FWIW, SOAP 1.2 doesn't claim that SOAP was ever an acronym, it just says that in SOAP 1.2, it is not. Also whether it is simple or not was not really a deciding factor simply because nobody could provide a simple definition of what simple means.
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
So does anyone have a simple definition of what simple means? Not so simple is it?
10:50:15 PM
In reference to my previous little reminiscing about the good old days: Yes, the shock suit was real. Some guy called our office at Looking Glass and said he had a suit for treating his chiropractic patients. It could deliver electrical shocks to different areas of the body, and would we want to hook it up to a game. I remember sitting next to the guy who took the call. It was rare that someone from the outside world would get through to our work area (called the pit). When James hung up the phone he said, "Do you think Eileen [our receptionist] does something like, 'oh, excuse me, are you a FREAK? let me transfer you now...'"
Where are all those weird and wacky LG people now? Well.. some of you may have heard of Seamus Blackley. A good healthy crew went over to Irrational Games. When GameFX imploded a friend of mine went out to Valve. What ever happened to Doug Church (Ion Storm??)? Sean Barret? Tom Leonard? James Flemming? Those guys are stoked!
10:41:07 PM
More good feedback from Jon Udell regarding our Groovy discussion on Radio, etc. In essence he is blogging our Groove - or something. I think that in a lot of ways my initiative will start to blur the line between public vs. private, and local data vs. remote data. For example, Jon would be able to let Radio grab his response right from our space for his Blog. But does that break the circle of trust in a Groove share space model? I might want to know that what seems like a private discussion is getting broadcast to a wider realm. This leads me to agree with Jon's statement:
I think, basically, that more people need to experience these modes and transitions, using the existing/available tools, before anybody goes too far down the road of building anything. And hopefully by the time there is more awareness on both sides -- bloggers of Groove, Groovers of blogs -- things like edge services will allow rapid and iterative development of whatever glue is needed, in a bootstrapping mode that can be used, and reacted to, in an immediate and interactive way.
9:32:03 AM
Steve Gillmor interviews Anders Hejlsberg. Anders makes a lot of good points. Gillmor mentions Edge Services in a question:
Groove Network's Ray Ozzie calls the Web Services Security specification an important step in making Edge Services a viable proposition. Is the GXA stack a requirement for rich services at the edges of the network?
Hejlsberg is my hero. When I first took a look at some of the .NET apis I thought - wow, this is what win32 programming should be like. It really reminds me of Delphi.
