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Tuesday, July 02, 2002Sam Ruby: Paul Kulchenko has started a blog. He definitely needs to add a coffee cup. Done.
Posted @ 9:41:47 PM ( comments)
CNN: 'Star Trek' teleporter nearer reality. "What the team at the Australian National University have managed to achieve is to take apart an encrypted laser beam and simultaneously rebuild a replica one meter away." [snellspace] Oh, the possibilities! Posted @ 9:27:40 PM ( comments)
Mike Deem: "We (meaning the SOAP community as embodied on soapbuilders) have done a damn fine job working around and within these specifications to deliver an amazingly interoperable cross platform messaging infrastructure. It is an accomplishment that ranks very high on the all time list of truly wonderful things that have happened with computers. We should be very proud of this." Amen. Posted to services @ 9:00:49 PM ( comments)
Interesting. I can see posts from Sam's blog in my news aggregator (updated 7/2/02; 5:41:55 PM), but don't see anything on his weblog (updated 7/2/2002; 2:54:55 PM). Posted @ 8:55:35 PM ( comments)
Daniel Savareze: The Right SOAP. "Why are so many programmers having a hard time getting their arms around Web services?" Posted to services @ 8:52:45 PM ( comments)
Collaboration. "If you want people to talk, giving them the technology to do so is necessary but not sufficient. You also have to ensure that talking is a safe activity for them. That means controlling it as little as possible. That means tolerating—dare I say, heeding and understanding?—well-expressed dissent. That means accepting that sometimes we all say the wrong thing to the wrong people at the wrong time." [Caveat Lector] Posted @ 8:28:41 PM ( comments)
John Udell: Work narration and wanker management. "Narration of work will increasingly become an imperative. Management can and should try to make sure that this happens. The most clueful knowledge workers will simply choose to narrate their work, because it makes the work more interesting and rewarding. The most clueful management will encourage and reward this behavior." Posted @ 8:21:36 PM ( comments)
Jon Udell: Web services security and XML pixie dust. "Are we just trying to XMLize Kerberos and PKI and ACLs because we hope the magic pixie dust of XML will make the pain go away?" Posted to xml @ 8:13:34 PM ( comments)
James Snell: "Disagreements magnify over email. Be extremely careful of your word choice. Don't assume that everyone on the copy to list will understand the context of a statement or an objection. Keep the copy to list small. Realize that email while email is essential to the remote employees existence, for regular employees it tends to be a distraction so they read it as little as possible. I've found that email is an extremely inefficient tool to accomplish anything. Pick up the phone." Wholeheartly agree. The only drawback is that sometimes phone is even more inefficient than email, but you never know before you make a call. Posted @ 8:10:33 PM ( comments)
John Udell: Glue, Gaia, and the services grid. "As every user of Glue knows, Graham [Glass, the wizard behind The Mind Electric] is more than a brilliant software engineer. He has an even rarer talent for simplicity. In Glue, as Larry Wall says of Perl, "easy things are easy, and hard things are possible." That's why I think of Glue as the SOAP::Lite of Java. The easy thing that Glue makes easy is the basic web services stack. The hard thing that Gaia makes possible is a grid fabric which, though intended first for web services, has more general possibilities." Hm, "Glue as the SOAP::Lite of Java". I like that. Thanks, John. Agree with everything you said about Graham and Glue. Glue is super simple and easy to use. Sometimes it's even simpler than SOAP::Lite ;). Kudos Graham! Posted to architecture, services @ 6:09:14 PM ( comments)
webservice.org: Why doesn't EDi just die already? "Web services will have a tougher job convincing businesses to switch from EDI, because of their relative novelty, but you see the pieces starting to come together to prove their stability, reliability, and staying power. ...Both Web services and ebXML can offer businesses something EDI cannot, and that's flexibility. EDI transactions generally work from implementation guidelines that specify fixed message formats. That works fine, as long as you keep within your supply chain and have stable content. But business today does not always have that kind of predictability, and EDI transactions has been found difficult to map from one industry to another, and even between different segments of the same industry." Posted to services, xml @ 6:01:07 PM ( comments)
It's time for ICANN to go. John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek, explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken. "... SAIC made billions of dollars out of spending $3 million and pulling a few strings to keep the monopoly alive." [Salon.com] Posted @ 5:08:28 PM ( comments)
Updated 8/22/2002; 5:24:10 PM
