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Tuesday, 30 July 2002

XML-RPC e-mail. Would the developers of the world have any interest in using a XML-RPC based API to send and receive e-mails? XML-RPC email would be nifty, but SOAP email would rock. Using Glue and James this would take a weekend to build. 'course IMHO a bigger problem is that there are no clients for it 4:49:13 PM  comment []      Amazon offers OS X 10.2 for $79 - cool, save $AUS100 on a copy of OSX through Amazon. The only caveat? You have to know someone who is a resident in the US. My parents will do 4:47:42 PM  comment []      Sun launches J2EE certification program: This probably isn't a surprise. Basically if your application passes the Application Verification Kit (AVK), and you pay the annual licensing fee to Sun - you get a Java Verified application stamp. See the Java Verification Program for more details.  Only applications that don't target any vendor-specific extensions, but rather target just the generic J2EE specifications, will pass the Java Verification Program, the company said. I guess this means no Java Verified stamps for a lot of applications and components - many just run on one or two application servers (usually Weblogic and Webfear). This is good for vendors like us. The only downside might be the cost and the AVK. The cost? Who knows. Sticking with the usual trend of enterprise software vendors, there are no costs listed on the Sun site. I've emailed them. The AVK? I hope it has improved since it was announced at JavaOne. Back then it sucked. It only very thinly tested your application, and more amusingly you only needed 80% to pass. This is ridiculous. What use is "my application is 80% compatible"?! We wait and see... 4:23:36 PM  comment []      Dinner with the mind behind the mind of God (Google that is): What would a perfect search engine look like? we asked. "It would be the mind of God. Larry [Page] says it would know exactly what you want and give you back exactly what you need." [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog][Google Weblog] 1:23:02 AM  comment []      Charles Miller posted up his Reading List 1. I'd add to it some of my own favourites: Peopleware (team development), Rules for Revolutionaries (marketing), Batteries Included and Pour Your Heart Into It (the last two are about customer service). There are others, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. 1:12:42 AM  comment []