Archive for January, 1970
Michael Sparks recently provided a follow-up to a post I made to the Kamaelia list regarding my most recent Kamaelia-related post here on this blog. There is TONS and TONS of *EXTREMELY* valuable information contained in what amounts to about...
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Link Attribution Lineage : Dare Obasanjo --- Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Web 2.0 Thinking Game If we're stuck with this meaningless Web 2.0 label, let's at least have some fun with it. Here's my new game. I'll start, you finish:...
SOA: It’s the Business that Matters
I recently published an article in Enterprise Systems Journal on the subject of SOA and meeting the needs of business. It's called "SOA: Its the Business that Matters">/a> and can be found at http://www.esj.com/enterprise/article.aspx?EditorialsID=2216 Dave ...
ESB-CON II is now available for replay
The ESB-CON II virtual conference that I wrote about here is now available for replay. To recap, ESB-CON II features descriptions and case studies of SOA projects that are based on experience with actual ESB deployments in Fortune 1000 companies....
Dear Stanley B. Lippman (A Rebuttal to “Is Programming An Art?”)
{ End Bracket }: Is Programming an Art? -- MSDN Magazine, October 2006 "The reason we say programming remains an art, not a science or an engineering discipline, is because we haven't as yet been able to break it down...
[Seo Sanghyeon:IPCE] IronPython Community Edition r3 Now Available!
Seo Sanghyeon has been kickin' some tail end (yet again!), the result of which is the r3 release of IronPython Community Edition (IPCE). While I would normally post this to my Windows DevCenter blog, there are some specific additions to...
[IE7:Blog] Attention WebDev Types : If You Explicitly Use MSXML5, *PLEASE READ THIS*
IEBlog : MSXML5...Not in This IE Some of you may have noticed the following goldbar on some websites: Our friend Adam on the XML team recently posted on the XML Team's Blog about MSXML versioning. It's a great read and...
[ERH:X-Rant] How To Kill An XML Standard 101
Mokka mit Schlag � Chameleon schemas considered harmful This is not how namespaces are designed to work, and it's going to cause massive problems for anyone writing any sort of software to process XForms, whether it's DOM, SAX. XSLT, XPath,...
Developing an OpenLaszlo App
[MSFT:IE7] On Security, Compatibility, Extensibility, Community, and Open Source Syndication
IEBlog : SSL, TLS and a Little ActiveX: How IE7 Strikes a Balance Between Security and Compatibility Obsolete controls disabled through ActiveX opt-in An important part of the ActiveX opt-in feature is doing good housekeeping of the ActiveX controls that...
[Kamaelia:Development] Old School Collaboration Meets New School Communication; Decentralized Development Done Right
Firstly, Sylvain Hellegouarch continues to astound me with his dedication to each of the projects we are working on together, as well as his ability to get stuff done. I'll avoid making a list of all that he does, as...
Mobile 2.0 event on November 6 in San Francisco
The one-day-only mobile2.0 conference, November 6 at the San Francisco Grand Hyatt, focuses on "topics like the growth of the mobile Web / mobile Internet, open services, media sharing on the mobile, mobile widgets, mobile Ajax, content adaptation and...
[MSN:SoapBox] First Look :: David Spade Does (iN) The iPod
Got my invitation a few hours ago for MSN (or is it Windows Live? Seems like its branded MSN) SoapBox. I can't link to the video on SoapBox and expect that everyone will be able to view it until such...
Final Drafts of Ecma Office Open XML available
Brian Jones has announced the availability of the final drafts of Ecma Office Open XML. Once Ecma endorses it, as seems 100% likely, this is the standard that will be hot-footed to ISO for fast tracking. I think it is...
RELAX NG Compact schemas for Ecma Office Open XML
In talking with Jean Paoli of Microsoft a few months ago about ISO standardization, he asked what kinds of changes would be needed to make OOX acceptable to ISO members. Of course, I cannot speak on any of their behalf,...
Three ways of writing XML transformation programs
I made three prototype implementations of the Topologi XSD to RELAX NG Compact Syntax translator, before adopting a particular one. First, I used Topologi's high-level inhouse Java library for XSD, which we use on other products. I looked at converting...
Service Reuse - Fact or Fiction?
I have been intently following a blog thread that was initially started by the "Other" David Chappell. David's initial posting SOA and the Reality of Reuse sparked a small flurry of responses, and responses to responses, which also include Joel...
Introducing OpenLaszlo
Article on Web Services Management
There's a great article in Baseline Magazine on the current state of adoption of Web Services Management platforms. It includes several case studies and references of organizations that are using them to govern their SOA deployments. One such case study...
On LLUP, Blip Messaging, Kamaelia, and Michael Sparks [BBC]
I was in Seattle all week and as such, am just getting caught up on things outside the scope of my trip. I did have a chance to chat with a somewhat excited Sylvain on Tuesday morning who had been...







