ills. It's an article of faith that security is holding up the web services show, and that's true. But we can't wish away the complexity of Kerberos, PKI (public key infrastructure) certificates, signing, encryption, and access control lists by sprinkling XML pixie dust on these technologies of trust. [Jon Udell] 12:40:31 PM

Tim O'Reilly about the Amazon Web Services API"Web .... Tim O'Reilly about the Amazon Web Services API "Web sites like Amazon and Google are applications. And Microsoft has demonstrated over and over again that a platform strategy beats an applications strategy every time. Once you have other companies building added value that relies on you, you have a kind of benign industry lock in that's a real competitive advantage." [Web Voice: internet business models and technical marketing - a blog by Olivier Travers] [bLOGical] 12:06:56 PM

Commercial Break: Why wait? Use WS-Routing & Reliable Messaging now with .... MSMQ 3.0 ?!? Innocently browsing the MSDN library I found, to my complete astonishment and mostly because I haven't really been paying attention to the Platform SDK lately, that the new Internet Messaging feature set of MSMQ 3.0 (which already shipped with XP Pro) is fully Web Service enabled and implements WS-Routing, (BizTalk-flavored, SOAP Reliable Messaging Protocol) Reliable Messaging and SOAP with attachments. Another toy to play with... [Clemens Vasters: Enterprise Development and Other Alien Abductions] 12:06:45 PM

I've branched off a whole bunch of Category pages and will start experimenting with keeping most of the content into categories so that people interested in certain things won't have to read all the other stuff in one mondo page: .NET, Science Fiction, Books, Groove, Personal and Family, XML and Web Services, Science. 11:41:39 AM

Sam Ruby: New essay: REST + SOAP. This is a must read essay. "In reality, there aren't two sides. There are at least four: Everything is a resource. Everything is a get. Everything is a message. Everything is a procedure."  10:25:37 AM

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