Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Hmm.  I wonder if this might have anything to do with the continuing economic uncertainty, and if they accounted for the fact that people are less willing to spend in general these days when they did their survey... comment [] 2:06:10 AM

Still playing around with my pre-wiped-out content - I found the actual stuff in the rss.xml file, so I cut and pasted the older entries into the current file, but that doesn't seem to have made the server notice the old content yet.  Back to the drawing board... comment [] 1:16:49 AM

Well, I managed to get some of my content back by manually copying the files from my work machine's radio hierarchy to my home machine, and then using the "publish" command.  I haven't yet figured out how to get my archived entries from the 22nd to appear (i.e. make the calendar light up with a link to them), but at least my bio and navigation links are back.  I'll have to research best practices about how to use radio from multiple machines. The conference was fun today, although I didn't spend a whole lot of time there.  I spent a bunch of the afternoon trying to get the JAX-RPC test suite up and running on my home machine, which was unduly complicated by my trying to do so from within cygwin (classpath / filename issues, etc).  I've made a lot more progress tonight, but still am not quite there yet. The panel discussion was fun, but didn't really say anything much new.  Richard Solely is a very funny man, though, in addition to being sharp as a tack.  He made a lot of good arguments that just about everything in Web Services has been done before (hm, I wonder by whom...), and kept stressing the point that this will happen again.  There will be yet another round of standards (perhaps in 18 months, no less!), so rather than rewriting everything, sez he, for the umpteenth time, why don't we learn to express semantics and structure in machine-readable ways (again, guess what OMG is working on in its spec toolbox :))?  Then compilers can do the work of turning our models and descriptions into software frameworks so we can describe what really matters about our applications.  I think there is a lot of merit to this position, and it meshes nicely with some of the better architectural ideas I've heard burbling through the W3C Web Services Architecture Group.  More on that stuff in an essay later. So in addition to the panel, I ran into Sim Simeonov, a friend and ex-coworker (he's trying his hand at venture capitalism these days), and Andy Hagel, someone I used to work with back at Lexis-Nexis / Reed-Elsevier.  Also saw Anne Thomas Manes, Toufic Boubez, Chris Ferris, and other familiar faces. A bunch of folks are going out to dinner on Wednesday night, which should be a blast, I think.  Being amongst people on the cutting edge of a technological constellation as amorphous, overhyped, and full of real potential as Web Services seem to be makes for some fun socializing! comment [] 1:10:44 AM

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